School of Public Health and Health Professions

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Improving Health at Every Age, in Everyone

At UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions, our faculty and students are dedicated to improving the health of individuals, families and communities through prevention and evidence-based practice. We’ve already accomplished much, and yet we know our students and faculty have the talent and desire to do so much more. So we’re raising our sights—and raising funds—to do more good. Make more change. Save more lives.

Here Is How We Support Students Who Will Transform the World

For more than 100 years we’ve been preparing UB students to improve lives and advance health in our communities. Now we’re aiming to do even more, more effectively than ever. With the support of philanthropy, we will:

  • Offer life-changing scholarships and programs such as our Diversity Scholars initiative
  • Further expand our commitment to collaboration with UB’s other health sciences schools
  • Support hands-on experiential learning and international experiences
  • Advance the discoveries from the monumental Women’s Health Initiative
  • Build innovative learning spaces 

Here Is How Our Forward-Thinking Research Has Real-World Impact

Our health research already has helped improve and save countless lives. But there are more still in need. Investments by donors help drive outcomes through endowed professorships, research funds and more, as our faculty experts tackle global health disparities across the world, illuminate risk factors, identify treatment breakthroughs and investigate critical issues that affect all of us. With your support, we will broaden our research, make an even bigger impact, and continue to lead the charge.

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Here Is How We Tackle Global Problems, Starting in Our Own Backyard

Supporting our work here supports health revolutions everywhere. Now, through philanthropy, we will continue to develop—and to demonstrate—innovative ways to improve the public’s health, then share our expertise worldwide, including:

  • Helping more patients at our Rehabilitation Physiology Lab
  • Creating a community-based spinal cord injury rehabilitation and recovery center
  • Expanding the work of our Center for Research and Education in Special Environments (CRESE)
  • Improving lives through The Refugee Health Initiative

We are seeking your investment in creating healthier communities.

News from the School of Public Health and Health Professions

  • Heat illness expert urges caution for most vulnerable
    7/15/22

    The rate of heat-related deaths keeps increasing because people are not adequately informed, UB faculty member Riana Pryor says.

  • 2023
    5/26/23
  • SPHHP Yearly Awards Given During Annual meeting
    6/8/22
    The University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions announced the recipients of its 2021-2022 awards during the school’s annual meeting in May. The award recipients have been chosen for their outstanding dedication and service to the school in areas of scholarship, community engagement and professional duties.
  • Former SPHHP dean Lynn Kozlowski retires, is honored with new fund supporting exceptional students
    9/1/23

    Lynn T, Kozlowski, PhD, Professor Emeritus and dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions from 2008 to 2014, has retired. 

  • 2022 Perry Lecturer Reveals Effects of Cannabis Legislation
    1/4/23

    Rosalie Pacula, Elizabeth Garrett Chair in Health Policy, Economics and Law at the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy, delivered the 34th annual J. Warren Perry Lecture, “The Impact of Policy on Public Health: Evidence from Cannabis Legalization Experiments in the U.S. and Canada.”

  • SPHHP Faculty Gain Honors and Appointments
    8/12/21

    The expertise and work of several faculty in the School of Public Health and Health Professions have recently garnered recognition in their fields.

  • Dean's Statement to the School of Public Health and Health Professions Community
    5/16/22
    We are community. We need to support each other. Most importantly, we need to stand with and support those who were directly impacted by this tragedy.

The Power of Your Investment

The challenges and opportunities have never been greater. And yet, our potential has never been higher. But our need for visionary donors has never been more critical. With your support, we can broaden and deepen our research, make Buffalo and Western New York stronger and healthier, and train the most advanced practitioners ever. Optimizing health at every age—in everyone, everywhere: It’s an audacious goal. And with your help, it’s attainable.

UB Fund: Immediate Support for Students

When you give to the UB Fund, your gift today is made available to help support students today. It’s that immediate. Giving to the UB Fund helps ensure our students have everything they need to become thoughtful global citizens, with 100 percent of gifts used to enhance the student experience, including crucial support for research, study abroad, student emergencies and community service opportunities.

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