Rutgers School of Public Health staff and alumni will be honored at the New Jersey Public Health Association’s (NJPHA) Annual Conference and Award Ceremony on April 21, 2023, for their outstanding commitment to public health in New Jersey.
As a school that espouses zero tolerance for harassment and discrimination, the Rutgers School of Public Health has made the decision to leave Twitter based on recent events.
The Rutgers School of Public Health’s Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) premiered the short film “Queer Health: Advancing LGBTQ+ Health Equity.”
Rutgers School of Public Health professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health, Laura Lindberg, PhD, has received the 2022 Carl S. Schultz Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sexual and Reproductive Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
Stephanie Shiau, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor in the Rutgers School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, received the 2022 Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the American Public Health Association Epidemiology Section.
Wendy Purcell, PhD, FRSA, has joined the Rutgers School of Public Health as a professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice.
Mackey Reuel Friedman, PhD, MPH, has joined the Rutgers School of Public Health as an associate professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health.
The Rutgers School of Public Health will be virtually hosting leading public health scientists, clinicians, and community leaders on Friday, August 5, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., to discuss the current monkeypox outbreak in the United States.
Ayana April-Sanders PhD, MPH, will be joining the Rutgers School of Public Health as an instructor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Rutgers School of Public Health associate professor, Liangyuan Hu, has received a $3,301,474 grant (R01HL159077) from the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Katie Darabos, PhD, will be joining the Rutgers School of Public Health as an instructor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy in July.
The Rutgers School of Public Health has launched New Jersey’s first Master of Science (MS) in Epidemiology with a concentration in Pharmacoepidemiology degree. This new program will begin enrolling full-time and part-time students for the Fall 2022 semester.
Jose Guillermo Cedeño Laurent, MSc, ScD, will be joining the Rutgers School of Public Health as assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice. Cedeño Laurent will also serve as a resident faculty member of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute within its Division of Environmental and Population Health Biosciences.
Rutgers School of Public Health associate professor, Liangyuan Hu, has received a three-year $1,069,876 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) contract.
André Sayegh, Mayor of the City of Paterson, has been named the 2022 Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Awardee by the Rutgers School of Public Health. He will also serve as the School’s speaker at their 39th graduation ceremony.
Laura Lindberg, PhD, will be joining the Rutgers School of Public Health as a professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health.
The Rutgers School of Public Health’s New Jersey Safe Schools Program utilized a statewide platform to conduct a survey on school emergency preparedness and built environment attributes by evaluating teacher concerns and perceptions in the fall of 2019.
The Rutgers School of Public Health has launched New Jersey’s first fully online Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Global Public Health, which is enrolling students for the Fall 2022 semester.
Merlene Fredricks, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., has joined the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health as an associate professor and will play a central role in the development and launch of the first fully online Master of Public Health degree offered by the school.
Cui Yang Ph.D., M.A., will be joining the Rutgers School of Public Health as an associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy in February of 2022.
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Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa, M.D., M.P.H., will be joining the Rutgers School of Public Health as the Associate Dean of Community Engagement and Public Health Practice in February of 2022.
Rutgers School of Public Health Assistant Dean for Student Services and Alumni Affairs, Michael Vega, has received the 2022 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Student Services Excellence Award.
Andrea Villanti, PhD, MPH, will be joining the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies as the deputy director in January 2022. She will also join the Rutgers School of Public Health as an associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy.
Rutgers School of Public Health alum, Molly McCauley GSNB’89, MPH’89, reflects on the pandemic and steps that need to be taken to eliminate health disparities.
The Rutgers School of Public Health and the Mason Gross School of the Arts have launched a collaboration to support community-engaged, arts-integrated research projects that will result in performances or productions of art.
Rutgers School of Public Health’s Slawa Rokicki, instructor in the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy, and Leslie M. Kantor, professor and chair of the Department of Urban-Global Public Health, have received a Burke Foundation grant to utilize existing data from doula programs to develop a tool that can be used by programs throughout New Jersey to assess service models that can lead to program sustainability.
