Health Impact Fall 2025

Welcome to the Fall 2025 edition of Health Impact, the official publication of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions, connecting alumni, colleagues, students, friends and the community.

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From the Dean

Trending at SPHHP

Inquiry & Scholarship

  • Noyes Wants to Understand the Complexity of Human Behavior
    12/3/25
    Back when Professor Katia Noyes, PhD, MPH, was a graduate student doing preclinical basic science research at a university medical center, she came to a realization: the people in nearby economically disadvantaged neighborhoods used the center’s ER for health care because they couldn’t access preventive care, let alone take advantage of innovative treatments her research might lead to.
  • Faculty Awards
    12/3/25

    See what our SPHHP faculty and researchers are up to.

SPHHP in Depth

Faculty Updates

Student Connections

  • Meet Shujie Chen, Biostatistics Champion
    12/3/25
    Part of the power of Bayesian statistics is that it allows understanding of a problem to change as new information emerges. In her work focusing on Bayesian variable selection analysis, biostatistics doctoral student Shujie Chen aims to take full advantage of that power to develop solutions to real-world public health problems.

Events

  • A Season of Success
    12/3/25

    Experience the True Blue pride that lit up this season’s biggest milestones— commencement, hooding and pinning—each honoring the bold journey of our SPHHP students.

Alumni in Focus

  • For This Alumna, Success Starts with Belief
    12/3/25
    For Deborah Feltz, BS ’74, success has always stemmed from one key idea: self-efficacy. It’s also the concept she’s spent years studying, shaping decades of research that has influenced athletes, coaches and exercise scientists.