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Thanks to a generous, anonymous gift, the Rutgers H.O.P.E. Clinic is beginning an in-house diabetes and nutrition education program to address a gap in patient care needs. When the clinic opened its doors in Plainfield, it had a dual purpose: meeting the health care needs of a community of largely uninsured adults while giving Rutgers [...]
Fall Risk Screening Program Reaches 1,000-Person Milestone Rutgers Health has reached a milestone in its effort to prevent osteoporosis and reduce fall risk across New Jersey communities.Since the Rutgers Interprofessional Osteoporosis and Fall Risk Screening Program began in 2019, it has screened more than 1,000 adults from around the state. The collaborative initiative [...]
Mutual Mentoring Grant for the SHP Free Clinic Network The Fall 2025 Clinic Advisory Group Meeting, held on December 4, 2025 and guided by Frank Giannelli and Dr. Andrew Lynch, marked the third and final session sponsored by the Mutual Mentoring Grant. Across one year, the grant supported three interdisciplinary meetings that brought together [...]
Rutgers Expands Leadership in Interprofessional Education Through Innovative Greece Exchange Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP) is pushing interprofessional education (IPE) to the forefront of health professions training with a new international program in Greece that brought Rutgers and Greek students together to study how communication, teamwork, and health systems differ across borders—and [...]
Researcher Awarded NIH Grant to Help Improve Pregnancy Health Shristi Rawal, associate professor in the Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, has received a two-year, $406,531 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the first phase of a five-year project grant totaling $1.26 million. The project will develop and test a [...]
SHP Faculty Member Honored as Champion in Global Health For his commitment to advancing health equity from Newark to Ghana, Joachim Sackey, a faculty member at Rutgers School of Health Professions, has been named a 2025 Champion in Global Health by the Rutgers Global Health Institute. The annual award recognizes Rutgers-affiliated faculty, staff, [...]