During the seventh annual Igniting Hope conference on Sept. 21, one message was made clear: Now is the time to confront health disparities rooted in environmental injustice.
Three years ago, Dr. Timothy F. Murphy and community leaders had their first meeting to plan out how University at Buffalo could win a federal grant to recruit and train the next generation of researchers whose work would address Western New York's striking health inequities.
A new partnership between four major organizations is helping bring nutritious and healthy foods to Buffalo's East Side.
Harvest House is introducing its new "Food Is Medicine" program that allows people to pick up healthy food and provides educational opportunities about the foods and overall health.
Leonard E. Egede, MD,chief of the Division of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and director of its Center for Advancing Population Science, has been appointed chair of the Department of Medicine.
Several hundred people from Buffalo and UB filled the M&T Auditorium in the Jacobs School to capacity to launch a grassroots movement creating a bold, new vision for the Black East Side.
Several hundred people from Buffalo and UB filled the M&T Auditorium in the Jacobs School to capacity to launch a grassroots movement creating a bold, new vision for the Black East Side.
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.
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.
