Erin Walsh

Erin Walsh.

Thanks to donors like you, the world will be learning more from Erin.

Erin Walsh was a champion swimmer and an Academic All-American at SUNY Geneseo. Life was good. Then she went to work as a researcher in programs for children who were in the care of child protective services, and for rural suicide prevention, and she saw what hard times look like.

She wished she had a language to describe it.

That brought her to the PhD program in UB’s Department of Community Health and Health Behavior where she is concentrating her research on the role of affect in health behavior decision-making. Her dissertation will look at risky sexual behavior through that lens. Gifts to the school send her to conferences to present her research.