Welcome to this season’s issue of Health Impact.

The School of Public Health and Health Professions has added a Master of Science degree program in rehabilitation science and Master of Science in international development and global health, which jointly hosted by SPHHP and the School of Architecture and Planning.

The numbers don’t lie. The Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), of which UB is the Northeast Regional Center, has been producing remarkable work related to post-menopausal women’s health for 30 years. 

Dr. Alan Jette believes radical change in how the United States discusses and approaches preventing disabilities is needed to address a “hidden pandemic.”

Kasia Kordas, John M. Violanti, and Jo L. Freudenheim were all recognized and honored recently in their respective research fields.

Even though humans are dependent on water and air for survival, they both can certainly cause serious health problems if polluted, according to Lina Mu, PhD, MD, University at Buffalo associate professor of epidemiology and environmental health, and director of the Office of Global Health Initiatives. 

Srikrithi Krishnan, a second-year student in the Master of Public Health program, has been serving as 2023-24 This Is Public Health (TIPH) Graduate Student Ambassador for the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). 

Adam Cunningham, BA ’13, MA ’15, MA ’20, considers his career and life to be not a “single novel with one plot but a series of connected short stories.” The fact that Cunningham has lived and worked on four continents and has degrees in political science, artificial intelligence, math and biostatistics pretty much confirms his notion.