EJB Talks
Join our faculty and staff experts, as well as some of our alumni and students, as we talk about topics within the disciplines of public policy, urban planning, public health, health administration, and informatics.
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EJBTalks: Will The Cities of the Future Change?
There has been both in- and out-migration from cities now for years depending upon economic conditions, but the pandemic has hit our cities and high-density areas the hardest. After years of re-urbanization, are we going to see a new wave of urban flight? Has the...
EJB Talks: Laying Bare Nationwide Health Disparities
Returning to the healthcare field amidst the COVID-19 crisis, host Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Soumitra Bhuyan, who teaches in the Bloustein School's health administration program and Dr. Sabiha Hussain from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Their...
EJB Talks: Mitigating the COVID-19 Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment
The unemployment numbers in this first month of the COVID-19 pandemic have been staggering. What can we do to help those who are finding themselves newly unemployed, desperately waiting for their benefits to start and not sure where to turn?
EJB Talks: Health Administrators On the Front Lines Fighting COVID-19
In this episode, host Stuart Shapiro talks with Associate Professor of Practice Ann Marie-Hill, from the school’s health administration program, about the role health administrators play in the COVID-19 response.
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RWV Publishes Report on Affordable Housing on Faith Land
Bloustein School researchers publish report on affordable housing in U.S. faith land The Daily Targum, March 30, 2026, 8:06 p.m. By Rida Kadri Dr. Nadia Mian, senior program director of the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement and lecturer in the Edward J....
EJB Talks: Small Wins, Big Impact: On the Front Lines of Local Public Health
Small Wins, Big Impact: On the Front Lines of Local Public Health with Peter Tabbot In this episode of EJB Talks, Peter Tabbot ’91 MPH ‘97, CPM, longtime local health officer in Rockaway, NJ and a Bloustein School public health lecturer, shares his path into public...
Channeling Research Into Policy Reform
Caroline Chovanes Master of Public Policy, Class of 2026 Hometown: Philadelphia, PAAreas of Interest: Policy creation and reform, social justice, and criminal justice reformActivities at Rutgers: Research Coordinator, Rutgers Sleep Lab, Department of Kinesiology &...
At Rutgers, Students Are Learning About Democracy in a Lab
Nicholas V. Longo is leading a university-wide effort on how to expand engagement in civic life Nicholas V. Longo, the inaugural director of the Rutgers Democracy Lab, insists democracy is something you learn by doing – not just in a classroom or at the ballot box,...
Sina-Marie Mayer: Intersection of data science, AI, and public policy.
Sina-Marie Mayer Master of Public Informatics, Class of 2026 M.Sc. Social and Economic Data Science & Master of Public Informatics From Social Science to Data Science Sina’s journey into Public Informatics began with a strong interest in data-driven decision...