Adriana Abizadeh is currently the executive director of the Kensington Corridor Trust (KCT) in Philadelphia. The mission, duty and purpose of the KCT is to utilize collective ownership to direct investments on the corridor that preserve culture and affordability while...
Dr. Abruzzi is an associate teaching professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy’s Public Health program. Dr. Abruzzi received her BA in Anthropology from Rutgers University- Rutgers College, and her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from the...
Dr. Berger is an Instructor at the Bloustein School at Rutgers University. Her professional interests include health policy, public policy and reproductive health. She has taught classes on broad array of topics including Poverty in the U.S., Family, Gender and...
Yen-Tyng Chen, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in September 2022. Dr. Chen is a social determinant of health researcher and social epidemiologist. She is committed to examining how structural-level (e.g., policy, built environment, structural racism) characteristics...
Céu Cirne-Neves, MPA, FACHE, is a healthcare executive with more than 25 years of experience in senior administration positions. She served as the CEO of Saint James Hospital, Cathedral Healthcare System, Newark, from 1996-2005, and most recently, in a variety of...
Henry A. Coleman is a Senior Policy Fellow, having retired from teaching in the Bloustein School's Public Policy Program in June 2019. He also served as director of the Rutgers Center for Government Services for twelve years. His interests and publications are...
Jocelyn Elise Crowley is a Professor of Public Policy, a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Political Science, an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for...
I have lived in New Jersey, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. I have experience in criminal justice, municipal finance, housing and community planning. After working for several years in the municipal bond business in New York, I settled in Sussex County where I grew up...
James DeFilippis' research focuses on the politics and economics of cities and communities. He is particularly interested in the processes of social change, and questions of power and justice in cities. His work strives to makes connections; linking disciplines and...
Aakanksha Deoli, MHA, is an Instructor of Teaching at the Bloustein School for several undergraduate Health Administration courses, including Intro to Health Administration, Intro to Lean in Health Care, Leadership Seminar, and the Professional Practice Internship...
Bob is a former New Jersey state senator, utility commissioner, transportation policy maker and corporate management consultant whose diverse skills make him particularly adept at addressing issues at the intersection of business and government. Across a multi-decade...
Andrea Hetling is a Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Dr. Hetling’s research interests focus on how public programs and policies can support economic well-being and financial stability among vulnerable...
Radha Jagannathan is a Professor of Statistics in the Urban Planning & Policy Development Program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Professor Jagannathan received a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...
Zoe Lindenfeld, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School in September 2024. She is a health policy and services researcher focused on mitigating factors that perpetuate health inequities for individuals with substance use disorders. She has used mixed-methods research...
Alexandra Lopez has been in the field of addictions counseling for over 20 years. She has an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and a Masters Degree in Counseling Education from Kean University. She is a Licensed Clinical Alcohol Drug Counselor as well as a...
Brandon McKoy is the Vice President of State Partnerships on the State Fiscal Policy team. He helps support member organizations of the State Priorities Partnership (SPP) network by connecting them with vital resources as they research and promote policies that...
Dr. Patricia O’Brien-Richardson is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. For the past ten years, she has been the CEO and Founder of Move it Nation, Inc., a public health non-profit organization whose...
Emily Parker, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School as an Assistant Professor in 2023. She was formerly a NIA Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan in the Population Studies Center and received her Ph.D. in Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University....
Mark Paul, Ph.D. joined the Bloustein School as an assistant professor in September 2022. He is also a member of the Rutgers Climate Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include understanding the...
Katie Pincura joined the Bloustein School in 2024 as an Associate Professor of Teaching and will also serve as the Undergraduate Program Public Health Lead. She was previously an Assistant Teaching Professor and Program Director of the undergraduate and graduate...
Kelcie Ralph joined the Bloustein School from UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, where she studied the travel behavior of special populations. She earned her Ph.D. from UCLA, where her dissertation project evaluated the causes and consequences of the decline in...
Julia Sass Rubin has been part of the faculty of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy since 2003. Dr. Rubin’s research interests include nonprofit and public organizations and processes, developmental finance, and the intersection of education...
Melinda Rushing, Ph.D., LMSW joined the Bloustein School as an Assistant Professor in September 2024.She is an applied data scientist who utilizes various quantitative methods to identify inequitable practices in the delivery of and access to health services among...
Hal Salzman is Professor of Planning and Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School and Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. His research focuses on science and engineering labor markets, workplace restructuring, skill...
Jermaine Toney, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Bloustein School. He was selected to receive a 2023-2024 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Fellowship on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Economic Outcomes. Professor Toney was a member of the 2022-2023...
Carl Van Horn is a widely recognized expert on workforce, human resources, and employment policy issues with extensive experience in public and private sector policymaking. Van Horn is the founding director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, one of the...
Nancy Wolff, Ph.D., an economist and professor, joined the Bloustein faculty in 1992. Her research has increasingly focused on public policies and justice practices that influence the incarceration and rehabilitation of justice-involved people. In 1999, she was...