A Rutgers-led consortium has been awarded a $6.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support next-generation tools to guide tobacco control policies, improve lung cancer screening, strengthen survivorship care, and support state-level cancer prevention planning.
With a $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers researchers will conduct one of largest and most comprehensive studies of heart and metabolic conditions among older adults living with HIV.
Abanoub J. Armanious, MS (SPH '26), a Rutgers School of Public Health alumnus, led a study that found that those who stopped or planned to stop taking lemborexant more often described frightening nights and groggy mornings.
A Rutgers-led analysis of health insurance records found that exposure to fine particles from wildfire smoke during pregnancy was associated with a higher risk of autism diagnosis in children, with the strongest associations during the second and third trimesters.
More than 32% of participants in a Rutgers study reported using ChatGPT and similar chatbots for substance-use information. Rutgers Health researchers used survey data from nearly 1,000 participants to examine the frequency and characteristics of people turning to generative artificial intelligence (AI), a subfield of AI that creates synthetic content in response to user prompts, for substance-related information and their perceptions around the results produced by AI.
Federal funding cuts have brought hundreds of public health research projects to an abrupt halt, threatening years of scientific progress and leaving critical questions about disease prevention, health disparities, and community well-being unanswered. Now, two Rutgers School of Public Health scholars are working to ensure that valuable research interrupted by these decisions is not lost.