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The STAR Program at SUNY Downstate Launches “Faster Than” Campaign to Promote Testing for Hepatitis C

August 16, 2020 9:09 pm

The STAR Program at SUNY Downstate Launches “Faster Than” Campaign to Promote Testing for Hepatitis C

STAR Program receives a grant to expand our mission to train health professionals for opioid addiction treatment.

January 13, 2020 11:17 am

New York City seeing more overdose deaths involving heroin. Suny Downstate is receiving a 450- thousand-dollar grant to expand its STAR Program which helps train health professionals for opioid addiction treatment. ##... View Article

The Parenting Journey Never Stops

May 14, 2018 10:33 am

Raising four children as a single mom should earn you the Doctorate of Motherhood degree. But parenting doesn’t work that... View Article

STAR Program Profile: Jean Richard

May 8, 2018 10:16 am

Jean Richard is a Community Health Worker with the STAR Program’s Supportive Counseling Program It’s a road Jean Richard has traveled himself, having... View Article

SUNY Downstate Medicine Department Chair Dr. Moro Salifu receives prestigious Master recognition from the American College of Physicians

May 4, 2018 9:56 am

Dr. Salifu is the only State University of New York Academic Medical Center physician, and only Brooklyn physician to be... View Article

National Coalition of STD Directors respond to banned words at the CDC

December 18, 2017 4:01 pm

We were disturbed to read the Washington Post article, “CDC gets list of forbidden words: Fetus, transgender, diversity” which reports a... View Article

Policy to ensure justice and services for transgender and gender nonconforming New Yorkers

November 27, 2017 12:44 pm

Cooperating agencies unveiled a policy brief November 20, 2017, the Transgender Day of Remembrance, on the steps of New York... View Article

STAR Center’s Tyler Martinson honored for Professionalism

September 27, 2017 3:58 pm

Tyler Martinson, care coordinator for the STAR Health Center, was honored for Professionalism this week in SUNY Downstate’s quarterly Employee... View Article