Rutgers Global Health Institute Collaborators Network

Our institute serves as a convener and catalyst for global health activity throughout the university, including efforts that emanate from the global health offices and global health-related centers that comprise the Rutgers Global Health Institute Collaborators Network. Throughout this collaborators network – whose members are listed below – global health initiatives encompass all elements of the university’s mission areas of education, research, and service.

Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology

Global Health Committee

Committee Chair:
Angelica Diaz-Martinez
Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Clinical Department
angelica.diazmartinez@rutgers.edu

 

Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice

Executive Director:
Michelle Stephens
Professor, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, School of Arts and Sciences
mas732@rutgers.edu

 

New Jersey Medical School

Office of Global Health

Director:
Ziad Sifri
Professor, Department of Surgery
Director, Center for Global Surgery
sifrizi@njms.rutgers.edu

Associate Director:
Harsh Sule
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine
Director, Emergency Medicine Residency Program
harsh.sule@rutgers.edu

 

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Office of Global Health

Associate Dean for Global Health:
Karen WeiRu Lin
Professor and Director of the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Faculty Advisor, HIPHOP Promise Clinic
karen.weiru.lin@rutgers.edu

Program Manager:
Angela Gitau
angela.gitau@rutgers.edu

 

School of Communication and Information

Health and Wellness Cluster

Chair:
Itzhak Yanovitzky
Professor, Department of Communication
itzhak@comminfo.rutgers.edu

Affiliate:
Charles Senteio
Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science
charles.senteio@rutgers.edu

 

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Office of Global Engagement

Director:
Megan Francis
megan.francis@rutgers.edu

Affiliate:
Mark Robson
Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology
robson@sebs.rutgers.edu

Program Coordinator:
Oi Yin Lo
oiyin.lo@rutgers.edu

 

School of Health Professions

Global Affairs

Associate Dean for Global Affairs:
Riva Touger-Decker
Professor, Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions
Professor, Department of Diagnostic Sciences, Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
decker@rutgers.edu

 

School of Nursing

Center for Global Health

Assistant Dean:
Emilia Iwu
Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Nursing Science
iwu@sn.rutgers.edu

Senior Department Administrator:
Shammah Coleman
snc76@sn.rutgers.edu

 

School of Public Health

Office for Global Programs

Associate Dean for Educational Program Development and Global Programs:
Marian Passannante
Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
marian.passannante@rutgers.edu

Program Coordinator:
Christine Oller
chrissy.oller@sph.rutgers.edu

 

Department of Urban-Global Public Health

Chair:
Leslie M. Kantor
Professor, Department of Urban-Global Public Health
leslie.kantor@rutgers.edu

Global Public Health Concentration Director:
Vince Silenzio
Professor, Department of Urban-Global Public Health
vs155@sph.rutgers.edu

 

School of Social Work

Office of Global Social Work Programs

Director:
Rebecca Davis
Associate Professor of Professional Practice
redavis@ssw.rutgers.edu

 

University

Rutgers Global

Vice President for Global Affairs:
Eric Garfunkel
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Physics
vp@global.rutgers.edu

Assistant Vice President for Global Affairs:
Ji-Yeung Jang
jyjang@global.rutgers.edu

Assistant Dean for Global Programs:
Johanna Bernstein
jrbernst@global.rutgers.edu

Director of Marketing and Communications:
Kathryn Rosko
krosko@global.rutgers.edu