As our community continues to mourn the loss of those who tragically lost their lives on May 14th, 2022, at Tops Supermarket. We ask that you take this time to think about what your role, responsibility and commitment is as a change agent. What we are called to do individually and collectively, because our community needs us now more than ever.
The UB Community Health Equity Research Institute was created with a goal to perform research to advance understanding of the root causes and to develop and test innovative solutions to eliminate health inequities in the region.
A coalition of community groups and activists is coming together with UB planners and researchers to radically transform one Black East Side neighborhood, and to do it sooner rather than later.
The Community Health Equity Research Institute is launching its first-ever pilot funding program to address health equities and adverse social determinants of health. The institute will fund two projects with a maximum budget of $40,000 each.
Despite substantial government investment aimed at reducing health disparities, large differences in health persist across geographic and racial lines in the United States. One prominent theory is that these health disparities are driven in part by disparities in the neighborhood environments where people live. If this is the case, then housing policies that desegregate, and therefore reduce disparities in neighborhood environments, may be an effective means for reducing disparities in health.
