Nurturing the Global Child
Women's Group on Maternal Health and Child Health | Image by Pavani K. Ram | University at Buffalo
Approximately 17,000 children die worldwide every day, 44% of which occur in the first month of life, often from preventable causes. Meanwhile up to 1 billion children and youth aged 2–17 years experience physical, sexual, or emotional violence or neglect, which has ramifications for physical and mental health well into adulthood. Effective medical, behavioral, and social interventions exist, yet scalability – working across borders and sectors – remains a challenge. To nurture vulnerable children and adolescents into healthy adulthood, we join global initiatives, such as those led by USAID, helping to deliver effective practices and policies that improve child and adolescent health and wellbeing.
Our team brings together expertise from public health, social work, pediatrics, and the humanities. We are furthering novel and risky ideas to advance child and adolescent survival: developing portable multimodal imaging for early detection of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy resulting from birth asphyxia, identifying and illuminating how social policies impact morbidity and mortality, and unlocking social norms that influence family planning among adolescents.
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Faculty Fellows
Co-Lead, Global Child team; Associate Professor
Division of Health Services Policy and Practice, Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Elizabeth Borngraber
Clinical Research Coordinator
Surgery
Former Assistant Professor
Division of Health Services Policy and Practice, Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Co-director, Community for Global Health Equity; Associate Professor; PI of the SAM Study
Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Current interests: chemical mixtures, social-chemical environment interactions, toxicant-diet interactions, child growth and development.
Phone: 716-829-5340; Fax: 716-829-2979
Email: kkordas@buffalo.edu
Co-Lead, Refugee Health and Wellbeing team; Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
107 Park Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-4150
Email: rmuldoon@buffalo.edu
Director, MPH Concentration in Health Services Administration; Professor and Director, Division of Health Services Policy and Practice
Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Co-Lead Early Life Exposome Team; Assistant Professor
Epidemiology and Environmental Health and Community for Global Health Equity
Email: lesmith6@buffalo.edu
Our work is done in collaboration with many talented community partners. We list these partners on the affiliated project pages.