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The School of Public Health and Health Professions recently announced its Annual Student Awards program. The awards celebrate and recognize the admirable accomplishments of hardworking students across all five departments.

UB’s Global Health Day Symposium brought together experts from WHO, NIH and UB to discuss the next stages of response to the pandemic.

Study is the first to examine law enforcement deaths from COVID-19 on a national level, demonstrating the widespread risk from COVID that officers face in their work.

Rehabilitation psychologist Marcia J. Scherer says finding the right fit and knowing the user are the keys to truly helpful assistive technology.

Zuo-Feng Zhang discussed COVID-19 and non-communicable disease epidemiology.

SPHHP AT students are academic athletes!

Presentations and honors take place at annual OT conference.

The institute has designated four new focus areas, with proposal support, shared instrumentation and other resources available to UB researchers.

On June 4, Drew Weissman will visit UB to tell the truly amazing story of how he and his research partner co-developed the mRNA technology that made the COVID-19 vaccines possible.

An MPH/MBA student and two School of Management alumni won UB's Henry A. Panasci Jr. Technology Entrepreneurship Competition for their company, Team Real Talk Inc.

The designation by the American Epidemiological Society recognizes the UB faculty member for her work in perinatal and reproductive epidemiology.

Research on postmenopausal women identifies associations between commonly eaten foods and the diversity and composition of oral bacteria.

More than a dozen professional schools and programs rose in the latest rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.

R. Lorraine Collins, Luis Colón, Steven Schwaitzberg and Gil Wolfe have been promoted to the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.

The focus of this year’s conference — the first being hosted by UB — is on how the statistical sciences serve as a foundation for knowledge, discovery and innovation.

The award will support Kexin Zhu's research on the impact of outdoor temperature and air pollution on blood pressure levels and hypertension.  

This is the fourth year for the summit, which brings together mobile produce market operators, researchers and funders from around the country.

The UB-led study is the first to prospectively examine the association between oral bacteria and developing hypertension.

The Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent awards support research and professional development, and supplements stipends.

Health professionals should strive to improve access to compassionate, evidence-based and patient-centered care in order to fight weight stigma and end diet culture.

This increase in loneliness and loss of social connections — which the research team called a “silent epidemic” — has resulted in worsening mental health.

UB researcher is also recruiting kids and teens ages 8-17 for a Buffalo-based study examining the effects of concussion in children.

Funding will support a Mobile market Coalition, Mobile Market Summit, training center expansion and the creation of regional mobile market networks.

The research explores how the impact of known risk factors for lung and bronchus cancer mortality varies spatially across the U.S.

The team leading interprofessional education at UB has been recognized by the National Academies of Practice with the Interprofessional Group Recognition Award.

UB public health students are working with Peaceprints to help previously incarcerated people re-enter the community.

Working with community partners in the City of Buffalo and Grassroots Gardens of WNY, UB researchers are leading a HUD-funded project examining the merits of mycelium-based soil remediation, while educating the public about the potential hazards of lead-contaminated soil.

In partnership with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, 200 medical and dietetics students participated earlier this month in a two-week intersession with a “Food as Medicine” focus.

UB alumnus Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD, PhD, has been named to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

For Natalie Barnhard and her dream of opening a recovery center for people who have a spinal cord injury, all the right puzzle pieces fell into place at the right time.

First-of-its-kind research with an industry partner comes when many states are restricting delta-8-THC while legalizing the more potent delta-9.

Largest study of delta-8-THC consumers to date comes at a time when many states are restricting delta-8 and legalizing the more potent delta-9-THC, more commonly known as cannabis.

Erie County results show that mask compliance was highest in June, when the region’s COVID-19 rate was low.

School of Public Health and Health Professions is adding the new programs in an effort to meet student demand in these growing fields.

While recent recommendations have been to limit sun exposure to prevent skin cancer, there may also be a benefit to some sun exposure, especially exposure without sunburn, researchers say.

SPHHP students have new honors and a new opportunity to advance diversity.

“Leadership for Public Health Crises offers people an opportunity to be expand their knowledge in leadership as it relates to public health,” said Gregory Homish, professor and chair in UB’s Department of Community Health and Health Behavior, who helped develop the specialization.