Latest SPHHP News

  • Distribution Divas take annual high school stats competition
    6/27/25
    Social media, energy drinks and AI detectors were just some of the statistical topics presented at this year’s UB Statistics Program Competition funded by UB’s Department of Biostatistics and the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. 
  • 2025 SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Three SPHHP Colleagues
    6/20/25
    Three colleagues from the School of Public Health and Health Professions have been named recipients of the 2024 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. The award acknowledges and provides system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
  • 2025 SPHHP Student Awards Honor Achievement
    6/6/25
    The School of Public Health and Health Professions recently held its Ninth Annual Student Awards Reception, which celebrates the accomplishments of hardworking students across all five departments.
  • Making connections
    6/5/25

    A special "belonging" initiative in the School of Public Health and Health Professions aims to connect undergraduates with faculty and each other.

  • UB Step Challenge crushes goals
    6/2/25

    The UB and WNY communities stepped it up for the fitness challenge's 10th anniversary, surpassing last year's total steps by more than 460 million steps.

  • SPHHP faculty-staff awards highlight annual meeting
    5/27/25
    The University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions announced the recipients of its 2024-2025 awards during the school’s annual meeting in May. The award recipients have been chosen for their outstanding dedication and service to the school in scholarship, community engagement and professional duties.
  • Four first-gen students share stories of triumph following commencement
    5/23/25

    About one-third of undergraduates at the University at Buffalo are the first in their family to attend college. They radiate determination and ambition, and they inspire others to pursue higher education as a path toward upward mobility. 

  • Study links maternal health risks during pregnancy to higher blood pressure in children
    5/22/25
    Children born to mothers with obesity, a form of diabetes that develops during pregnancy (gestational diabetes mellitus) or high blood pressure during pregnancy have higher blood pressure — both the top and bottom numbers — than children born to mothers without these risk factors, according to a new study.
  • Studies point to redlining as a ‘perfect storm’ for breast cancer
    5/12/25

    New UB-led research indicates that while the residential segregation policy was outlawed decades ago, it still impacts women’s health today.

  • Millen named inaugural American Society for Nutrition fellow
    5/12/25

    Amy Millen, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, has been selected for the inaugural group of Excellence in Nutrition Fellows of the American Society for Nutrition.