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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How Toilet Paper Brought Supply Chain Management to the Pandemic Front Lines
“Supply chain” became the buzz phrase at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Strauss-Wieder she breaks down the “breakdown” of the supply chain at the start of the pandemic with Stuart Shapiro.
Restarting the Economy: Understanding How the Cost of Not Investing Can Hurt NJ’s Pandemic Recovery
With the guarded hope that we are on a downward trend of coronavirus activity, the discussion has turned to the reopening of the state. EJB Talks host Stuart Shapiro broaches the topic with Bloustein alumnus Brandon McKoy, MCRP ’13, president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, and a member of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s commission to reopen the state.
Why are Black and Latino Populations Being Hit Harder by COVID-19?
Dr, Dawne Mouzon sheds light on why some populations, are more susceptible to not just infection from COVID-19, but why their outcomes are not as good as those in predominantly white or more affluent communities.
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
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?
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
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...
EJB Talks: Mitigating the COVID-19 Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment
The unemployment numbers in this first month of the COVID-19 pandemic have been staggering. What can we do to help those who are finding themselves newly unemployed, desperately waiting for their benefits to start and not sure where to turn?
EJB Talks: Health Administrators On the Front Lines Fighting COVID-19
In this episode, host Stuart Shapiro talks with Associate Professor of Practice Ann Marie-Hill, from the school’s health administration program, about the role health administrators play in the COVID-19 response.
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Addressing Cell Phone Use in Schools: A National Landscape of Policies and Practices
Addressing Cell Phone Use in Schools: A National Landscape of Policies and Practices Dash Barany, Claudia Cruz, Matthew Duca, Matthew Filosa, Naeemah Jones, Margaret Riley, and Genesis Vasquez-Peralta Faculty Advisor: Dr. Carl Van Horn Read Report The purpose of this...
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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Rutgers-New Brunswick On-Campus Job Fair 2026
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