Labs & Groups
Learn about the school's many research labs and groups.
Arts in Health Research Lab
Building on a growing field of Arts in Health across the country and around the world, Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers School of Public Health, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center have joined in an interdisciplinary partnership to launch the Arts in Health Research Lab. The goals of the Arts in Health Research Lab are to perform Arts in Health research that benefits populations across the state of New Jersey, innovate new research strategies including arts-based research methods and art-as-data collection, and establish a research plan to assess the health impact of NJPAC and Mason Gross arts experiences and programs.
Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence
The Cancer Health Equity Center of Excellence is a formal partnership between the Rutgers School of Public Health and the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, which serves as a catalyst for training and education, research, community engagement, and public policy advocacy surrounding cancer health equity in one of the nation’s most ethnically and racially diverse states. The center’s mission is to advance the achievement of equitable access, improved health care quality, and better outcomes across the cancer continuum – prevention, early detection, treatment, survivorship, and end-of-life care – through research, education and training, community engagement and outreach, and public policy advocacy.
Center for South Asian Quantitative Health & Education
The Center for South Asian Quantitative Health & Education was established in 2019 by the Rutgers School of Public Health to be a leader in quantitative public health to better understand, communicate, and advance the health of South Asians living in New Jersey and across the globe. The center, which was launched in collaboration with the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, strives to realize this vision through its mission of achieving equitable health care access and better health outcomes in South Asians through: (1) community engagement to gain insights into their health attitudes and perceptions; (2) quantitative scientific research to understand unique risk factors and socio-cultural factors contributing to cancer and allied diseases in this population; and (3) education, training and communication to advance their quality of health and health care. The Center collaborates with colleagues from multiple disciplines including cancer epidemiology, genomic sciences, health equity, surveillance, and public health from Rutgers and elsewhere.
Website coming soon.
Community Living Education Project
Since 1991, the Community Living Education Project (CLEP) has been committed to providing information and education regarding community living resources for people with intellectual /developmental disabilities living in New Jersey. CLEP uses a multi-faceted approach that includes hosting learning events, outreach and ongoing support, visits to community settings, and publications and media services. CLEP offers these free services to individuals, their families, staff and other stakeholders, and is supported by the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Developmental Disabilities.
New Jersey Safe Schools Program and Field Research Dry Lab
New Jersey Safe Schools (NJ SS) is a project supported by the New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Career Readiness, to assist schools in reducing risk to occupational safety and health hazards in secondary school and work microenvironments in which NJ adolescents spend time. The project is administered by the Rutgers-School of Public Health. NJ SS involves a number of outreach components designed to support teachers, administrators, safety and health designees, structured learning experience/career orientation coordinators, county apprenticeship coordinators, cooperative education coordinators and those involved in school-to-careers.
Shiau Research Group
Areas of Research
- Timing of antiretroviral therapy and health outcomes in neonates and infants with HIV
- Comorbidities among people growing up and aging with HIV
- Molecular biomarkers of HIV, antiretroviral therapy, and aging with HIV
- Inflammation and epigenetic mechanisms in perinatal epidemiology
