News

  • Prioritizing Minority Mental Health
    7/3/23

    Mental health matters! Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, act, handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is just as important as physical health throughout our lives.

  • CAS announces 2023-24 Distinguished Visiting Scholars
    5/26/23

    Ten highly accomplished scholars and artists will come to UB this fall as members of the newest cohort of the year-long Distinguished Visiting Scholars (DVS) program in the College of Arts and Sciences. Their work will help elucidate social inequality and advance social justice within the university and Buffalo community.

  • Community Violence Intervention Focus of Pediatrics Event
    5/17/23

    UB faculty member Sarah J. Ventre opened the second Community Advocacy Conference by talking about the first such event, which took place last year.

    She talked about how pediatric residents, faculty and students connected with members of community organizations, and about the ideals they discussed and the “high hopes” they had for mitigating health care disparities in Western New York through engagement and collaboration.

  • Remembering May 14
    5/1/23

    Mayor Byron Brown announces the schedule of remembrance events for the “5/14 Remembrance Weekend: Reflection, Healing & Hope.”

  • National Minority Health Month 2023
    4/13/23

    Every April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) observes National Minority Health Month to highlight the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minority and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities and reducing health disparities.

  • UB receives federal funding to support mobile health unit
    3/24/23

    More than half of the residents who make up Buffalo’s Seneca Babcock neighborhood don’t have a vehicle. That makes getting to medical appointments, and just about anything health care related, challenging.

  • Five Ideas for Blunting Buffalo's Rising Rents and Improving Affordable Housing
    3/20/23

    Buffalo’s working-class residents persevered for decades against an outward tide of people and investment. But now that money is flowing back into the city again, many find themselves with new housing problems. Rent and home prices have spiked to record highs. New apartments command monthly rents that only the relatively wealthy can afford

  • Associate Director Rita Hubbard-Robinson Wins 2023 IDEA Award
    2/21/23
    Our own Rita Hubbard-Robinson, Associate Director of the Community Health Equity Research Institute, was recognized for her tireless work on behalf of the Buffalo community in winning a Business First 2023 IDEA Award (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity Awareness). In addition to her role in our Institute, Rita is founding CEO of Neuwater and Associates LLC, treasurer of the Buffalo Center for Health Equity and coordinator of First Fruits Food Pantry. She is a visionary community leader and serves several other leadership roles related to food equity in Buffalo.
  • Finding Core Solutions for Gun Homicide Crisis
    2/16/23

    Williams, a Black, Harvard-trained trauma surgeon, was the keynote speaker for the third edition of the “Beyond the Knife” endowed lecture series. The series was established by the Department of Surgery “to engage in difficult conversations surrounding racism and health care in the United States."