News and Announcements

CGHE Co-Director Kordas among environmental health scientists calling for institutional and personal responsibility for climate change
5/21/20
As coronavirus threatens food security, UB Food Lab researchers are working with community partners to respond.
Recent Doctoral Graduate and CGHE Alumna, Gauri Desai, wins Saxon Graham Dissertation Award
5/3/20
Dr. Gauri Desai, a recent doctoral graduate in epidemiology, was recognized at the 2020 SPHHP Student Awards as the recipient of the Saxon Graham Dissertation Award. She received the award for her dissertation titled “Low-Level Arsenic Exposure, B-Vitamins, and Neurodevelopment among Uruguayan Schoolchildren.”
NCHH and Health Collaborating Centers Urge President and Congress to Restore WHO Funding
6/22/20
On April 28th, 40 respected health leaders across the United States released A Declaration of U.S. Health Collaborating Centers, an open letter urging the president and the Congress not only to restore but increase funding for the World Health Organization (WHO). The declaration stated that the mission and capacity of WHO is needed now more than ever to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why gender-sensitive social protection is critical to the COVID-19 response in low- and middle-income countries
6/22/20
Many governments are using social protection programs to respond to the economic crisis and health risk induced by COVID-19. As of April 17, 133 countries had adapted or introduced 564 social protection initiatives, according to the World Bank. With the focus on rapid assistance, gender considerations have understandably not been at the forefront of these efforts. A rapid assessment of initial COVID-19 social protection responses indicates that only 11% show some (albeit limited) gender-sensitivity.
This map shows where people can access food in Buffalo during COVID-19
4/27/20

As coronavirus threatens food security, UB Food Lab researchers are working with community partners to respond.

Magical thinking in the time of Covid-19
6/22/20
Over the past few weeks, I have heard variations of "I don't know why but I don't think Bangladesh will be affected by Covid-19 in the way that other countries have been." That obvious kind of magical thinking, expressed by a friend, an uncle, and even my mother, is almost endearing; for, it is so clearly an expression of love. And fear. It makes you want to hug them and say, "yes, me too."
CGHE produces next textbook
4/14/20

The work from the Community of Excellence provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the field of global health.

COVID-19 Travel Information
3/13/20
UB continues to monitor the spread of COVID-19 and is taking proactive measures in accordance with guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control to ensure UB faculty, staff, students, and visitors remain safe and healthy.
Keep COVID-19 communication clear and simple
3/5/20

UB health communication expert Janet Yang offers tips for keeping the public informed, not alarmed.

GIC focuses on communicating complex science
2/18/20

This year's Global Innovation Challenge examines how to communicate complex health information to people in global North and South countries.

Samendy Brice applies design to bridge food access along Haiti, Dominican Republic border
2/5/20
Samendy Brice, a second-year Master of Architecture student and winner of the inaugural Watts Scholarship, shares her passion for building diverse and inclusive spaces and communities. She is currently completing her thesis research on structural enablers of food access along the border of Ouanaminthe, Haiti, and Dajabon, Dominican Republic.
Using eye-tracking technology to detect neuro disorders
1/17/20

UB biomedical engineer Anirban Dutta and colleagues are testing their “MindEye” device as an early predictor of Alzheimer’s.  

Update from Anirban Dutta’s NIRlab: CGHE welcomes Visiting Research Assistant Yashika Arora!
1/15/20
At his Neuroengineering and Informatics for Rehabilitation Laboratory (NIRlab) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, CGHE faculty member Dr. Anirban Dutta works with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)—a non-invasive imaging technique in which light of a particular wavelength is applied to chemicals or biological subjects. 
After trade deal, unhealthy foods flowed into Central America, Dominican Republic, study finds
11/12/19

The research highlights the importance of studying ties between trade and diet.

Dr. Tia Palermo Advances Understanding of Intimate Partner Violence in the Global South
11/4/19
With international partners, CGHE faculty affiliate and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Dr. Tia Palermo is studying the links between intimate partner violence (IPV) and cash transfers to poor and vulnerable women in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). 
CGHE's Diana Aga Receives SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
10/23/19
An integral member of the Antimicrobial Resistance Big Ideas team of CGHE, Dr. Diana Aga, the Henry M. Woodburn Chair and Professor of Chemistry will be recognized at UB’s Fall 2019 Celebration of Academic Excellence. 
Nursing professor receives national award
9/17/19

Kafuli Agbemenu is one of 16 scholars across the nation to receive the 18 month, $73,000 award.

