Maternal and Child Health

prenatal.

SPHHP faculty are studying the impacts of health disparities as early as the prenatal period. Examples include environmental and social stressors, preterm/low birth weight, infectious disease and malnutrition of children under 5 years.

Division of Environmental Health Sciences

The multidisciplinary Division of Environmental Health Sciences brings together students and faculty from across UB to integrate perspectives from a wide range of research areas.

Researcher Spotlight

Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, principal investigator of UB’s Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Center, discusses the significance of the WHI, one of the longest and most comprehensive studies ever done on postmenopausal women.