Keeping the 'Public' in Public Health

The Rutgers University Board of Governors appointed Emily S. Barrett, professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, to the George G. Rhoads Endowed Legacy Professorship in recognition of her research on the early origins of health and disease and how exposures early in life shape human health and developmental trajectories.

The Rutgers Board of Governors also appointed Nir Eyal, professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health and a bioethicist whose renowned work in population-level bioethics focuses on health inequalities, health promotion, and research ethics, as the first holder of the Dr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Bergen Jr. Chair in Biomedical Ethics.

Rutgers Health study finds that infants whose mothers have mild and moderate to severe depressive symptoms had more emergency department visits than those who had no symptoms

While the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in 2022 allowed states to limit or ban abortion access, its effects have included many Americans losing access to non-abortion reproductive services such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), family planning and other reproductive health services, according to Rutgers Health and University of Oklahoma researchers.