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Sarahmona Przybyla

PhD, MPH

Sarahmona Przybyla.

Sarahmona Przybyla

PhD, MPH

Sarahmona Przybyla

PhD, MPH

Assistant Dean, Director of Undergraduate Public Health Programs
School of Public Health and Health Professions
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Community Health and Health Behavior
School of Public Health and Health Professions

Research Topics

Primary and secondary prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; impact of substance use on sexual risk behavior and medication adherence; nonmedical prescription drug use; patient-provider communication; and community-based participatory research.

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  • SPHHP Faculty and Alumni Work to Reduce N.Y.’s High Rate of COVID-19 Cases, Deaths
    6/1/20

    Public Health program faculty and alumni have joined the New York State Department of Health to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the state, which are the highest in the nation.

  • Students and faculty from all five SPHHP departments garner prestigious accolades
    4/26/24

    A testament to the School of Public Health and Health Professions' exceptional dedication to research, academia and service, faculty and students from all five departments have recently been awarded distinctions for their work.

  • With pandemic looming large, UB public health school sees significant increase in applications
    3/8/21

    Undergraduate applications to the School of Public Health and Health Professions have jumped by 70% over last year.

  • UB receives $1.3 million to train next generation of public health workforce
    10/17/22

    Funding from Health Resources and Services Administration will provide scholarships for graduate students from underrepresented groups.

  • UB partners with South African, Zimbabwean universities to battle tuberculosis, HIV
    3/26/18

    To help fight the tuberculosis and HIV epidemics facing the world, the UB Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences will partner with the University of the Western Cape and University of Zimbabwe.

  • ‘Putting prevention in their pockets’
    8/23/16

    UB developed smartphone app for people living with HIV may help lead to faster intervention in cases where substance use — or life in general — get in the way of antiretroviral therapy adherence.

  • Opioid crisis: UB researcher hopes to provide clues on women’s shift to heroin
    10/31/18

    Study funded by University of Rochester Center for AIDS Research is part of a concerted strategy to improve substance use disorder outcomes and decrease HIV infections.

  • Providers split on who should prescribe HIV prevention drug
    4/30/19

    UB researcher also authored first paper to survey pharmacy students about their knowledge of and attitudes toward pre-exposure prophylaxis.

  • UB scholar honored as ‘innovator in the field of HIV prevention research’
    12/1/20

    Sarahmona Przybyla received a Special Recognition Award from NYS Health Commissioner Howard Zucker during World AIDS Day summit.

  • SPHHP announces new leadership roles
    5/23/19

    Four faculty and staff members — all women — are taking on new leadership roles in the School of Public Health and Health Professions.

  • Incarceration through a public health lens
    1/18/19

    A seed grant from the Incarceration and Public Health Action Network will support a new course in the School of Public Health and Health Professions.

  • A Rx for PrEP's success
    5/25/17

    SPHHP's Przybyla received two grants to examine barriers to usage of the HIV drug regimen and a less invasive way to measure adherence.