Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Behavioral improvements to diet, exercise and sleep can improve clinical outcomes for many conditions. New research led by Ann Nguyen of IFH's Rutgers Center for State Health Policy highlights 6 ways behavioral health services can be integrated into primary care visits. https://lnkd.in/eaJzypRm

Congratulations & thanks to our Rutgers Health Service Corps colorectal cancer screening team who distributed over 1600 home stool test kits to low income patients in New Brunswick, NJ in partnership with the Eric B. Chandler Health Center. March is colorectal cancer awareness month. Please have a conversation with your 45-75 year old family, friends (& self) about getting tested! https://lnkd.in/ev6YnjHf #colorectalcancer #populationhealth

Bioinformatics and AI/ML approaches using multi-omics data to accelerate diagnosis and delivery of precision care for patients with rare diseases. Our latest chapter/article published in book: Methods in Cell Biology. https://lnkd.in/ePXZefkK Authors: Kritika Singh, Sarah Usman, Saman Zeeshan, Naveena Yanamala, MS, PhD, FASE, Mark Nichols, Ph.D., Vikram Bhise, Sabahat Bokhari, Partho Sengupta, and Zeeshan Ahmed

The Boggs Center's New Jersey Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NJLEND) program is recruiting graduate fellows for 2025-2026. Our public health discipline is seeking a New Jersey graduate student (MPH/MS/PhD/DrPH) with at least one year of graduate coursework completed. The program offers leadership training, a stipend, and the potential for academic credits. The selected fellow will join an interdisciplinary community of students, self-advocates, family members, and other experts that is dedicated to addressing the needs of children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (and related developmental disabilities) and other maternal and child health populations. Please share with students who may be interested in the public health program or another graduate discipline, and reach out to Carrie Coffield or Jillian Guzik to learn more. Students can apply here: https://lnkd.in/eSuhwazp

For the first time in 10 years, drug overdose deaths in NJ dropped across all racial and ethnic groups. Dr. Stephen Crystal of IFH and Rutgers School of Social Work comments on factors contributing to the decline in NJ.com The Star-Ledger. https://lnkd.in/eApHSQwZ

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Join the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) for the next installment of their Special Populations Core 2025 Seminar Series! Dr. Julie Gaither will provide attendees with an overview of how the #pediatric community has been impacted by the #opioidcrisis. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eMAA2AHK

Dr. Yanping Jiang, assistant professor in IFH's Center for Population Behavioral Health and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, recently attended the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine's annual meeting in Seattle to present research on child maltreatment and whole person health using a biopsychosocial approach. She also chaired a symposium on immigration, stress and cardiometabolic health of U.S. Asian and Hispanic populations. #SBSM2025Seattle

Vincent Lo Re, an internationally recognized pharmacoepidemiology researcher, has been named director of the Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science, a unit of the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. Lo Re’s research focuses on chronic viral hepatitis infection, HIV/viral hepatitis coinfection and drug-induced liver injury. He pioneered the use of electronic health care data for the study of acute and chronic liver diseases and was the first to develop computable phenotypes for many liver-related diseases.

#ICYMI: CSHP/Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Assistant Professor Erica Eliason recently appeared on an episode of “A Health Podyssey,” a Health Affairs podcast. She spoke about her recent paper that explores how #continuouseligibility policies and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) structure impacted children's coverage loss during the #Medicaid unwinding: https://lnkd.in/e3ytB4ew