Department of Clinical & Preventive Nutrition Sciences
Listening First: How Rutgers SHP is Redesigning Care With Communities When systems are designed far from the people who use them, even good intentions can land badly.An autistic adult’s pain is dismissed as just behavior.A bilingual child is routed into special education because a test wasn’t built for them.An older woman leaves the free [...]
HOPE Clinic Launches In-House Diabetes Education Program Thanks to a generous, anonymous gift, the Rutgers HOPE 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 [...]
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. Shristi Rawal The project will develop [...]
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. Joachim Sackey The annual award [...]
Researchers Win NIH Grant to Develop Wellness App for Children with Down Syndrome SHP researchers from two departments have teamed up to secure a two-year, $431,750 federal grant to develop an innovative mobile app that helps children and teens with Down syndrome build healthier routines at home.The award from the National Institutes of Health [...]
Q & A With Corey Hawes, DCN ’22 Clinician, Adjunct Professor, Researcher – and Ironman What drew you to the Doctor of Clinical Nutrition program at SHP? I knew that I wanted to be stronger clinically. I felt the DCN program at SHP would enhance my skillset and knowledge in a variety [...]