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This interactive map displays global health project information submitted by Rutgers University faculty from across the entire university. These projects convey Rutgers’ diverse efforts in research, education and training, and service and capacity building.

Hold a globe in your hand and place your finger anywhere on its surface. You have touched a place where people are affected by global health issues. “Global health issues […]

James Simon serves as principal investigator (with Rutgers’ Daniel Hoffman as co-PI) on a USAID program linking horticulture and African indigenous vegetables (AIVs), in South African Development Community countries, to […]

Rutgers professor and pediatric infectious diseases expert Glenn Fennelly is featured in a five-part Contagion video series about measles. He discusses vaccination, individual state laws, exemption definitions, and the role clinicians and public health officials play in these measles outbreaks. Christina Tan, an assistant commissioner of health for New Jersey, is also featured.

Public health faculty member Michael Gusmano expands his city-focused research to the BRIC countries, aiming to help policymakers focus their health efforts—and budgets—by pinpointing successes and disparities.

Global Health Education at Rutgers: An undergraduate course taught by Daniel Van Abs in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences introduces students to the politics of international water relations and the broad spectrum of ways that water influences societal development.

During the 24-hour fundraising event, Rutgers Global Health Institute raised $16,450 through donations from 162 individuals and challenge grants. The funds will be used to help Rutgers students and faculty confront health disparities, locally and worldwide.

Javier Escobar, MD, MSc, is a professor emeritus at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the former associate dean of the school’s Office of Global Health. Escobar’s research activities have […]

Margie Heller is a leader of the Social Impact and Community Investment Practice, a collaborative effort among RWJBarnabas Health, facility leaders, and community stakeholders to eliminate health care disparities and […]

Programs to prevent HIV in transgender women are helping to lower the rate of new infection, but better care and treatment of this vulnerable population are still needed, especially among those with lower income or people of color, according to a study led by core faculty member Henry Raymond, an associate professor at the School of Public Health.