Keeping the 'Public' in Public Health
At the Rutgers School of Public Health, we’re educating leaders, putting research into practice, and developing public health solutions rooted in our deep commitment to health equity, social justice, and advocacy.
Our Departments
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
The Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology focuses on biostatistics and epidemiology, as well as other areas like pharmacoepidemiology, through its research, educational programs, and community engagement activities.
Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice
The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice focuses on environmental and occupational health, occupational safety, and environmental sciences, as well as other areas like sustainability and occupational and environmental medicine, through its research, educational programs, and community engagement activities.
Health Behavior, Society and Policy
The Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy focuses on social and behavioral health, health systems and policy, population aging and mental health, as well as other areas like economics and ethics, through its research, educational programs, and community engagement activities.
Urban-Global Public Health
The Department of Urban-Global Public Health focuses on urban and global public health, public health nutrition, LGBTQ health, and other areas like public administration and leadership, through its research, educational programs, and community engagement activities.
Leaders in the Field
The Rutgers School of Public Health is New Jersey’s premier research, teaching, and service institution guided by the principles of health equity and social justice.
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News
The rapidly growing Grandparents for Vaccines (GFV) announced today that Kimberly Boller, PhD, adjunct faculty at the Rutgers School of Public Health and a national leader in nonprofit management, fundraising and community health education, has assumed the role of Inaugural Executive Director.
LGBTQ public health is not a niche issue, it is central to the mission of public health itself. In “LGBTQ Public Health Is Public Health: Advancing Equity When Institutions Falter,” published in the American Journal of Public Health, Perry N. Halkitis, dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health, and Kristen D. Krause, assistant professor and previous director of the school’s LGBTQ Health concentration, trace the evolution of LGBTQ health from grassroots activism during the HIV/AIDS epidemic to its growing institutional presence in academic public health.
Public misunderstanding about medical aid in dying in the United States falls into two distinct categories – misinformation and uncertainty – and each is driven by different forces, according to Rutgers Health researchers.
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