News and Announcements

As of Fall 2023, the Community for Global Health Equity (CGHE) bids farewell to longtime co-director, Dr. Samina Raja, and welcomes Dr. Emmanuel Frimpong Boamah.

CGHE leadership stands committed to supporting the full spectrum of safe and affordable reproductive healthcare. We also are deeply committed to our UB campus and local community, and will assist where possible with research-based, publicly-accessible information related to this ruling.

The report is among the first to detail strategies for local government planners in low- and middle-income countries.

Scientists will use analytical and computational methods to understand how PFAS degrade at each step of the proposed treatment process.

The CTSI Translational Pilot Studies Program provides seed money to investigators to assist them in developing new technologies and therapeutics from the conceptual stage to clinical studies.

Three members of the UB community argue why being stuck at home — and unable to hang out in cafes and bars — drains our creativity.

A UB program helped students from around the world examine their experiences during the pandemic by creating COVID-themed comics.

Team will work with partners in Buffalo and Minneapolis to grow urban agriculture policy from the ground up.

The CTSI has announced the New American Mental Health Advisory Council as the first awardee for its Community Partnership Development Seed Grant Program.

Laura E. Smith will develop a decision-making tool that can plan more effective health campaigns in low- and middle-income countries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.