With this inaugural blog, the Rutgers School of Public Health’s Office of Community Engagement, Population Health, and Global Public Health is launching a monthly space to share our experiences, celebrate partnerships, reflect on lessons learned, and highlight the individuals and organizations working together to build healthier, more equitable communities.
Instructors with the Rutgers Center for Public Health Workforce Development share their memories from the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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.
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.