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Gregory G. Homish

PhD

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Gregory G. Homish

PhD

Gregory G. Homish

PhD

Chair
Professor
Department of Community Health and Health Behavior
School of Public Health and Health Professions

Research Topics

Substance use and misuse; social network influences on changes in substance use; impact of substance use on family functioning and health; emergency preparedness, preparation, coordination and training of rural disaster response teams; and mitigation of the impact of disaster response on the health of first responders.

Overview News

UB News

  • 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.
  • Binge drinking and cannabis use among 12th graders
    12/10/25

    Smoking, vaping and dabbing all were associated with any past two-week binge drinking occurrence among high school seniors who used two or more cannabis products.

  • Federal grant is helping UB address shortage of public health workers
    3/6/23

    Training program is intended to help students from underrepresented backgrounds finance advancing their public health education. 

  • Expanding UB’s alcoholism research training program
    6/28/21

    A $1.7 million grant from the NIAAA will allow UB to train pre-doctoral students in addition to postdocs.

  • Homish named chair of community health and health behavior at UB
    11/27/19

    A trained psychiatric epidemiologist, Homish studies substance use and mental health, particularly within the context of the military.

  • Do Opioid Intervention Courts work? UB study will provide the answer
    10/30/19

    UB study will compare Opioid Intervention Court and traditional drug court in four key areas, providing policymakers and providers with evidence of OIC’s effectiveness.

  • SPHHP offers new online MPH
    9/13/19

    Online program lets students take advantage of the same foundational public health education as the classroom-based individualized MPH.

  • New UB study sheds light on perceptions of e-cigs
    3/3/17

    Results suggest that product satisfaction, perceived harm or danger and product type all work together to promote use or avoidance, researchers say.

  • Studying combat soldiers' resiliency
    3/22/18

    Perception of trauma and marriage satisfaction strongly influence how soldiers deal with trauma from combat, a UB study has found.

  • Studying health of military personnel
    12/17/18

    Public health researcher Gregory Homish has been awarded a $2.7 million NIH grant to continue his work examining health outcomes among members of the military.