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  • Annual Global Innovation Challenge
    4/14/21
    The annual Global Innovation Challenge is a competition and course open to all undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and nontraditional students focused on developing solutions to some of the major, unsolved global health challenges around the world. For one week, participants engage in team-building and creative problem-solving activities with international experts and UB faculty. 
  • Annual Global Health Day
    1/5/18
    The 1st Annual Global Health Day was organized by the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions' Office of Global Health Initiatives in 2010. This annual event brings together scholars from different disciplines to discuss relevant global health topics. Previous Global Health Day topics have included: Women's and Children's Nutrition in Emergency Settings, Perspectives on Humanitarian Crises Around the World, Extinguishing the Tobacco Epidemic, Treating Neglected Infections, and Air Pollution Across the Lifespan. This annual event is co-sponsored by the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions' Office of Global Health Initiatives and the Community for Global Health Equity. It is traditionally held on the Friday of National Public Health Week. 
  • Annual WNY Refugee Health Summit
    9/8/22
    Co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo’s Community for Global Health Equity and School of Public Health and Health Professions’ Office of Global Health Initiatives, the annual Refugee Health Summit unites clinicians, resettlement representatives, community health workers, researchers, students, municipal leaders, and refugees. The 5 Annual WNY Refugee Health Summit will highlight the innovative university-community partnerships that have resulted in research, programming, and solutions to improve health and wellbeing for refugees.

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