Education & Training
As a mentee working with our division, you can take advantage of three levels of training: immersive, applied and supportive mentoring. You’ll work with a multidisciplinary team and will be mentored in a group approach.
We provide mentorship for research across levels of trainees — including undergraduates, graduate students, doctoral students, medical students, residents and fellows.
We welcome trainees within the the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, as well as departments across the University at Buffalo campuses, the larger SUNY system and external institutions.
Faculty members in our division are equipped to provide training and mentoring across a broad spectrum of areas, including:
- social determinants of health, social risk and health related social needs with specific expertise in the food environment — and associations with chronic disease prevalence, outcomes and complications
- health system quality improvement
- health care cost and cost benefit analyses
- structural inequalities and structural racism, with specific expertise in historic redlining and inequities at the census tract level, and association with chronic disease, mental health and health indices
- artificial intelligence (AI) and health outcomes, with specific expertise in predictive models and causal inference methodologies
Are you a mentee who is interested in learning community-based research skills? You have the option of participating in recruitment for ongoing clinical trials and minimal risk research with behavioral health interventions using a community-based research approach. Topics include food insecurity and older adults at risk for cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline.
To suit the needs of trainees at all stages of learning, we offer multiple levels of research mentorship:
Immersive mentoring
Mentees engage in experiential learning by directly participating in the research process including front line data collection, data entry and engagement with the operational aspects of a protocol.
In addition, we offer mentees didactic training in topics related to health services research.
Expect to spend 3 to 5 hours per week/month on immersive training.
Applied mentoring
With 1 to 2 hours per week/month spent on applied training, mentees receive guidance on:
- developing a research question
- searching the literature
- writing a data analysis plan
- working with co-authors to organize and construct a manuscript
- participating in the submission process for publication
Supportive mentoring
As a trainee receiving supportive mentoring, you can expect tailored support depending on your research needs, including but not limited to:
- manuscript idea generation
- grant idea brainstorming
- grant writing support
- guidance on submission processes
Our mentees work with a multidisciplinary team and are mentored via a group approach. Each mentee has the opportunity to engage with all participating faculty through group mentorship, didactic sessions and brainstorming activities.
To help mentees develop their manuscripts, we’re proud to offer each mentee the opportunity to work alongside one faculty member, who will be assigned as a primary content mentor.
Explore faculty profiles and bibliographies of participating mentors:
Further, Leonard E. Egede, MD, serves as an overarching mentor. Although he does not currently offer direct mentorship, he is eager to engage with mentees through group mentorship and brainstorming sessions, as well as providing sessions on specific content exposure.