After a Decade of Food Access Work, Are People Eating Any Healthier?
6/22/20
From “food deserts” to “food apartheid,” four experts whose work spans the nation survey the past 10 years of the food access landscape.
Celebrating four years of excellence
9/11/19
Does low-level exposure to lead and manganese affect cognition and behaviour?
6/22/20
The Salud Ambiental Montevideo cohort is characterised by several social-environmental factors, including exposure to metals and cognitive performance. We caught up with Seth Frndak from the University of Buffalo to talk through CANTAB’s role in this epidemiological study.
Coffee as a pathway to peace
7/8/19

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, peace and economic opportunity are percolating, thanks to UB efforts to develop a more inclusive coffee value chain.

Smith receives national book award
6/4/19

The architecture chair is the recipient of the Great Places Award for books for his study of Kigali, Rwanda.

Investigating antibiotics in wastewater
5/8/19

UB chemist Diana Aga works with partners including the WHO to understand how antimicrobial drugs are finding their way into rivers and lakes.

Study sheds new light on harms of air pollution
5/30/19

UB-led research reveals how fluctuating air pollution at the Beijing Olympics affected local residents’ bodies at the level of metabolites.

Antibiotics in wastewater: UB chemist investigates a disturbing trend
5/6/19

Diana Aga works with partners including the WHO to understand how antimicrobial drugs are finding their way into rivers and lakes worldwide.

Job Posting: Postdoctoral Associate in Food Equity
6/22/20
Applications are invited for an outstanding postdoctoral scholar to join a university-wide interdisciplinary research initiative on Food Equity and Global Health.
Summit addresses health and housing
4/17/19

Area refugees joined UB faculty, staff and students and community members in discussing links between housing and health.

Refugee Health Summit to focus on housing, health
3/26/19

The summit will examine Buffalo’s housing crisis, explore the links between housing and health, and suggest policies to improve housing for better health of refugees.

Study examines African refugees' pregnancy outcomes
3/20/19

The UB-led study found that the refugee women have healthier pregnancies than women born in the U.S., despite receiving less prenatal care.

Faculty named fellows of SUNY HLI
3/5/19

Oscar Gomez-Duarte and Justin Read have joined an initiative that is developing Hispanic/Latinx leaders across SUNY.

UB awards first badge under new micro-credential programs
1/3/19

The University at Buffalo has awarded seven students with the university’s first academic badge, a micro-credential that allows students to showcase their mastery of a skill in an area of interest.

Examining e-waste industry in Bangladesh
12/7/18

Engineering prof Nirupam Aich and colleagues are looking at the effects of recycling and repairing electronics on residents' health.

Help plan 2019 WNY Refugee Health Summit
11/27/18
For the past five years, UB and local partners have convened clinicians, resettlement representatives, community health workers, researchers, students, municipal leaders and refugees from Western New York for an annual refugee health summit.
A University-City Partnership Plants the Seeds of Global Change
6/22/20
Buffalo’s shifting urban and social landscapes create openings for design and planning innovation as well as intensive community-engaged teaching and research at UB.
Two heads are better than one, according to new leadership model in UB’s architecture program
6/22/20
The School of Architecture and Planning opens the 2018-19 academic year with two new faces in the Department of Architecture’s administrative wing in Hayes Hall.
National planning conference sets records in Buffalo
6/22/20
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning set an attendance record for its national conference when more than 1,200 urban planning scholars descended on Buffalo last month for ACSP 2018.
Food systems planning experts say it’s time to reflect on local governments’ efforts
10/18/18

Special issue of peer-reviewed journal addresses key questions in food systems planning efforts.

Job Posting: Postdoctoral Associate Complex Environmental Exposures
6/22/20
The University at Buffalo Community of Excellence in Global Health Equity (CGHE) invites outstanding candidates to apply for a postdoctoral position in complex environmental exposures .
Announcing Dr. Kasia Kordas as New Co-Director for the Community for Global Health Equity
8/15/18
This fall, Dr. Pavani Ram will be rotating out of her role as founding Co-Director for the Community of Excellence in Global Health Equity (CGHE). UB has greatly benefited from Dr. Ram’s passion for promoting health equity – but it is her human decency that has, to a significant degree, shaped CGHE. Having set the Community into motion – encouraging faculty to work globally, sometimes out of their comfort zones; connecting UB faculty with influential leaders around the world; and launching innovative educational programs – Dr. Ram will now focus on her research. Thank you, Dr. Ram, for your grit, focus, and good heart. 
Building Biomedical Research Capacity Requires Mentoring the Next Generation of Leaders and Scientists
8/16/18
1981 marked the beginning of the HIV epidemic. Between 1982-1988 AIDS became prominent in the United States and Europe, but the world lacked therapeutic drugs that could suppress the virus. 
CGHE and the AMR Team Hold International Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop at UB
8/7/18
By 2050, antimicrobial resistant infections are projected to be a leading cause of death globally. At present, approximately 90% of diagnosed cases are in Asia and Africa. However, within a framework of global interconnectivity and international travel, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health equity challenge as well as a pressing public health concern for well-resourced countries such as the United States. 
Students awarded Fulbrights
6/1/18

