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Newswise: Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health as Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Health Practice
Released: 10-Jan-2022 11:10 AM EST
Rafael E. Pérez-Figueroa Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health as Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Public Health Practice
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Newswise: Assistant Dean Receives Student Services Excellence Award
Released: 20-Dec-2021 3:05 PM EST
Assistant Dean Receives Student Services Excellence Award
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Newswise: Andrea Villanti Joins the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies and Rutgers School of Public Health
Released: 9-Dec-2021 1:35 PM EST
Andrea Villanti Joins the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies and Rutgers School of Public Health
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

   
Newswise: The Challenge Before Us
Released: 30-Nov-2021 12:05 PM EST
The Challenge Before Us
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Released: 25-Oct-2021 4:05 PM EDT
Public Health x Art
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Newswise: Faculty Receive Burke Foundation Funding to Develop Sustainability Tool for Doula Programs
Released: 12-Oct-2021 4:40 PM EDT
Faculty Receive Burke Foundation Funding to Develop Sustainability Tool for Doula Programs
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Newswise: Zorimar Rivera-Núñez Joins Tenure Track at Rutgers School of Public Health
Released: 11-Oct-2021 5:40 PM EDT
Zorimar Rivera-Núñez Joins Tenure Track at Rutgers School of Public Health
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Newswise: Doctoral Student Receives National Institutes of Health Fellowship to Assess the Physical Fitness of Firefighters
Released: 22-Sep-2021 9:45 AM EDT
Doctoral Student Receives National Institutes of Health Fellowship to Assess the Physical Fitness of Firefighters
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Newswise: Telehealth May Help Smokers in Rural Prisons Quit Tobacco Smoking
Released: 21-Sep-2021 5:45 PM EDT
Telehealth May Help Smokers in Rural Prisons Quit Tobacco Smoking
Rutgers School of Public Health

Telehealth smoking cessation treatment programs can reduce tobacco-related disparities among incarcerated smokers, according to a Rutgers study.

Newswise: Faculty Receives National Institutes of Health Sexual and Gender Minority Early-Stage Investigator Award
Released: 17-Sep-2021 2:20 PM EDT
Faculty Receives National Institutes of Health Sexual and Gender Minority Early-Stage Investigator Award
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Newswise: Faculty Receives National Institutes of Health Grant to Further Single-cell RNA Sequencing Analysis
Released: 13-Sep-2021 7:40 PM EDT
Faculty Receives National Institutes of Health Grant to Further Single-cell RNA Sequencing Analysis
Rutgers School of Public 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.

Newswise: Kristen D. Krause Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health
Released: 7-Sep-2021 11:05 AM EDT
Kristen D. Krause Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Released: 2-Sep-2021 2:05 PM EDT
Rutgers Faculty Receives Grant to Improve End-of-Life Cancer Care
Rutgers School of 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.

Released: 31-Aug-2021 2:50 PM EDT
Gwyneth M. Eliasson Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Released: 26-Aug-2021 10:20 AM EDT
Program Awarded New Jersey Department of Education Program Support
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Released: 25-Aug-2021 2:05 PM EDT
Faculty Receives Grant to Monitor Real-Time Suicidal Thoughts Among Chinese Adolescents
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

   
Released: 24-Aug-2021 11:50 AM EDT
Faculty Receive Grant to Assess COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Sexual and Gender Minorities
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Released: 24-Aug-2021 11:00 AM EDT
Faculty Receives National Institutes of Health Grant to Assess the Implications of Opioid Use Among Older Adults Living with HIV
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

Released: 24-Aug-2021 10:35 AM EDT
Faculty Receives National Institutes of Health Grant to Implement a Mobile Messaging Intervention to Enhance Feeding Practices in Senegal
Rutgers School of Public Health

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.

   


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