Health Impact Spring/Summer 2023

Over 380 graduate and undergraduate students strode across the stage during the event.

One health-related truth the COVID-19 pandemic underscored is this: public health issues frequently cross borders. That notion is part of the impetus for a new micro-credential, Public Health from Global Perspectives, developed by UB’s Office of Global Health Initiatives (OGHI).

The University at Buffalo has embarked on its largest faculty-hiring initiative in recent history, with plans to hire upward of 200 full-time faculty over the next two years.

The COVID-19 pandemic made clear that the U.S. needs more public health workers. But many students need help to afford the education required to enter the public health workforce. A significant training grant awarded to the School of Public Health and Health Professions aims to solve that issue. 

Pandemic drinking, diet and vascular health, cannabis regulation and opioid overdose risks are some of the research topics from SPHHP faculty and students.

MJ Mulcahey, PhD, OTR/L, professor of occupational therapy, Thomas Jefferson University, focused the 15th Annual Glen E. Gresham Visiting Professorship in Rehabilitation Science on the unique practicalities of pediatric SCI and implications of growth and development on rehabilitation principles. 

SPHHP alumnus Brian King, PhD '10, MPH '06, focused the 16th Annual Saxon Graham Lecture on his roadmap to successful tobacco regulation and the challenges he faces as CTP’s director

This year’s Global Health Day Symposium, organized by UB’s Office of Global Health Initiatives, focused on the topic if women's health.

John M. Violanti, research professor of epidemiology and environmental health in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, has received the Outstanding Contributions to Epidemiology Award from the American College of Epidemiology.

Katia Noyes, PhD, team science core director in the University at Buffalo’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), has received the 2023 Team Science Award from the Association for Clinical and Translational Science. 

From a young age, Elizabeth Mietlicki-Baase, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, has been fascinated by what motivates us to eat what we eat. Perhaps unsurprisingly, her research focuses on how the brain controls what we eat.

Danelly Rodríguez is a first-generation university student taking the road less traveled from growing up in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Queens to a doctorate in epidemiology

SPHHP students Samiha Islam, Grace Van Vessem and Ahmed Soliman win high honors in their respective fields of study.

Whether you’ve experienced it or know someone who has, you realize the hardships some people can have getting pregnant. UB alumnus Enrique Schisterman has devoted much of his career to ameliorating that problem.