Translational Research in Communities

We engage in community-based participatory research to improve health and reduce health disparities.

We take an applied, collaborative approach to this research area, inviting community members to more actively participate in the full spectrum of our studies, from conception to completion.

Through our partnerships, we translate knowledge into practice — and into social change. At the same time, we increase awareness and understanding of UB research, equitably involving all of our academic and community partners in our process and recognizing the unique strengths each one brings to it.

Our work in this area helps improve community health, health systems, programs and policies, while reducing health disparities.

Research Projects

Research Centers/Partners

  • Patient Voices Network
    10/1/14

    A network of patient teams from largely disadvantaged neighborhoods that partner with the Primary Care Research Institute to help shape medical practice design, research and quality-improvement initiatives.

  • Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
    2/6/19

    Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Its campus spans 25 acres on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. For more than a century, physician-scientists at Roswell Park have made fundamental contributions to reduce the cancer burden and to help set the national standards for cancer care, research and education.

  • UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute
    3/29/19

    Director: Timothy F. Murphy, MD

    An integrated academic home for UB’s outstanding clinical research and translational science, and the hub of the Buffalo Translational Consortium. The CTSI provides innovative research tools, support, training, resources and coordination.

  • Upstate New York Practice Based Research Network
    4/6/21

    Director: Laurene M. Tumiel Berhalter, PhD

    Investigates questions related to community-based primary care practice. Aims to improve patient care by translating research into practice and by involving practices in research.

Faculty

  • Tumiel Berhalter, Laurene

    Laurene Tumiel Berhalter, PhD

    Director of Community Translational Research

    UB Downtown Gateway Department of Family Medicine 77 Goodell Street, Suite 220N Buffalo, NY 14203

    Phone: 716-816-7278; Fax: 716-845-6899

    Email: tumiel@buffalo.edu