URMC Taps Edith Williams to Lead the Center for Community Health & Prevention

Edith Williams, MS, PhD, who joined the UR CTSI as the founding director of the Office of Health Equity Research in 2022, is now serving as director of the Center for Community Health & Prevention.

Office of Health Equity Research Welcomes New Youth Advisory Board

University of Rochester researchers can meet with the new Youth Advisory Board to get a youth perspective on their research projects and for help identifying future research needs aimed at improving adolescent health.

Fiscella and Yousefi Nooraie Envision a Community-Focused Complementary Pathway for Translational Research

In “Health first, for all: Envisioning a novel complementary pathway for translational research,” Fiscella and Yousefi Nooraie envision a second complementary translational research pathway that works in tandem with the current biomedical-based pathway.

Protecting the Vulnerable, Informing the Future

In the early days of the COVID pandemic, members of the UR CTSI partnered with the URMC Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and the Mary Cariola Center to study how COVID spread, so they could protect kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Expressing Health Equity Through Art

Local K-12 students showed the University of Rochester Medical Center what health equity looks like to them in a recent art contest held by our Office of Health Equity Research.