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Public Health Undergraduate: Jessica Plaha
I hope to further my public health background, focusing on urban global health, so I can incorporate community health research and work into my medical career.
Assessing select financial impact questions for New Jersey women- and minority-owned businesses
Brief summarizes the response differences across groups of business owners on closures and financial impact due to the COVID-19 public health crisis.
Leading a healthcare organization through accountability in crisis
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption across the globe instituting major lockdowns and worldwide fear, prompting one of the worst unemployment and economic impacts in decades. With over 10 million positive global cases, causing several...
2020 Signature Courses
Committed to the themes of health in all policies, healthy communities, the culture of health, and active design, these courses enable students to showcase the interconnected nature of our disciplines.
New Jersey Policy Perspective adds three new board members
New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) has announced the election of three new members to its Board of Trustees. Joining the NJPP board are Rutgers University Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations Professor Janice Fine, Kensington Corridor Trust Executive...
Michael Lahr promoted to Distinguished Research Professor
Dr. Lahr serves as the Director of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON™), which provides economic analysis of public policy issues for New Jersey and the region, and is also editor of the Economic Systems Research journal.
Small NJ city at center of corruption probe as ex-lawmaker charged
"Elected officials should really watch who are they are appointing to positions, where they can appoint political patronage jobs. They really need to know who they are appointing because when it goes bad it brings down a lot of people," said Marc Pfeiffer,...
Marc Weiner to serve as Big Ten Academic Alliance leadership program fellow
The BTAA DEO program is designed to provide leadership training for faculty who are currently serving as department chairs to further develop their ability to be effective academic leaders.
Spring 2020 Planning and Design
Drawing upon real-world urban development issues to provoke discussion of today’s community development challenges, students gained an understanding of how sustainable communities have long term benefits to the economy, public health and the natural environment by designing redevelopment sites to achieve community health.
Marshall Street Substation
Final PresentationAlternatives Analysis The City of Hoboken, New Jersey, faces limited undeveloped land opportunities in the densely populated urban municipality. Just two percent of the square mile city constitutes vacant land, which makes the practices of...
‘Convoluted’ ballots give some candidates a leg up, lawsuit says
Pugach refers to this placement as "ballot Siberia." The concept is the subject of a new research paper by a Rutgers University professor that suggests primary ballots in New Jersey allow party insiders to pick winners. NJ1015.com, July 6, 2020
COV-19, the recession, and state budgets: What are our choices?
This week Stuart Shapiro sits down with Bloustein School Senior Policy Fellow and former New Jersey Budget Director Richard Keevey, who reflects on his years of budgeting at both the state and national levels.