In this episode of EJB Talks, Peter Tabbot ’91 MPH ‘97, longtime local health officer in Rockaway, NJ and a Bloustein School public health lecturer, shares his path into public health and what it means to lead at the community level. He explains the wide-ranging role of health officers, from managing essential services to working with governments and residents.
Topic
COVID-19
Grafova and Williams Examine Medical Debt in New Study
In this analytic sample, 4.4 % of households experienced the onset of low or medium medical debt, and 1.2 % experienced the onset of high medical debt between the 2019 and 2020 waves of the PSID.
Loh and Noland Explore Public Charging Station Disparities
ontrary to the general notion of unequal access to public charging stations across different income groups, we found that the disparity was minimal. Assuming a full fleet of EVs and the current level of charging infrastructure, the success rate for all income groups is low but similar using 2035 trip-level data.
NJSPL Report: Analyzing the Use and Equity of ARPA Funds
The study’s findings have two key implications for future federal aid programs. First, many local governments allocated ARPA funds in alignment with the policy’s primary goals—responding to the economic and health crises. This suggests that maintaining flexibility in future federal aid programs would enable local governments to tailor spending to their unique needs. Second, ARPA funds were allocated to more distressed local governments, demonstrating a potential model for future federal aid programs to ensure resources reach areas with the greatest need.
Dr. Grafova Presented Posters from the VSR Research
“It was an honor to represent our amazing research team — Pamela de Cordova, Jennifer Polakowski, and Jessica Anderson. Huge thanks to the New Jersey State Policy Lab for funding this research and making this work possible.”
NJSPL Report: Emotional Well-Being of NJ Nurses
COVID-19 brought to light the disparities among the nursing workforce that have been simmering in our health care system and highlighted the need for nurses to access emotional well-being programs with the intention of reducing emotional distress and burnout. In recognition of National Nurses Week, researchers have published a new report examining the findings from a study administered to NJ nurses who participated in the emotional support Virtual Schwartz Rounds (VSR) online sessions.
New Research on Car-Ownership During and After COVID-19
Using a multilevel Hurdle model with month and state random effects, vehicle ownership trends are separately modeled for car-owning and carless households within the same modeling framework, while accounting for endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity.
Research on Impacts of Working From Home During COVID-19
Results suggest those with higher educational attainment, higher incomes, and prior experience working at home are likelier to do so in the future.
Rutgers Report Seeks to Reconnect Newark Students with Educational Opportunities
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, total postsecondary enrollment in colleges and universities in New Jersey fell 6.7% from the spring of 2022, higher than the national drop of 4.1%.
Marc Pfeiffer Weighs in on Essex County COVID-19 Funding Issues
“Not enough resources were spent to manage those contracts to ensure that controls were in place and there was monitoring done to prevent that type of a circumstance from happening,” Pfeiffer said.