Institute director Richard Marlink discusses social determinants of health in this NJ.com story about the Commonwealth Fund’s new report, “Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: A Scorecard of State Performance.”
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COVID-19 Vaccine Receives Emergency Use Authorization for Children 5 to 11
Rutgers faculty member Simon Li, a principal investigator in the Rutgers pediatric clinical trial for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, addresses questions about the vaccine rollout for this age group.
Student Council Leaders Reflect On Pandemic Experiences
Co-presidents Brooke Margolin, a public health major, and Laura Palm, a musician with an M.D. degree, talk about the effects of COVID-19 on Rutgers students’ lives, thoughts, and future plans.
Family Literacy Program Helps Latino Children and Parents Get Ready for Kindergarten
The curriculum uses health and wellness themes to teach language and literacy acquisition skills to pre-kindergarteners in New Brunswick who are dual-language learners from low-income Latino backgrounds.
Rutgers Inspires Establishment of New Jersey One Health Task Force
Core faculty members Gloria Bachmann and Dina Fonseca discuss the need for scientists to address how humans, animals, and the environment affect one another and to develop protocols to stop disease transmission from animals to humans.
On the Pandemic Podcast Features Institute Faculty
In episode 9 of On the Pandemic, Richard Marlink and Nir Eyal share insights on various countries’ approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as pandemic-related inequities both among and within countries.
In Venezuela, politics overshadow COVAX shipment and vaccine rollout
Vaccine access amid political turmoil in Venezuela is the backdrop of institute director Richard Marlink’s comments, for a story published by Devex, about COVAX and a global response to the pandemic.
The World According to COVID-19
It’s been a year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty members discuss the health crisis in relation to their own areas of expertise and professional practice.
Rutgers professor discusses COVAX initiative, U.S. involvement
In an interview with The Daily Targum, institute director Richard Marlink explains the international collaboration to distribute COVID-19 vaccines more equitably worldwide.
Medical experts: J&J vaccine is just as effective as vaccines by Pfizer, Moderna
Following the FDA’s emergency approval of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, ROI-NJ published a collection of health experts’ perspectives that includes institute director Richard Marlink’s comments about vaccine efficacy.