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Your monthly source of Rutgers global health news, events, and resources
JULY 2020
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Five Faculty Awarded Seed Grants
Global Health Seed Grants support faculty-led projects that confront health inequities in New Jersey and around the world. These five winning proposals, to be implemented this year, address COVID-19 testing, HIV prevention, opioid misuse, school readiness, and urban health inequity.
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Radio Interview: Education Manager Arpita Jindani
Global health involves many fields as well as local and international efforts. In an interview with the country’s largest South Asian radio station, Arpita Jindani of Rutgers Global Health Institute discusses COVID-19, food insecurity, community partnerships, and mobilizing volunteers.
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Project Map Spotlight: Mosaico, a Phase III Clinical Vaccine Trial to Prevent HIV Infection
While the overall rates of HIV/AIDS have decreased, the risk of infections within certain populations has surged. In this featured project from our interactive map of Rutgers' global health education, research, and service efforts, New Jersey Medical School faculty member Shobha Swaminathan is a clinical site leader for a vaccine trial that aims to provide HIV immunity for life.
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Recommended Reads
Black business owners had a harder time getting federal coronavirus aid than their white peers, finds a study coauthored by Jerome Williams, a distinguished professor at Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick. The New York Times reports that the study involved “mystery shoppers” inquiring at 17 banks about loans under the Paycheck Protection Program.
Telemedicine may “herald in an extremely positive change even after the COVID-19 pandemic has resolved,” writes Gloria A. Bachmann in an invited editorial about menopausal health care for the journal Case Reports in Women's Health. Bachmann, a Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty member, makes the case that while rapid, widespread adoption of telemedicine was born of necessity, there are significant benefits for patients, providers, health systems, and insurers.
Seventy percent of the country’s most environmentally contaminated sites are located within one mile of federally assisted housing, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, citing a recent nonprofit report. School of Social Work faculty members Christine Morales and Mariann Bischoff discuss some of the issues at play and their discipline's connection to environmental justice.
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Global Health Events
August 5, online
Adverse Childhood Experiences: Social Determinants of Health
The Adverse Childhood Experiences series, presented by Rutgers Project ECHO, comprises 14 biweekly, CE credited, online sessions to help improve the identification, care, referral, and care management of children with adverse experiences. Shilpa Pai, associate professor of pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, leads the upcoming session on social determinants of health.
September 10–12, online
Global Neurosurgery: Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey Medical School, and RWJBarnabas Health present a three-day virtual symposium to educate, innovate, and foster a deeper understanding in the field of global neurosurgery. The symposium will feature the inaugural Peter W. Carmel Oration by Sir Michael Marmot, a global authority on health inequalities, and will coincide with the administrative council meeting of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. Early-bird registration ends August 31.
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