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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Public health and health professions staff and faculty recognized for their leadership, research and service.

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

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

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

The School of Public Health and Health Professions recently held its Fifth Annual Student Awards Reception. The reception celebrates and recognizes the admirable accomplishments of hardworking students across all five departments.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Three SPHHP students have been acknowledged in distinct ways for exceptional work and commitment to their discipline.

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.

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

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

Faculty in athletic training, rehabilitation science, and epidemiology and environmental health fields recognized with awards and council appointments.

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.

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.

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.

As UB epidemiology turns 100, Pauline Mendola and Enrique Schisterman talk about how their UB education led them to prominent positions in their profession.

Six faculty members from a variety of disciplines try to persuade a student audience to make the ultimate decision: who is worth saving?

The program held during winter break aims to better prepare students for a career in the field.

Thanks to the efforts of professor Kimberley Persons and alum David Merlo, students will be able to have a service-learning experience in Haiti.

Many of the events on the calendar are not ones that most people would think of as being related to sustainability.

UB researcher Jessica Kruger looks at the health effects of the popular pastime of watching hours upon hours of television shows.

Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor, you might want to see how much DNA you really share, says UB faculty member Lynn Kozlowski.

Area refugees joined UB faculty, staff and students and community members in discussing links between housing and health.

Students from three local high schools took part in the inaugural UB Statistics Program Competition.

SUNY FACT2 Excellence in Instruction Award is one of several honors Kruger has received over the past year.

Alex Ampadu, Jessica Kruger and Mark R. Marino are recipients of the SA award named in honor of the late, beloved UB history professor.

UB's IPE curriculum will receive a Program of Merit award in October from the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions.

Online program lets students take advantage of the same foundational public health education as the classroom-based individualized MPH.

Over the past two decades, CRIA has trained more than 30 postdocs who’ve gone on to obtain research positions at universities across the country.

The spotlight was on UB faculty and staff, and their achievements during 2019 at the annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence.

A campuswide food drive is being held next week for the virtual food pantry that helps students who have trouble accessing affordable food.

The three pilot projects aim to understand how obesity develops and what systems might be targeted to treat it.

UB faculty experts offer tips on how to eat right, move more and stress less.

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers identify vitamin E acetate as likely culprit.

Participants in the Aging Innovation Challenge developed prototype products and hacked the issues that aging New Yorkers face every day.

The UB School of Dental Medicine will welcome hundreds of Western New York children who lack access to dental care to receive free oral health care, hearing and vision exams, and other health services. 

Technology called MindEye uses infrared camera to detect subtle changes in pupil dilation and eye movement.

Researchers surveyed cannabis users about beliefs on marijuana's effectiveness in treating certain medical conditions. The results reveal a big discrepancy.

Not quite, says a new study that highlights the discrepancy between cannabis enthusiasts’ beliefs about the medicinal and health uses of marijuana and the empirical evidence.

The annual Undergraduate Winter Institute for Biostatistics provides students an opportunity to learn more about the topic and career opportunities in the field.

The award recognizes UB’s progress in bringing the benefits of clinical and translational science to patients, including the tripling of clinical trials since 2015.

Jason Niu will use the funding to study the association between early-life secondhand smoke exposure and cardiovascular issues in midlife and beyond.

A winter break trip to Jamaica opens a new world for students examining behavior-driven diseases.

Conference is set for March 24-25 and builds off the success of last year’s event, the nation’s first-ever gathering of mobile produce market representatives.

A unique collaboration among faculty from UB and SUNY Erie, and a Roswell surgeon is helping medical students understand food and health in a new way.

Several UB graduate schools and programs have been cited by U.S. News & World Report in its 2021 ranking of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”

Last month, the Erie County Department of Health and local hospital systems reached out to the University at Buffalo’s Institute for Healthcare Informatics (IHI) in an effort to better understand how the pandemic could unfold in Western New York.

Pauline Mendola holds three degrees from UB and started her career here. In the fall, she'll return as chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health.

M. Laura Feltri, Jo Freudenheim, Amit Goyal, Elad Levy and Stephen Tiffany received the highest faculty rank in SUNY.

The work from the Community of Excellence provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the field of global health.

Hash Bash participants demonstrate surprisingly low level of knowledge about THC and CBD content and effective dosages, highlighting the need for additional public health education and research.

Template was developed by UB, UNC Chapel Hill researchers using evidence-based strategies from Veggie Van model.

