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Your monthly source of Rutgers global health news, events, and resources
MARCH 2021
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New Program to Help Small Businesses Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Rutgers Global Health Institute has launched a program that offers crucial support to small businesses facing economic and operational challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program, Equitable Recovery for New Jersey’s Small Businesses, provides guidance on safe operations and related support services for small businesses and nonprofits in New Jersey’s low-income and minority communities.
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Help for small businesses is help for employees, owners, customers, and communities. Learn more about our work in New Jersey.
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The World According to COVID-19
It’s been a year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty members reflect on the health crisis in relation to their own areas of expertise and professional practice.
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Access all our COVID-19 coverage from the past year.
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A Day to Create Positive Change
On Rutgers Giving Day, March 24, Rutgers Global Health Institute will seek support for its new Health Equity in New Jersey Fund. The institute will use this fund to confront health disparities in New Jersey, which have worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Recommended Reads
A new rapid test that can detect all three emerging coronavirus variants in a little over one hour has been designed by Rutgers researchers, reports Rutgers Today. Rutgers Global Health Institute core faculty member David Alland was among the co-researchers who helped develop the test in what he called “a crash program to respond to a serious public health need.” Details on easily creating and running the rapid test are accessible online, at no charge, to support public research.
The disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on Black and Latinx people should have been a surprise to no one, writes Elise Boddie in a guest column as part of the Star-Ledger’s “The year of COVID” series. Boddie, a professor of law and the founding Newark director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers, argues that after decades of health-related disparities, “all of this was foreseeable if those in power had wanted to pay attention.”
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Global Health Events
March 12
What’s Next for Public Health? Lessons Learned from the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The School of Public Health presents a webinar focused on ensuring that the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic are applied as the field of public health moves forward.
March 16
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Distinction Symposium
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is hosting a virtual symposium to honor this year's graduates of the school’s distinction programs, which include global health.
March 24
Rutgers Giving Day
On Rutgers Giving Day, March 24, Rutgers Global Health Institute will be asking for your support to confront health disparities in New Jersey, which have worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 25
Multiracial Stigma and Health Outcomes
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research presents a virtual Brown Bag Seminar featuring Diana Sanchez, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. Sanchez’s research focuses on social stigma and intergroup relations with a particular focus on the experiences and perceptions of racial minorities and women.
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