Annual Lectures

There is a great deal of evidence now that diet affects cancer risk. That connection wasn’t obvious, though, in the 1950s, when Buffalo-born researcher L. Saxon Graham began breaking new ground in cancer epidemiology. Over the next half-century, Graham contributed some of the most important research on diet and cancer.

The Saxon Graham Lectureship honors the life and legacy of a man known as one of the fathers of U.S. chronic disease epidemiology.

The 11th Annual Saxon Graham Lecture was presented by Julie Mares, PhD, MSPH, on Friday, March 3, 2017.

In the spring of 2011, the School of Public Health and Health Professions hosted its inaugural Glen E. Gresham Visiting Professor in Rehabilitation Science, a position endowed by the late Albert C. Rekate, a veteran UB medical school faculty member, and his wife, Linda.

The 7th Annual Glen E. Gresham Lecture was held Friday, April 28, 2016, at 2 p.m. in 146 Diefendorf Hall, UB South Campus.

The School of Public Health and Health Professions has established an annual lectureship to honor Richard V. Lee, MD, MPH, former faculty member at the University at Buffalo (UB).  The annual lecture will focus on aspects of global health. 

The J. Warren Perry Award and Distinguished Lectureship is the School of Public Health and Health Professions’ lecture series honoring the late J. Warren Perry, PhD, founding dean of the School of Health Related Professions.

The 28th Annual J. Warren Perry Lecture will be held on Friday, Nov. 4, 2016 in the Butler Auditorium (150 Farber Hall) on UB's South Campus.