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A new study co-authored by UB Professor Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk is making waves among the field of medical sociology as it explores racial and ethnic disparities in pain prevalence. This research will be used to identify which groups are most at risk to needing access to pain management and prevention strategies. 

UB's Department of Surgery is helping to codify East Side community resilience by offering free clinics that provides physicals, disease screenings, and referrals to residents of the Fruit Belt, Cold Spring, and Masten neighborhoods. These clinics - named Kickstart Buffalo - are working to emphasize community care by acknowledging disparities in healthcare access suffered by underserved communities. 

The Jacobs School of Medicine has received the National Institute of Health's (NIH) R25 grant to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the biomedical informatics and data science discipline, furthering UB's reputation as an equitable supplier of innovative strategies in the greater field of medicine. 

UB's RENEW Institute has been awarded over $2.6 million in grants by the National Science Foundation and the Env. Protection Agency to continue their work on developing self-sustaining water supplies, soil health monitoring systems, and research in understanding mixture toxicity in the breakdown process of 'forever chemicals.'