Latest SPHHP News

  • Lucia Leone on Closing the Food Gap
    3/3/26
    Lucia Leone’s interest in nutrition began in childhood, as she watched her mother—without a car and on a limited income—still manage to put healthy meals on the table. Now an associate professor of community health and health behavior at UB, Leone studies how to make nutritious eating achievable for families facing similar barriers. In this episode, she joins host David Hill to explain why simply expanding access to food is not enough to ensure nutrition security. She discusses community-based interventions like mobile produce vans and food prescription programs, and what her research reveals about why some efforts succeed while others fall short. She also challenges misconceptions about SNAP and the people it serves, and examines what it will take at the societal level to close the food gap for good.
  • UB health sciences schools fare well in national ranking of NIH funding
    2/25/26

    Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research rankings measure schools of medicine across the country, as well as their departments and other health sciences schools, such as dentistry, pharmacy, public health and nursing.

  • AI may help clinicians choose best path for patients missing permanent teeth
    2/24/26

    UB’s orthodontics chair leads recently published study using accurate algorithms.

  • Study: For women over 60, muscle strength matters
    2/18/26

    Researchers report in JAMA Network Open that muscle strength is associated with significantly lower risk of death over eight-year follow-up.

  • Physical Therapy Month revitalized under UB’s DPT Club
    2/18/26
    Physical therapists, and future PT practitioners, across the country spent the month of October celebrating their profession.
  • Could swapping a cold one for a cannabis beverage help people drink less?
    1/26/26

    New UB research suggests using cannabis beverages as a substitute for alcohol could be a novel harm reduction strategy.

  • Northeast College and UB announce new educational partnership
    1/15/26

    Students will advance to Northeast’s Doctor of Chiropractic program, allowing them to reduce overall time to degree completion.

  • Understanding how telomere length affects disease risk later in life
    1/9/26

    Five-year NIH-funded study will examine how early-life factors such as growth patterns and exposure to air pollution affect an important marker of biological aging from birth to young adulthood.

  • 2025: A look back at UB’s research and creative activities
    12/18/25

    From bird flu vaccines to Grammy-winning musical compositions, UB scholars are dedicated to creating a safer, healthier and brighter future.

  • Binge drinking and cannabis use among 12th graders
    12/10/25

    Smoking, vaping and dabbing all were associated with any past two-week binge drinking occurrence among high school seniors who used two or more cannabis products.