The Bloustein School is pleased to announce that at their recent meeting, the Rutgers Board of Governors promoted Irina Grafova to Associate Professor with tenure.
Dr. Grafova joined the Bloustein School in 2023 after several years as an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, where she retains a secondary appointment. Trained as a health economist, her research aims to bring new evidence to socio-economic inequalities in health and health disparities. She has conducted research on family financial strain, family healthcare spending inequities, the financial burden of the disease, and health inequities stemming from the neighborhood and work environment. She has worked on several collaborative interdisciplinary research projects. Collaborating with the World City Project she examined intra-urban health inequities in middle-income countries. Additionally, she collaborated with faculty in the Rutgers University School of Nursing, where she examined the physical and emotional exhaustion rates and burnout rates among acute care nurses in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her promotion speaks to both the excellence of her work and the Bloustein School’s ability to recruit world-class scholars.