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.

Edith Williams Named Founding Director of the New Office of Health Equity Research

Rochester native Edith M. Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, will join URMC as the founding director of the Office of Health Equity Research, which is housed in the UR CTSI, on September 1.

UR CTSI Funding Leads to New Grant for Childhood Tooth Decay Prevention App

URMC researchers are building on previous funding from the UR CTSI to develop a smartphone app that can detect and prevent severe tooth decay in underserved kids and improve their overall well-being.

Six Feet Saves COVID-19 Campaign Receives Local Community Award

The UR CTSI and Center for Community Health & Prevention (CCHP) played pivotal roles in developing the "Six Feet Saves" campaign, which emphasized the importance of social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19. The campaign was awarded the W. B. Potter Founders Award by Causewave Community Partners.