Research and Training
Our Research
Supported by the school’s Office of Research, faculty staff, and students are actively engaged in scholarship to advance public health. Faculty-led research programs reflect a broad range of topics, including modern quantitative and qualitative methods, bioethics, cancer health disparities, environmental health justice, health reform and access to care, infectious diseases, LGBTQ health, occupational health, population aging, sexual and reproductive health, maternal health, substance use and mental health, translational science, pharmacoepidemiology, violence prevention, and more.
Office of Research
The school's Office of Research seeks to advance the health and wellbeing and prevent diseases throughout New Jersey, the United States, and the world by supporting the school’s research portfolio.
The office:
- Facilitates the proposal application, agreement, and award process
- Communicates and coordinates sources of financial support for research
- Supports and oversees the performance of compliant research activity
Research By-the-Numbers
Research supported by the Office of Research improves the health and well being of people and populations in New Jersey, the United States, and the world.
Big Ten ranking in federal FY 2025 NIH funding, placing Rutgers among the conference's leading schools of public health.
Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research
National ranking in federal FY 2025 NIH funding among 70 schools of public health.
Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research
Total research funding received by Rutgers School of Public Health faculty, staff, and students in FY 2025, advancing discoveries that improve health and well-being for all people and populations.