April 22, 2026, marks Earth Day, with this year’s theme, “Our Power, Our Planet.” Centered on renewable energy and collective action, it serves as a timely call to engage.
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For decades, public health responses to infectious diseases have focused primarily on the biology of pathogens: how viruses spread, how vaccines work and how treatments can stop disease. Rutgers School of Public Health dean, Perry N. Halkitis, author of the forthcoming book Humanizing Public Health: How Disease-Centered Approaches Have Failed Us, discusses why this shift is needed as the world prepares for future health crises.
A public health professor is working to head off students’ anxiety over one of the foundational—but challenging—subjects in the field
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.
Imagine waking up before sunrise to nature’s chorus, trusting that the river near your home will provide your family with nutritious food and sustain life in the community. Yet, each year, shifting seasonal patterns make the river more unpredictable and its bounty scarcer.