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 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.

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.

On Sept. 30, 300 community members along with UB students, faculty and staff gathered for the sixth annual “Igniting Hope” conference. The gathering has matured into what organizers describe as a movement aimed at bringing lasting change to the region by ending race-based disparities and their devastating impacts on the health of Black people, Hispanic people and other underrepresented groups.