The UB COVID Analytics Team draws conclusions, which they provide weekly to the Erie County Department of Health (DOH) and local hospital systems’ medical leadership, from hospitalization data that they analyze every day.

Researchers offer an evidence-based summary of post-intensive care syndrome as it relates to the care of people who survive critical illness requiring ICU care and are now back home and are recovering.

Wilson is receiving UB's highest honor for her enduring and unprecedented impact on Buffalo and all of Western New York, which will be felt for many generations to come.

Rogerson — an expert in geography and biostatistics — has been a member of UB’s faculty since 1986.

Ban on traffic mobility significantly reduced vehicle emissions, which may have prevented a higher number of deaths that would have been attributable to air pollution than fatalities caused by the novel coronavirus.

Laura E. Smith will develop a decision-making tool that can plan more effective health campaigns in low- and middle-income countries.

Researchers found that frequent cannabis users aren’t as knowledgeable as they should be about harm reduction strategies, which should serve as a wake-up call to public health campaigns.

The students are working with five county health departments to help them respond to the pandemic as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Reliably measuring recovery capital is the first step to advancing the science of better understanding how different sources of capital facilitate recovery. 

A live, online public forum on racial equity and anti-racism will be held from 1 to 3 p.m.  July 14. The forum is being organized by the Community Health Equity Research Institute of the University at Buffalo and the Buffalo Center for Health Equity.

Researchers from UB and the Catholic University of Uruguay found an average of 13 pollutants in each silicone wristband collected in a study on chemical exposure among a small group of Uruguayan children.

Major challenges await Western New York and other parts of the state in late summer and early fall but there are strategies the community can take to reduce the risks of COVID-19 outbreaks.

UB researchers surveyed local families and stakeholders to find the best strategies for addressing disparities in healthy food consumption.

UB has received a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the NIH to develop a new, portable breast-imaging system that has the potential to better identify breast cancer.

Colleagues and former students turn out for multiple virtual symposiums and Zoom sessions to celebrate the statistics pioneer and UB research professor.

The prescription of potentially inappropriate medications to older adults is linked to increased hospitalizations, and costs patients, on average, more than $450 per year.

The leading public health expert told a Lee lecture audience that he believes the pandemic will be under reasonable control by, “optimistically,” June 2021.

A yearlong series presented by OIX and the unit diversity officers aims to provide advice for instructors on how to make their teaching and curriculum more inclusive.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

UB faculty member Gregory Fabiano is continuing his nationally recognized work with ADHD children with a new study that will test how best to meet the special education goals of these children.

The two-day conference will invite representatives from mobile produce markets across the U.S. to Buffalo to network, attend training sessions and share their successes and failures.

Study was inspired by recent reports of acute kidney injury among agricultural workers performing manual labor in hot outdoor environments in the U.S.

Some 75 public health undergraduates made history last semester by authoring their own open-source textbook.

As UB epidemiology turns 100, Pauline Mendola and Enrique Schisterman talk about how their UB education led them to prominent positions in their profession.

Six faculty members from a variety of disciplines try to persuade a student audience to make the ultimate decision: who is worth saving?

The program held during winter break aims to better prepare students for a career in the field.

Thanks to the efforts of professor Kimberley Persons and alum David Merlo, students will be able to have a service-learning experience in Haiti.

Graduate programs across the University at Buffalo have been named among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report in its 2020 Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday.

Sponsored by UB’s Office of Interprofessional Education, Thursday’s event is a collaboration between several UB health-related entities.

Light activity appears to reduce risk of stroke or heart failure by up to 22 percent, and the risk of heart attack or coronary death by as much as 42 percent.

Many of the events on the calendar are not ones that most people would think of as being related to sustainability.

Research is believed to be the first large, multicenter study to investigate the association between oral contraceptive use and risk of highly fatal ovarian cancer.

UB researcher Jessica Kruger looks at the health effects of the popular pastime of watching hours upon hours of television shows.

Three UB faculty members – Anthony Campagnari, Gary Giovino and John Richard – have been named State University of New York Distinguished Professors, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.

Before you attribute a trait to a famous ancestor, you might want to see how much DNA you really share, says UB faculty member Lynn Kozlowski.

Area refugees joined UB faculty, staff and students and community members in discussing links between housing and health.

Results underscore an important issue as more states legalize marijuana: the increased need for tailored nutrition education as the population of pot-smokers grows.