UB's other study abroad scholarship recipients will focus on foreign language and cultural exploration.

MUP student Erin Sweeney wins Fulbright to study food systems planning in Singapore
5/15/18
Erin Sweeney, who will graduate this week with her Master of Urban Planning degree, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Research Award to advance her research in food systems planning in support of small-scale farmers in Singapore.
GIC focuses on food systems
5/17/18

This year's Global Innovation Challenge examines cultivating equity for those who grow our food.

UB holds Inclusive Excellence Summit
5/4/18

The summit's keynote panel stressed that coordination and intentionality are key to integrating inclusive excellence campus-wide.

Perils of e-waste
4/24/18
Understanding the Global Within the Local: Educational Policy and Programmatic Supports for Displaced Youth
6/22/20
Melinda Lemke, assistant professor from the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, is the primary investigator on a study that will examine how school staff leverage policy and/or programming supports to address the social and emotional well-being of displaced students in Western New York schools.
More sustainability options for students
2/2/18

Engineering professor John Atkinson is working to broaden students’ opportunities to learn about the topic.

Study: Treating refugees from Western perspective leaves providers and patients lost in translation
12/19/17

University at Buffalo nursing research revealed that Somali Bantu women are open to family planning when methods help to space births of future children, rather than preventing new additions to their families. 

Shaping discussion on food equity
10/17/17

UB researchers served as guest editors of a themed issue of Built Environment that focuses on equity in food systems planning.

UB, international partner launch first global database of food systems planning policies
10/16/17

First-of-its-kind database developed and maintained at UB will help governing bodies around the globe develop better food systems planning policies by drawing from legislation already crafted.

Communities mark two years of progress
9/19/17

Members of the Communities of Excellence gathered to review the impact they have had on education, scholarship and outreach.

Linguistic diversity of Cameroon
8/30/17

UB professor Jeff Good says the African country's many languages are endangered — and so are the ways that people use them.

Diana Aga to receive Schoellkopf Medal
8/23/17

The award honors Aga’s research on the ecological impact of antibiotics, flame retardants and other emerging contaminants.

Bridges and roads as important to your health as what’s in your medicine cabinet
6/22/20
Two seemingly unrelated national policy debates are afoot, and we can’t adequately address one unless we address the other.
Developing study abroad opportunities
7/17/17

A trip to Costa Rica inspires participants in UB's new Study Abroad Incubator.

Improve access to soap, study urges
6/27/17

Researchers find that while handwashing with soap and water prevents childhood disease, access to soap at home varies around the world.

Food for Thought
12/15/17
FEATURE UB Food Lab director Samina Raja is laying the groundwork for a healthier world.
Taking up the global health challenge
6/1/17

Students spent a transformative week developing and refining ideas to address a specific global health issue.

 

Refugee health topic of summit
4/25/17

Speakers and workshop sessions addressed the theme of improving health literacy for Buffalo’s refugee population.

Workshop addresses food inequity
4/11/17

Research grants to promote food quality in the Global South were awarded to teams at UB's inaugural Ideas Lab.

Job Posting: Architecture and Planning
6/22/20
The School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor or associate professor in planning, development, and design for global health equity.
Job Posting: Postdoctoral Associate
6/22/20
Applications are invited for an outstanding postdoctoral scholar to join a university-wide interdisciplinary research initiative on Food Equity and Global Health.
App will help; larger change needed
11/30/16

Google’s Toilet Locator could offer a solution to India’s open defecation problem in cities, but challenges remain in rural areas, a UB expert says.

U.N. ambassador calls Buffalo model city for refugees
11/23/16

Samantha Power attended a town hall meeting at UB on refugee resettlement as part of a daylong visit to Buffalo.

