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Quarterly News from Rutgers Institute for
Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
JANUARY
-
MARCH
2023

IFH Holds Town Hall IN THIS ISSUE

In March, faculty and staff gathered for a town hall NEW FACULTY & STAFF
meeting hosted by interim director, Tobias Gerhard.
The presentation welcomed new members and NEW GRANTS
highlighted new grants and accomplishments across
the Institute. Dr. Gerhard also shared updates on
space organization, technology transition, and
NEW CENTER AT IFH
budget changes. CFO, Stacey Pacheco, joined the
meeting to share reminders on expense reporting NJ HEALTH STUDY
and reimbursement policies. MEETING

CHINESE NEW YEAR

CELEBRATION

UPCOMING EVENTS

RESOURCE CORNER
& MORE

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NEWS Chinese New Year

The Rutgers Asian Resource Center for
Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) and
New Center at IFH the NJ Minority Aging Collaborative, in
collaboration with Robert Wood
A new Alzheimer's clinical research center is being
Johnson Medical School and RWJ
launched within the Brain Health Institute which is
University Hospital's Chinese Medical
housed at the Institute for Health. The Herbert and
Program, hosted a Chinese New Year
Jacqueline Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Celebration at IFH.
Clinical Research and Treatment Center will
facilitate clinical research in Alzheimer’s disease
The program featured a traditional lion
that could result in new medical treatments.
dance, kung fu demonstration, dances
from the Mayong Performance Art
Michal Beeri, a global leader in Alzheimer’s disease Group and Chinese knots and
clinical research who will be based at IFH, has been calligraphy bookmark crafts.
named the center’s director.

Read the full article on Rutgers Today.

Health Study Hosts Meeting

In February, the New Jersey Population Health
Cohort Study team hosted a meeting for potential
investigators. Over 60 faculty and staff attended the
meeting in-person and virtually to learn about
research proposal development and share funding
ideas for the study.

Learn more about the NJ Health Study.

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NEW FACES

Ubydul Haque, RGHI Cindy Mihalenko, IFH Wilfred Ngwa, RGHI Jaclyn Schess, IFH Sanika Rege, PETS

NEW GRANT EVENTS

Chintan Dave Thursday, April 6: Brown Bag Seminar with Dr.
Evaluating the role of multimorbidity in modulation Daniel Terglia on “Using Research and Policy to
medication effects in older adults
Address Inequities in Health, Housing, and
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Homelessness.”

Thursday, April 13: Brown Bag Seminar with John

NEWS Ctd. DiVuolo and OIT on Security Training

Tuesday, April 25: NJ ACTS Special Populations Core

2023 Seminar Series with Dr. Kristen Krause on "The
CPBH to Lead Workshop Role of Resilience in Addressing Biopsychosocial and
Neurocognitive Health Outcomes in Older Adults
Dr. Tammy Chung, Director of IFH’s Center for
Living with HIV/AIDS"
Population Behavioral Health (CPBH) and professor of
psychiatry, and Dr. Carolyn Sartor, faculty member and
Thursday, April 27: Brown Bag Seminar with Dr.
associate professor of psychiatry at CPBH, were selected
Darina Petrovsky
to co-organize and co-chair a workshop at the 46th
annual Research Society on Alcohol Scientific Meeting.
Saturday, April 29: Rutgers Day - IFH at Health
Village on Busch Campus
The workshop, “Parental Supply of Alcohol to Underage
Youth: Practices, Predictors, Mechanisms, and Outcomes
Thursday, May 11: Brown Bag Seminar with Dr.
Across Countries and Racial/Ethnic Groups” will be held
Benjamin Bates
during the meeting in Bellevue, Washington in June 2023.

Keep up with all the Institute's events here.

Halm Recognized at RBHS

Congratulations to Vice Chancellor for Population Health, Dr. Ethan Halm, on being named the Henry
Rutgers Chair in Population Health Innovation at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences!

"This is important recognition of the need for academic health systems to lead on advancing population
health in the domains of research, education, clinical care, and societal impact," says Dr. Halm.
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Hausman Writes Book Leventhal Scholars

Faculty member and research professor at IFH's Center for
Population-Level Bioethics, Daniel Hausman's new book,
How Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and Fair has been
published by Oxford University Press. The book focuses on
whether cost-effective allocation of
Selected
Congratulations to Rutgers doctoral students,
Molly Nowels, MS, MA, and James Terhune,
PsyM, MSc, who were selected by the IFH
healthcare violates selection committee for the 2023 Howard

ethical constraints. Leventhal Scholarship for Trainees. The

scholarship provides two students with the
funds to pursue dissertation research and
"Although cost-effectiveness does not provide complete
jump start their investigative careers.
guidance concerning how to allocate

health-related resources, I argue in How

Health Care Can Be Cost-Effective and
Fair that cost-effectiveness is an
ethically acceptable criterion that
should be an important ingredient in
allocating health resources," says Dr.
Hausman.

Nowels' research focuses on health outcomes

related to palliative care.

PETS Faculty Awarded

Farzin Khosrow-Khavar, faculty
member at IFH's Center for
Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment
Science (PETS), received the Cancer
Prevention and Control Pilot Award
from Rutgers Cancer Institute of NJ Terhune's research focuses on loneliness and
(CINJ) for his project, "Validation of social determinants of mental health.
Real-World Evidence Studies in Breast
Cancer by Calibration Against
Randomized Controlled Trials.” Resource Corner
Do you use Adobe products? Rutgers OIT
Benjamin Bates, faculty member at
wants to hear from you. OIT has been
PETS, received the Cancer Survivorship
working with Adobe to get the maximum value
and Outcomes Center Pilot Award from
from our licensing agreement with them.
CINJ for his project, "Novel Cancer
Therapies and The Changing Landscape
Adobe's Creative Campus program emphasizes
of Cancer Survivorship: What is the
digital literacy, access, and equity for
Role for Primary Care During Cancer
students. If you use Adobe products in your
Treatment."
curricula and you may be interested in the
Creative Campus, please reach out to Frank
Reda at frank.reda@rutgers.edu to express
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