The Rutgers School of Public Health is excited to announce that Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, PhD, MS, is now a tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Rutgers School of Public Health doctoral student, Nimit Shah, has received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (F31HL160196) to study the predictors and barriers of physical fitness among volunteer firefighters.
Telehealth smoking cessation treatment programs can reduce tobacco-related disparities among incarcerated smokers, according to a Rutgers study.
Rutgers School of Public Health assistant professor, Devin English, has received the 2021 Sexual and Gender Minority Early-Stage Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Rutgers School of Public Health assistant professor, Wei Vivian Li, has received a five-year $1,953,068 National Institute of General Medical Sciences Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (R35GM142702) to develop novel statistical methods and bioinformatics software to further analyze RNA sequencing data at the single-cell level.
The Rutgers School of Public Health is excited to announce that Kristen D. Krause, PhD, MPH, has joined the Department of Urban-Global Public Health.
Paul Duberstein, chair of the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy at Rutgers School of Public Health and associate research member at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, has received a New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research grant to evaluate the impact of a communication intervention that seeks to improve the care of patients with advanced cancer.
The Rutgers School of Public Health is excited to announce that Gwyneth M. Eliasson, JD, MPH, has joined the Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy as an assistant professor.
The Rutgers School of Public Health’s New Jersey Safe Schools Program has received support from the New Jersey Department of Education, the NJ Safe Schools Cohort of New Work-Based Learning Teachers, which will aid in the development and delivery of supervisory-level secondary education professional certification training focusing on work-based learning experiences to New Jersey Career and Technical Education secondary school teachers and administrators.
Rutgers School of Public Health professor and Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty, Vincent M. Silenzio, has received a 2021 Global Health Seed Grant from Rutgers Global Health Institute in partnership with Rutgers Global.
Rutgers School of Public Health dean, Perry N. Halkitis, and Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies deputy director, Kristen D. Krause, have received a grant from the Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada) Investigator Studies Program (MISP) to examine COVID-19 and HPV vaccine uptake in sexual and gender minority populations living in New Jersey.
Rutgers School of Public Health assistant professor, Stephanie Shiau, has received a Career Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study the implications of opioid prescription use among older adults living with HIV.
Rutgers School of Public Health assistant professor, Shauna Downs, has received a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development to study behavior change communication strategies to improve infant and young child nutrition in Senegal.
Chen-Sankey, PhD, will join the Center and School in the fall of 2021
Rutgers School of Public Health dean, Perry N. Halkitis, has been named the 2021 PROUD Leadership Award recipient by Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.
Rutgers School of Public Health faculty, Jaya Satagopan and Stephanie Shiau, have been named 2021 recipients of the New Jersey Health Foundation Excellence Awards.
Liangyuan Hu, PhD, joins the School as an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Hao Liu, PhD, joins the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Rutgers School of Public Health and serves as the Director of Biostatistics Shared Resource at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
The Rutgers School of Public Health’s Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies is collaborating with the Newark Salvation Army to host a virtual conversation about the health needs of the LGBTQ+ community in Newark and New Jersey.
Rutgers School of Public Health is pleased to announce that GSK Consumer Healthcare has created a full-tuition scholarship to support a graduate student from a historically underrepresented group.
The Rutgers School of Public Health invites you to join its inaugural Pride Week events happening between June 9–11, 2021.
Stigma and discrimination, such as homophobia and racism, impede engagement in HIV prevention and use of biomedical tools for treatment in both HIV-negative and HIV-positive gay and bisexual men, according to a Rutgers study.
Shauna Downs, assistant professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, has been awarded a grant from the Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions program to develop tools that will allow researchers to measure natural and built food environments in low- and middle- income countries.
Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist, has been named the 2021 Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Awardee by the Rutgers School of Public Health. She will serve as the School’s speaker at their 38th graduation ceremony, which will virtually launch on May 14, 2021.
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