Google Toilet Locator Aims to Curb India's Public Poo Problem
6/22/20
Nearly 620 million people in India defecate in the open, but Google's Toilet Locator is trying to change that.
Music unites students, kids
11/18/16

UB student musicians play a key role in Buffalo String Works' mission to help refugee children learn to play music.

Global Health Equity funds projects
11/15/16

The UB Community of Excellence awards seed funding for projects on refugee issues and air pollution's effects on pregnant women in China.

From Burma to Buffalo: The refugee wave changing our city
6/22/20
Buffalo isn’t shrinking much anymore, and it’s all because of Burmese refugees like Nay Htoo.
Refugees could 'save' America's Rust Belt--Will we let them?
6/22/20
Across the nation, refugees are boosting America’s legacy cities, but encountering resistance from residents. If these cities are to succeed, we must reframe the narrative around refugees—and design could have a pivotal role to play.
Global health theme of IEW
11/7/16

International Education Week activities at UB will focus on refugees and immigrants.

UB Food Lab, UN FAO to lead training session at UN conference in Ecuador
10/10/16

Taking place on World Food Day, Oct. 16, session at Habitat III conference will focus on food systems planning and policy.

Changing the norm promotes change
9/23/16

In the fourth installment in a weekly series, Pavani Ram offers her "big idea" to cultivate a worldwide hand-washing habit

60 Seconds with Ryan Muldoon
12/15/17
To author its 2015 World Development Report, the World Bank put together an interdisciplinary team of economists, political scientists, sociologists—and a lone philosopher. Ryan Muldoon, an assistant professor in UB’s Department of Philosophy who had done prior work for UNICEF, helped guide the thinking behind the report.
Solving hygiene issues to keep kids in school
6/9/16

Through the Global Innovation Challenge, UB students created solutions to an issue that keeps millions from completing school.

“Global Innovation Challenge” to draw attention to international water, sanitation needs
5/12/16

UB undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students will work in teams to develop social, economic, technological and public policy solutions to sanitation challenges faced by schoolchildren around the world.

Vacant building or vibrant housing?
4/5/16

In a spring studio focused on refugees, students are re-envisioning an abandoned silk mill as temporary housing.

Health Summit helps in understanding the refugee experience in Buffalo
6/22/20
What happened when the World Bank asked a philosophy professor to consider its policies
6/22/20
The World Bank, as you might expect, is quick to draw on the knowledge of economists, policymakers, and international-development experts. But for a 2015 report on how our thinking can affect the implementation of development policies, the international institution looked beyond the usual disciplines: it asked a professor of philosophy to contribute.
Celebrating Public Health Week
3/25/16

UB will mark National Public Health Week with events highlighting issues that are important to improving our nation.

Events focus on refugee crisis
3/21/16

Film screenings, symposia and a health summit will address the myriad issues related to this global problem.

Embodying public research mission
3/10/16

Six members of the UB community were recognized on Wednesday for outstanding community engagement activities.

UB students travel to India to help town create sanitation plan
3/1/16
The world’s most pressing problems can’t be solved with one approach or seen through a single lens. That’s the thinking behind a spring studio course offered at UB that aims to help a community in India develop a much-needed public sanitation plan.
U.S. can handle Zika
2/1/16

UB medical geographer Jared Aldstadt says it's unlikely the Zika virus will affect large parts of the country.

US varsity team visits Maradu
6/22/20
A 17-member team from the University at Buffalo (UB), the largest campus in the State University of New York, visited the Maradu municipality on Wednesday.
Embracing refugees
1/14/16

Buffalo's and UB’s reputations for working well with the refugee population were highlighted earlier this week as the city hosted a press tour of foreign journalists.

‘Critical Conversation’ on health
10/8/15

John Borrazzo, a leader in maternal and child health, will give the keynote address in UB’s third annual “Critical Conversations,” a presidential series showcasing distinguished individuals who are helping to shape understanding of vital issues facing the world today.

Critical Conversations: Maternal and Child Health
PBK writing intern a mix of science, humanities
9/21/15

When UB faculty members cite senior Kelly Coughlin’s credentials and accomplishments, her paper, “Too Much of Water,” is front and center.  

The Spectrum: New Communities of Excellence Established
UB invests $25 million to address pressing societal problems regionally and worldwide
5/28/15

UB is investing $25 million in an initiative that will harness the strengths of UB faculty from disciplines across the university to confront grand challenges facing humankind.