EJB Talks

Join our faculty and staff experts, as well as some of our alumni and students, as we talk about topics within the disciplines of public policy, urban planning, public health, health administration, and informatics. 

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Using Data and Emerging Technologies to Improve Urban Life

Using Data and Emerging Technologies to Improve Urban Life

The Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Lab (RUCI Lab) was recently founded at the Bloustein School, with the mission of using new sources of data and emerging technologies to study the health of cities, and by doing so, improve the quality of urban life. This week,...

EJB Talks: Challenges to Transportation in the Wake of a Pandemic

EJB Talks: Challenges to Transportation in the Wake of a Pandemic

The New Jersey/New York region is one of the most densely populated in the United States with some of the most widely traveled public transit systems. Thousands of New Jerseyans take NJ Transit bus and rail to New York City; thousands more crowd the New York bus and...

EJBTalks: Will The Cities of the Future Change?

EJBTalks: Will The Cities of the Future Change?

There has been both in- and out-migration from cities now for years depending upon economic conditions, but the pandemic has hit our cities and high-density areas the hardest. After years of re-urbanization, are we going to see a new wave of urban flight? Has the...

EJB Talks: Laying Bare Nationwide Health Disparities

EJB Talks: Laying Bare Nationwide Health Disparities

Returning to the healthcare field amidst the COVID-19 crisis, host Stuart Shapiro welcomes Professor Soumitra Bhuyan, who teaches in the Bloustein School's health administration program and Dr. Sabiha Hussain from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Their...

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N.J. gubernatorial hopefuls rely on a small slice of the state for cash

The vast majority of campaign contributions in the New Jersey governor’s race are coming from a small slice of the Garden State as U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli zigzag the state less than a week ahead of the election... Sherrill has had a particularly...

Rimshah Jawad (MPI ’26) Featured for National Student Parent Month

Rimshah is completing a Master of Public Informatics at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Public Policy. Rimshah's work focuses on the intersection of AI, data, and public good. She recently presented her paper “MOMCare with AI: A Dual Embedding-based RAG-LLM Chatbot...

How NJ’s top watchdog lost its bite amid conflicts and chaos

TRENTON – Exactly one year before she was forced to resign, Tiffany Williams Brewer saw the 55-year-old New Jersey State Commission of Investigation as a house that was due for a makeover. In a plan she labeled “SCI 2.0,” she said the house needed a new exterior, with...

Jared Aisenberg (MCRP ’23) Receives MTA Accessibility Award

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently held an award ceremony honoring accessibility innovators that are at he forefront of developing cutting-edge technology and creative solutions that enhance customer accessibility. from pioneering mobile applications...

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