Disparities in health outcomes continue to be a significant problem in the United States. Many African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and the poor die at younger ages and in greater numbers from the most common causes of death than their middle-class and while counterparts.
In order to help eliminate these dipartites in death and illness, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the Building a Culture of Health program, which along with its subsidiary, New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI), provides funding to communities to develop projects aimed at improving health outcomes.
Funded by a $200,000 grant from NJHI, Dr. Denise Rodgers, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences' vice chancellor for interprofessional programs and director of the Rutgers Urban Health and Wellness Institute, along with community-based organizations, has formed the Believe in a Healthy Newark Initiative. Since 2015, the initiative's three distinct core impact teams: healthy homes, food and fitness, and ACEs, have been bringing awareness and promising interventions to Newark starting in its West and South wards.
- excerpt from Rutgers Today article by Patti Verbanas. Click here to read the full article including an interview with Dr. Rodgers.
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