Heather Orom

PhD

Heather Orom

PhD

Heather Orom

PhD

Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Associate Professor

Department of Community Health and Health Behavior

School of Public Health and Health Professions

Research Topics

Illness risk perception, including uncertainty about risk perception and its implication for health behavior and risk perception measurement; determinants and consequences of health information avoidance and reducing health information avoidance; health equity, with a focus on health care equity.

Contact Information

Buffalo NY, 14214

Phone: (716) 829-6682

Fax: (716) 829-6040

horom@buffalo.edu

Faculty Links

UB News

UB team receives grant to study hospital complications in children with special health care needs
11/18/24
Researchers will interview parents and caregivers to learn about their experiences.
Study suggests humor could help people engage with colorectal cancer information
9/18/24
Researchers were surprised by their findings, which provide new information on health information avoidance.
UB to offer Indigenous health disparities course this spring
1/15/21
Public health course will explore the social determinants of health, intergenerational trauma, health equity, and racism and health.
Study: For men with prostate cancer, emotional distress may lead to more aggressive treatment
1/11/17
Study of more than 1,500 men highlights need to make treatment decisions as informed and supported as possible, researchers say.
Study: For patients with prostate cancer, dysfunction due to treatment side effects results in increased emotional distress – and vice versa
5/31/18
Researchers investigated whether urinary, sexual and bowel dysfunction contributes to emotional distress during the first two years after treatment, and whether distress may in turn further decrease function.
New UB institute to address health disparities in Buffalo
12/12/19
Community Health Equity Research Institute brings together community partners and faculty, students from 10 UB schools to improve health of underserved neighborhoods.
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.

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Affiliated Faculty

Department of Community Health and Health Behavior
9/10/26
Faculty study the factors that influence health behavior choices and the role of the community in public health problems and solutions.
Department of Rehabilitation Science
9/10/26
Faculty study the practice and care that seeks to restore, improve or extend capabilities that people have lost or never fully developed, because of injury, disease, age or disability.
Department of Biostatistics
9/10/26
Faculty apply statistical techniques to scientific research in health-related fields.
Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
9/10/26
Faculty focus on understanding the determinants and prevention of disease, on the role of environmental factors in health and disease and on the administration of health programs to implement that understanding.
Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
9/10/26
Faculty study how exercise and nutrition influence health, disease prevention and individual function and performance.