A study by Joel Cantor and Michael Yedidia published in The Milbank Quarterly found that partnerships between housing and health care organizations significantly improve services for people experiencing homelessness by making better use of limited resources. Through interviews with administrators and frontline providers in eight New Jersey programs, researchers identified strategies such as co-locating services, maintaining strong inter-organizational communication, and tailoring care to client needs.
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Center for State Health Policy
Brian Smedley discusses patterns of residential segregation that reinforce health inequities at 2018 Catlin Lecture
by Zoe Linder-Baptie MPP/MCRP ’18 Many of the environmental and societal challenges that public policy and planning students study are being addressed through public health initiatives. In late March Brian D. Smedley, co-founder and Executive Director of the...
Associate Professor Andrea Hetling Named University Chancellor's Scholar
One of the initiatives of the Rutgers-New Brunswick Strategic Plan in 2015 was the creation of a Chancellor's Excellence Fund, which calls for the designation of a select group of faculty members at the associate professor level as “Chancellor’s Scholars.” These...
Hot Topic: Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law and the Individual Mandate
Hot Topic: Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law and the Individual Mandate. The Supreme Court upheld the core of President Obama’s health care overhaul today ruling that the government can require all Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. The...