The School of Health Professions Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences and the School of Public Health Department of Urban-Global Public Health will jointly host a nutrition colloquium featuring Rutgers faculty who engage in nutrition research and education globally. The goal of the colloquium is to bring together faculty and students with an interest […]

Rutgers Global Health Institute and the Rutgers Office of Research Commercialization present a lunchtime lecture by Joseph Camardo, MD, FCPP, senior vice president of Celgene Global Health. Camardo will discuss the importance of teams in global health, his own career experience, and Celgene’s role as a partner in advancing treatment and care for chronic diseases and […]

New Jersey Medical School's Office of Global Health presents the third annual Global Health and Surgery Research Symposium. The event will feature a poster session followed by keynote speakers Kiran Thakur, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, and Timothy Tan, MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Medical Science Building, B-556, 185 South Orange Avenue, […]

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 […]