Alumna and associate dean Gloria Bachmann is the new chair and medical director of the state's Health Committee of the Commission on Reentry Services for Women.

Two professors of medicine lead clinical trials at Rutgers to facilitate the testing of the COVID-19 vaccines produced by Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.

Rutgers is requiring students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and strongly encouraging faculty and staff to do so. 

Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research gets $10 million to support the New Jersey Population Health Cohort Study.

Corina Lelutiu-Weinberger, at Rutgers School of Nursing, gets a grant to stem infection rates among gay men in Romania, where AIDS is rampant.