Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - 175 Biomedical Education Bldg, Buffalo, NY 14214 Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD Phone: 716-829-5374 jww@buffalo.edu Website: School of Public Health and Health Professions - University at Buffalo Research has demonstrated too many times that lack of reliable transportation can be a barrier to keeping appointments or accessing health care services especially for people living in poverty. We have also learned through research and conversation that delivering critical healthcare and improving health outcomes for our most vulnerable community members can be more effective when tackled with teams and partnering with the community to understand and meet their specific needs. With all of this in mind, and in consideration of the mission and values of the University at Buffalo, we propose creation of a mobile health unit to deliver healthcare, prevention, and navigation services to at-risk members of our community. The Western NY community which the University at Buffalo serves via its array of medical, public health and social service related programs, is diverse and has a broad spectrum of challenges to face. Recent data from the Erie County Department of Health community assessment shows us that in the City of Buffalo, the primary region we plan to serve, 30% of families live in poverty with over 63% of families having women as head of household. Each year, approximately 1,000 children are born to mothers without a high school diploma and 25% of women in Erie County do not receive prenatal care (ECDOH, 2018). The City of Buffalo population is 47.4 % White; 36.7 % Black or African American; 11% Hispanic; 0.5 % Native American/Alaska Native; 5.6 % Asian; 0% is Native Hawaiian and/or Pacific Islander, and 5.8% is some other race. An estimated 4.0% is one or more races (ECDOH, 2018). This initiative builds on the University at Buffalo’s effort to bring medical, prevention and navigation services to one of the most underserved in WNY, Seneca Babcock neighborhood, and many surrounding low-income communities via an interprofessional mobile medical unit improving health, wellness, access, and quality of life for the region.
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