Some 5,799 students are candidates to receive 6,392 degrees and certificates during UB’s 2019 commencement ceremonies being held May 3-22.

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and UB's Clinical Research Institute on Addictions are among more than 100 organizations that have joined the national effort.

UB researcher also authored first paper to survey pharmacy students about their knowledge of and attitudes toward pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Many health problems are related to food choice, yet diet selection is a complex process that is not entirely understood. To coordinate, promote and foster research in an area so critical to maintaining proper health, UB has launched the Center for Ingestive Behavior Research.

CSA’s mission is to conduct community-responsive research among UB faculty and its community partners to solve challenges facing older adults.

His leadership has placed UB at the forefront of efforts clean energy, pollution reduction.

UB-led research is first to report an association between long-term exposure to ozone and atherosclerosis.

UB-led research reveals how fluctuating air pollution at the Beijing Olympics affected local residents’ bodies at the level of metabolites.

Students from three local high schools took part in the inaugural UB Statistics Program Competition.

Improving our understanding of adolescent substance use will help physicians better address the health needs and risk factors in this vulnerable population.

Researchers cite Big Tobacco's marketing stronghold on African American smokers among reasons why this group is 12% less likely to quit.

Study seeks to identify new genes associated with breast cancer risk in African American women.

Initiative will reach communities on Ferry Street or within four blocks to the north and south of the corridor, where racial health disparities are among the highest in the city.

Study's findings on nitrogen dioxide suggest that China's air pollution standard for NO2 may need to be re-evaluated.

UB researchers’ insights into a target that succeeded in animals but failed in humans reveal a new paradigm for screening Alzheimer’s drugs.

SUNY FACT2 Excellence in Instruction Award is one of several honors Kruger has received over the past year.

Organizations in Buffalo and Long Island, as well as North Carolina, Massachusetts and Ohio, will start or expand their operations as part of UB research project.

Award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers.

UB researchers have received a record 11 National Science Foundation CAREER awards in 2019, along with a U.S. presidential early career award.

Alex Ampadu, Jessica Kruger and Mark R. Marino are recipients of the SA award named in honor of the late, beloved UB history professor.

Results are based on an extensive, 18-year study involving more than 7,000 people and a detailed examination of the air pollution they encountered between 2000 and 2018.

New study will examine the eating habits of emergency medical services workers, over 70% of whom are overweight or obese.

UB's IPE curriculum will receive a Program of Merit award in October from the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions.

Online program lets students take advantage of the same foundational public health education as the classroom-based individualized MPH.

Women who consumed sofrito more than once per day had a 67% decrease in risk compared to women who never ate it.

Two faculty members in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are serving on New York State’s Maternal Mortality Advisory Council.

Research project involving 200 Buffalo police officers aims to characterize the physical, rather than psychological, health effects that are a result of police officers’ atypical work hours.

If the goal is getting people to eat more fruits and vegetables, mobile produce and farmers markets are more effective.

Goal of the $750,000 grant is to address the “cognitive and frailty tsunami already crashing on our shores.”

UB study will compare Opioid Intervention Court and traditional drug court in four key areas, providing policymakers and providers with evidence of OIC’s effectiveness.

Over the past two decades, CRIA has trained more than 30 postdocs who’ve gone on to obtain research positions at universities across the country.

The spotlight was on UB faculty and staff, and their achievements during 2019 at the annual Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence.

Women who did the highest amount of physical activity had an 18% lower risk of hip fracture and 6% lower risk of total fracture.

Getting five or fewer hours of sleep a night is associated with low bone mineral density (BMD) and higher odds of osteoporosis, according to the findings of the largest study of sleep and BMD to date among U.S. postmenopausal women.

A campuswide food drive is being held next week for the virtual food pantry that helps students who have trouble accessing affordable food.

A trained psychiatric epidemiologist, Homish studies substance use and mental health, particularly within the context of the military.

Participants who ate a Western diet were three times more likely to develop late stage of this debilitating eye condition.

Community Health Equity Research Institute brings together community partners and faculty, students from 10 UB schools to improve health of underserved neighborhoods.

Three projects selected for pilot grants all have the broader aim of understanding how obesity develops and what systems might be targeted to treat it.

The three pilot projects aim to understand how obesity develops and what systems might be targeted to treat it.

From analyzing the avocado genome to designing a stingray-inspired space exploration vehicle, here are some highlights from a year of discovery.

