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Faculty Research Leads to Global Health Impact

Faculty Research Leads to Global Health Impact

The principal faculty of Rutgers Global Health Institute are innovators. They’re confronting diverse global health challenges – the critical issues that affect everyone, and the complex problems that are especially detrimental to the most vulnerable among us.

Student-Run Health Clinic Emphasizes Socially Conscious Care

Student-Run Health Clinic Emphasizes Socially Conscious Care

The Student Family Health Care Center at Rutgers serves the severely underserved: Newark residents who might otherwise be unable to access health care. The clinic was created following the 1967 Newark Rebellion, an uprising rooted in simmering frustration over the persistence of oppressive racial inequalities.

Mapping Mexico’s Dengue Fever Hotspots

Mapping Mexico’s Dengue Fever Hotspots

Rutgers researcher Ubydul Haque co-creates a tool to help identify outbreaks and prioritize virus control efforts. Haque is a principal faculty member of Rutgers Global Health Institute.

Oncology Researcher to Join Rutgers Global Health Institute

Oncology Researcher to Join Rutgers Global Health Institute

Wilfred Ngwa develops technologies that integrate with radiation therapy to improve cancer treatment. He also chairs the Lancet Oncology commission on cancer in sub-Saharan Africa and advises the Biden Administration. He will be a professor of global health and radiation oncology.

Will Omicron Show Up On Rapid COVID Tests?

Will Omicron Show Up On Rapid COVID Tests?

Rutgers Global Health Institute principal faculty member Bobby Brooke Herrera spoke with Verywell Health about the use of rapid antigen tests to detect Omicron variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.