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Read our Q&A to learn what Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom has to say about challenges facing the health care system in the U.S. and what they mean for health care in New Jersey in advance of a symposium Tuesday on the issue hosted by Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health.
Older adults who have 10 to 19 teeth are at higher risk for malnutrition.
Nancy DiTomaso has spent her career studying the ways in which race, gender, and culture create or deny job and career opportunities. Her 2013 book, The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism, examines the ways in which inequality is reproduced – not through discrimination against minorities but through advantages afforded whites. Learn more about DiTomaso, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick.
The new initiative will focus the university’s expertise in public health, criminal justice and other fields on a nationwide problem. The center, highlighted during a lecture with former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will conduct multidisciplinary research on the causes, consequences and solutions to firearm-related violence.
Student food pantries across Rutgers help fill the gaps for groceries while removing the stigma around food insecurity. Learn why food pantries are important to help students facing challenging times succeed academically and how to help support them at Rutgers.
Thanks to an innovative mosquito control approach developed at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, residents in several Maryland neighborhoods reduced populations of invasive Asian tiger mosquitoes by an impressive 76 percent, on average.
For diabetics, managing high blood pressure may help to prevent life-threatening organ damage according to a Rutgers study. The study findings suggests that extremely high blood pressure, not just diabetes, is responsible for severe organ damage due to hypertensive emergencies in African-Americans with diabetes.
Natasha Hemmings, the new chief executive officer for the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey, is working to bring scouting to parts of the state where the organization has not traditionally had a strong presence – in cities such as Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey City, and Irvington. Find out how her degree from the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark helped shape her career.
Alumni with young children gathered on the president’s lawn for pony rides, a petting zoo, fun crafts and hayrides with President Barchi on Saturday. Read why alumni say the President's Family Fall Festival is becoming an annual tradition for their families.
A multimillion-dollar grant will help Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) provide assistance beyond traditional outpatient services to 4,000 people over the next two years. Adults with mental illness and substance abuse disorders, as well as children with serious emotional disturbances, will be offered access to high-quality, community-based services.
Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions including hypertension, diabetes, and asthma despite differences in family income and health insurance, according to a recent study led by Alan Monheit and Irina Grafova at Rutgers School of Public Health.