Marianthi Markatou has been invited to speak at the 10th annual Sentinel Initiative Public Workshop on Feb. 7 in Bethesda, Maryland.

UB researchers played a key role in the development of new guidelines for managing fatigue in emergency medical services personnel.

Researchers are working with a sample of members of the Buffalo Police Department on a three-year $814,000 study being funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice.

Designed for individuals who want to gain foundational public health knowledge in as little as one year, the program can be completed online or on campus on a full- or part-time basis.

UB's Pavani Ram is among the contributors to a Stanford-led study of children in poor regions of Bangladesh.

Registered participants will learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose, as well as how to properly administer naloxone.

Marriage satisfaction helped soldiers better deal with trauma from combat and resulted in lower levels of alcohol problems.

Researchers will tackle climate change, chemical exposures among schoolchildren and developing more efficient semiconductors.

The rankings are based on surveys of administrators at more than 1,970 programs and more than 16,500 academics and professionals.

The University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has awarded 11 new grants to support promising translational research projects in Western New York.

The April 6 research symposium will also include a screening of ‘Bending the Arc.’ 

National Cancer Institute funding will allow Lucia Leone and her team to expand their work by helping organizations across the Northeast and Southeast start mobile markets using the Veggie Van model.

The findings of two recently published studies on the emergence of hookah use indicate that public health officials may need to consider broadening their tobacco prevention efforts beyond traditional cigarettes.

A federally funded study led by UB researchers will look at whether mobile produce markets are helping people eat healthier.

Fifteen University at Buffalo students have received 2018 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, presented to them by SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson April 10 at an awards ceremony in Albany.

On April 28, the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is hosting "Igniting Hope: Building a Just Community With a Culture of Health and Equity," focused on addressing health disparities in Buffalo's African-American community. 

Summit aims to improve access to culturally and linguistically appropriate services, efficient clinic and transportation systems and operations, and available economic opportunities.

Study looked at 46 women across two different age ranges, 60-74 and 75-90, to learn how physical activity affects frailty differently in the two groups

For UB's DPT and BS/MS candidates, the hooding ceremony may be more meaningful than graduation.

A new study has identified several key factors in postmenopausal women that are associated with height loss, a common occurrence in this age group that is known to increase the risk for death and disease.

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.

Genetic associations on BMI were strongest in sedentary postmenopausal women and weakest in women who reported high levels of recreational physical activity.

The research will examine the health of the communities near the plant.

A UB tobacco policy expert says 1980s warning labels failed to distinguish between the harms of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.

R. Lorraine Collins is member of 20-person team tasked with drafting legislation on how to regulate marijuana use in New York State.

After seeing an ad in a campus newspaper promoting unhealthy late-night foods, researchers decided to look at a sample of college students to better understand how drinking affects what they eat.

UB's programs in physical therapy and occupational therapy have received 10-year renewals from their respective accreditation organizations.

Study is the first to examine whether metric mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is, in fact, associated with outcomes of care in inpatient rehabilitation facilities.

UB-led study is the largest and most comprehensive to date that has evaluated physical activity within the context of heart failure prevention.

UB jumps eight spots to No. 89 among the best national universities in the country, and is 38th among public universities, in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2019 rankings.

$359,000 grant to UB's Jo Freudenheim will allow research team to study the role of the microbiome in breast cancer.

Event will feature a wheelchair obstacle course, adaptive sports equipment demonstrations, panel discussions and adaptive yoga and wheelchair basketball, rugby and lacrosse.

Study is the first to highlight sex differences in thermal behavior and could one day inform the development of new athletic apparel.

For faculty member Jessica Kruger, students’ commitment doesn’t end in the classroom.

Study funded by University of Rochester Center for AIDS Research is part of a concerted strategy to improve substance use disorder outcomes and decrease HIV infections.

Problem alcohol use is more common among Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers who have greater negative emotions over having never been deployed.

Women who experienced loss of all teeth had approximately 20 percent higher risk of developing hypertension during follow-up compared to women who still had natural teeth.

An innovative stroke recovery system landed the UB team in the finals of the Aging Innovation Challenge.

Combined with a previous $2.3 million NIH grant for the ongoing study, Homish has now received $5 million for the project.

University at Buffalo researchers received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to conduct one of the first studies on the effectiveness of behavioral therapy in treating insomnia among cancer survivors.

From identifying a potential autism treatment to creating fungal-fighting 3-D printed dentures — here are some highlights from a year of discovery.