Courtesy of Jewish Family Services of Buffalo and Erie County
From 2003 to 2014, Erie County's four resettlement agencies resettled 9,723 refugees from Iraq, Somalia, Burma, Bhutan, and now Syria. Refugees receive resettlement support for three months time but, post-resettlement, face barriers to good health and well-being due to limited english proficiency coupled with a scarcity of interpreters and translators, mental health issues related to trauma and torture, lack of transportation, and a derth of culturally-engaged health professionals, pharmacists, and emergency care providers.
Co-Lead, Refugee Health and Wellbeing team; Project Lead, Reproductive Health Decision-Making; Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Hertel Elmwood Internal Medicine Center 900 Hertel Ave. Buffalo, NY 14216
Phone: 716-871-1571
Email: rod2@buffalo.edu
Joseph Gambacorta
Assistant Dean, Clinical Affairs
School of Dental Medicine
Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Co-Lead, Refugee Health and Wellbeing team; Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Founding Co-lead, Community for Global Health Equity; Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Community Health and Health Behavior
Co-Director and Founding Co-Lead, Community for Global Health Equity; Co-Lead, Food Equity Team; Project Lead, Plan REFUGE; Professor
Urban and Regional Planning
Founding Co-Lead, Community for Global Health Equity; Professor and Chair
Department of Architecture
Phone: 716-575-2874
Email: khsmith@buffalo.edu
Nicole Little
UB Alumna; Former Graduate Assistant
MArch, MUP
Biplab Bhattacharya, PhD
UB Alumnus; Former Graduate Assistant
Industrial and Systems Engineering and Community for Global Health Equity
Email: biplabsu@buffalo.edu
Danielle Vasquez
Graduate Student
Management and Public Health and Health Professions