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UB alumnus Paul Washburn talked about treating and reversing disease by replacing unhealthy behaviors with positive ones during a recent UB Alumni Webinar.

UB has been awarded an important grant from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) that supports teaching health sciences students how to dispel medical disinformation.

Speakers include Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, UB cannabis researcher R. Lorraine Collins and the head of the state’s Office of Cannabis Management.

The rate of heat-related deaths keeps increasing because people are not adequately informed, UB faculty member Riana Pryor says.

Patricia Ohtake is the only UB faculty member to receive the honor from the American Physical Therapy Association.

Rate of heat-related deaths keeps increasing because people are not adequately informed about heat illness identification and appropriate treatments, as well as prevention strategies, says UB researcher.

The importance of rural health research and lessons learned are shared by UB investigators and their community partners.

Online program aims at working health care professionals.

Twenty have been recognized for consistently superior professional achievement and the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

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.

Using artificial intelligence, a team of UB researchers has developed a novel system that uses metabolic and cardiovascular biomarkers to model health status and disease risks across a patient’s lifespan.

Jeffrey Shaman explained how the weather — specifically absolute humidity — can affect our health at last month's Richard V. Dr. Lee, MD, Lectureship in Global Health.

Danielle Meyer shares her expertise on a range of Turkey Day topics, such as how to cut down on the calories and whether it’s OK to have seconds.

What to know about counting calories on Thanksgiving, why in-bird stuffing is a big no-no, and why it’s OK to have seconds.

Jessica O'Neill, PhD, has been placed with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance in Washington, D.C.

The game teaches first-year health professions students the importance of collaboration.

Dean Seneca’s course aims to show how the injustices faced by American Indian and Alaska Native people created many of today’s health disparities.

Overlap of age at diagnosis of breast cancer and age with high consumption of caffeine, and inconsistent findings from previous studies, motivated researchers to study whether caffeine could affect breast cancer risk.

The SUNY Distinguished Professor and noted scholar on tobacco use plans to lecture and teach an occasional class.

First-degree relatives 6 times more likely to be diagnosed with colon cancer before age 50, while second-degree relatives are 3 times more likely and third-degree relatives 1.56 times more likely.

Herbs, sunflowers and the “three sisters” rise in a garden that was the brainchild of SPHHP faculty and staff.

While neglect represents about 75% of child protection cases, it remains understudied compared to other types of child maltreatment.

The chapter specifically focuses on effective assessment in UB's MPH program.

Grant from the Windsong CARES Foundation is funding the study, which will add to researchers’ understanding of whether bacteria in breast tissue contribute to breast cancer.

The work centers on photoacoustic tomography, which uses laser light and ultrasound.

“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.

Twenty-two UB faculty members have been named recipients of the university’s 2021 Exceptional Scholar and Teaching Innovation Awards.

A $1.7 million grant from the NIAAA will allow UB to train pre-doctoral students in addition to postdocs.

At a time when alcoholism is on the rise, the NIAAA grant allows UB to train pre-doctoral students in addition to postdocs.

A program in which Schomburg fellows mentor Honors College students aims to improve retention and ensure students' overall success.

The findings suggest the need for improved school-based mental health and substance use interventions for victims of sexual violence who are also sexual minorities.

Study is among the first to examine both barriers to and possible strategies for WIC shopping. Researchers have also partnered with Tops Markets on a pilot project to test out “bundling” of WIC items.

The Public Health Pathway Academy introduces 10th- and 11th-graders to the world of public health and career opportunities in the field.

The UB biostatistician has been recognized by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics for outstanding accomplishments in the field of statistical science.

Three soon-to-be UB graduates share their stories, who inspired them, and what they plan to do next.

For researchers at UB's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the principles of team science have become part of everyday life since the pandemic.

The annual event is part of the School of Public Health and Health Professions' celebration of National Public Health Week.

Several UB graduate schools and programs continued their upward trajectory in the U.S. News & World Report ranking of America’s Best Graduate Schools. The publication released its 2022 rankings today.

MPH students in the Department of Community Health and Health Behavior can also delve deeper in issues surrounding addictions.

The event sponsored by the Office of Interprofessional Education gave students a taste of what working on a team is like, while also having a little fun.

From 1999-2017, more than 7.8 billion fall-risk-increasing drugs were prescribed to older adults in the U.S., and deaths from falls doubled, according to UB research.

Women who reported drinking non-diet soda five times or more per week were 85% more likely to die from breast cancer.

Undergraduate applications to the School of Public Health and Health Professions have jumped by 70% over last year.

UB Master of Public Health students are getting a real-life education about COVID-19 at Erie County Medical Center.

FDA-funded project aims to develop new methods for monitoring safety of new medications, vaccines.

UB faculty members Dianna Cichocki and Jessica Kruger recognized for “enthusiastic and effective” online teaching.

More than 90% of faculty and students taking part in the fall Interprofessional Forum felt the session met the learning objectives, and more than half preferred the online format.

Public health course will explore the social determinants of health, intergenerational trauma, health equity, and racism and health.

The prestigious Abraham Lilienfeld Award recognizes excellence in the teaching of epidemiology during the course of a career.

From celebrating the life of a Buffalo civil rights activist to resurrecting a mammoth’s broken genes, here are stories from the work of UB researchers in a difficult year.

Members of the UB community found an abundance of ways to fight the pandemic in Western New York and beyond.

The first meeting of the UB Cancer Research Consortium was held virtually on Dec. 10.

Jim Lenker, Patricia Ohtake, Sharon Ray and Janice Tona recently were awarded some of the highest honors given to professionals in their fields.

mRehab was designed to guide individuals with chronic stroke through a home program, while providing them with feedback on their recovery and performance specifically pertaining to upper limb mobility.

The new federal contract funds the groundbreaking national study of health issues affecting postmenopausal women through 2027.

With this extension through 2027, the WHI will have been continuously funded for 35 years.

Sarahmona Przybyla received a Special Recognition Award from NYS Health Commissioner Howard Zucker during World AIDS Day summit.

Taken together, the two papers send a powerful message: “Sit less, walk more for heart health,” says Michael LaMonte, research associate professor of epidemiology at UB.

Paper reflects on how coronavirus pandemic has changed food retail, and provides recommendations for research to understand the impact of the pandemic on the retail food environment and consumer behavior.