The Community Leadership Center Hispanic Heritage Month symposium marks one year following Hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico and triggered a critical process to identify new methods to reconstruct and revitalize communities and people’s lives. The following speakers will discuss how to re-imagine, re-invent, re-shape, and re-think Puerto Rico around the issues of education, health, […]

The Rutgers chapters of Global Surgery Student Alliance (GSSA) present an introduction to the expanding impact of global surgery on global health. Gregory Peck, DO, FASC, assistant professor in the acute care surgery division at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a faculty leader for Rutgers Global Surgery, will lead a discussion on the collaborative […]

Rutgers School of Public Health presents a conference that will bring together researchers, community-based organizations, policy makers, advocates, students, and community members to foster conversations on some of the most important health issues facing urban areas in New Jersey. Topics include: Marijuana Legalization: Public Health Advance or Setback?; The Life and Health of African American Mothers […]

Rutgers Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease (CEED) presents an environmental health conference focused on the public health impacts of New Jersey's port activities on port-adjacent communities. The overall goal of the event will be to educate the greater community and articulate solutions that improve the health and well-being in affected communities. The Ironbound Community […]

This full-day symposium is presented by Rutgers Global Health Institute and the New York Academy of Sciences. The outright repudiation of scientific facts is a longstanding, global phenomenon, and negative consequences are vast for science, public health, global conservation, and beyond. There is no single way to categorize science deniers, complicating efforts to overcome science […]

The Institute for Women's Leadership Consortium and Rutgers Global present the 2018 Anita Ashok Datar Lecture on Women's Global Health, featuring Cecile Richards. Richards is a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic justice, and the author of New York Times bestseller Make Trouble:Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead. As President of Planned Parenthood […]

The New Jersey Medical School Office of Global Health presents a lecture by Suzanne Willard as part of its monthly Interdisciplinary Global Health Lecture Series. Dr. Willard, associate dean for global health in the Rutgers School of Nursing, will review global health nursing opportunities and discuss the School of Nursing's global initiatives. Dr. Willard's area […]

The Rutgers School of Nursing and School of Public Health present "HIV/AIDS and Aging," a second annual event commemorating World AIDS Day. Continuing education contact hours are available. Visit the event website for the full agenda. Highlights include: Keynote Address "HIV and Aging: Where are We Now?" Jesse Milan Jr. President and CEO, AIDS United […]

The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences presents a lecture by virologist Margo Vignuzzi of Institut Pasteur in Paris. The talk, entitled "Fighting virus infection from within: predicting and altering virus evolution," will be particularly relevant to those interested in the evolution of chikungunya and other arboviruses, as well as any enteroviruses. Life Sciences Building […]

The Office of Global Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School presents its Annual Global Health Fair, featuring poster presentations and keynote speaker XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, and Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences. Dr. Dong, a renowned population epidemiologist and health […]

Rutgers Global and university partners present a screening of the French feature film, BPM (Beats per Minute) to commemorate this year's World AIDS Day and Day without Art. The film narrates the story of a group of activists in Paris in the early 1980s—members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)—who go to battle for those stricken […]

Rutgers University Health Equity Academic Researchers (RU-HEAR) presents a talk by Alonzo Plough of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He will share his perspectives on approaches to funding health equity research and discuss the foundation's major investigator-driven research programs and policy initiatives. Dr. Plough joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as chief science officer and vice […]

Learn about what Rutgers and RWJBarnabas Health are doing to address health care accessibility in New Jersey.

This lunchtime event will showcase the work of students in the NJMS Distinction Program in Global Health.

The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research (IFH) presents a brown bag seminar by Rutgers faculty members Frank Thompson and Michael Gusmano. Thompson is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Public Affairs and Administration in IFH’s Center for State Health Policy. Gusmano, who received a 2017 Rutgers Global Health Institute seed […]

Rutgers Global Surgery and the Global Surgery Student Alliance present a lunchtime lecture by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School alumnus, Harvard Medical School faculty member, and renowned global neurosurgeon Kee B. Park.