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SUMMARY:Rutgers Health AI Virtual Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar Series is designed to connect Rutgers faculty\, staff\, and students interested in AI training and research in health and medicine. The seminar series is co-sponsored by the NJMS Center for Data Science and IFH Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI. \n\nChris Ellison\, PhD \nAssociate Professor\, Rutgers Department of Genetics \n“Transposons: selfish genetic elements or essential chromosome components?” \n& \nVikas Nanda\, PhD \nProfessor\, RWJMS Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology \nResident Faculty Member\, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) \n“Finding chemical principles in protein large language models” \n  \n🔗💻 Register in advance to attend via Zoom: https://go.rutgers.edu/4i2pkf5g
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-health-ai-virtual-seminar-series-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:AI Virtual Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260413T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260413T133000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
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SUMMARY:Institute for Health Seminar with Dr. Peter Guarnaccia
DESCRIPTION:Rutgers Institute for Health seminar\n featuring\nDr. Peter Guarnaccia\, Rutgers Professor Emeritus\n“The Importance of Studying Cultural Syndromes in Psychiatric Epidemiology: Evidence from 30 Years of Studying ‘Ataques de Nervious’”\n  \n🗓️ Monday\, April 13 12:30pm \n🏢 💻 Hybrid Seminar: IFH\, 1st Floor Conference Room & Zoom Option. Please join us in person if you can! Light refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nMeeting URL:\nhttps://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94630410185?pwd=MIZJMalyvnvoFPatAOqIkt8GbeRc1c.1&from=addon\n\n\nMeeting ID:\n946 3041 0185\n\n\nPasscode:\n179300\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPeter Guarnaccia\, PhD\, has contributed to research\, conceptual development and applied applications to many of the important areas in culture and mental health research: cultural analyses of psychiatric epidemiology; the integration of cultural syndromes into psychiatric epidemiology and clinical research; family caregiving for a relative with serious mental illness; cultural competence in mental health services research; and processes of culture change among immigrants.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/institute-for-health-seminar-with-dr-peter-guarnaccia/
LOCATION:IFH and Zoom\, IFH and Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260427T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260427T140000
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SUMMARY:Institute for Health Seminar with Dr. Jeremy Greene
DESCRIPTION:Rutgers Institute for Health Seminar\nfeaturing\nJeremy Greene\, MD\, PhD of Johns Hopkins University\n“After the Single Use: Rethinking the Past\, Present\, and Future of Plastics in Healthcare”\nRegister to attend this seminar. \n  \nLocation: In-Person at Rutgers Institute for Health\, Conference Room 120\, 112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ \nVia Zoom (upon registration\, you will receive Zoom details) \n  \nDr. Greene is William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and History of Medicine and Director\, of the Institute of the History of Medicine and the founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His research explores the ways in which medical technologies come to influence our understandings of what it means to be sick or healthy\, normal or abnormal\, on personal\, regional\, and global scales. His newest research project\, Syringe Tide: Disposable Technologies and the Making of Medical Waste focuses on the scientific\, social\, and economic basis of the shift towards disposable technologies in hospitals and clinics. \n“After the Single Use: Rethinking the Past\, Present\, and Future of Plastics in Healthcare” \nThe modern medical enterprise is distinctively wasteful.  This may seem to result inevitably from the hazardous nature of medical substances\, whose infection risk\, chemical toxicity\, or radioactivity accordingly require specialized modes of management.  Yet only 15% of global healthcare wastes fit this specialized profile.  The remaining 85% are simply materials that have been built to be disposable rather than reusable\, a staggering volume of single-use items that emit toxins and carbon dioxide when incinerated\, give off methane and other greenhouse gasses while decomposing in landfills\, or\, if they escape these two fates\, float on the surface of the oceans. \nIt was not always this way.  In a relatively short period of time\, we have naturalized the use of single-use plastics in healthcare—and then forgotten there was ever any alternative.  In this talk\, physician-historian Jeremy Greene traces the links between environmental history\, the history of technology\, and the  role that the global healthcare sector now plays in contributing to climate change and plastic waste—and in innovating new solutions to envision more sustainable forms of healthcare.  By attending closely to the historical and social context in which medicine became wasteful\, Greene’s talk offers ways to unseat medical waste as a natural category and reconsider it as the outcome of a set of value decisions we have made in the past\, and can change in the future.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/institute-for-health-seminar-with-dr-jeremy-greene/
LOCATION:IFH and Zoom\, IFH and Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260430T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260430T130000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
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SUMMARY:It's getting hot in here: Climate & Health Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:“CCHH Metabolism Series Presents Fight Club Round 1: Seed Oils — Friend or Foe?”\nSoko Setoguchi\, MD\, DrPH\, Director\, Rutgers Center for Climate\, Health\, & Healthcare; Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology\, RWJMS & Rutgers School of Public Health \nAayush Visaria\, MD\, MPH\, Core Member\, Rutgers Center for Climate\, Health\, and Healthcare & Instructor\, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School \nWelcome to the inaugural Fight Club\, where we spar with numbers\, not fists. In Round 1 of this series\, we take on one of nutrition’s most polarizing topics: seed oils – in or out? Join us for a lively\, evidence-driven debate as we put claims\, studies\, and strong opinions to the test. Expect sharp arguments\, thoughtful discussion\, and plenty of data-driven punches\, to ultimately decide whether seed oils deserve a place on the plate — or a knockout from the pantry. \nHybrid seminar held in the Clinical Academic Building Room 3403\, 125 Paterson Street\, and via Zoom. \nRegister in advance for this meeting: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/onDwElZeT-iMm9lgHlhBBA
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/its-getting-hot-in-here-climate-health-seminar-series-3/
LOCATION:CAB Building\, 125 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260501T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260501T170000
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SUMMARY:Rutgers – NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion & Excellence 2026 Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Location: Rutgers Inn\, 178 Ryders Ln\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901 \nRegistration Link: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3mkh8MoVGVkhIlU
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-nyu-center-for-asian-health-promotion-excellence-2026-retreat/
LOCATION:Rutgers Inn\, 178 Ryders Ln\, New Brunswick\, NJ\, 08901\, Rutgers Inn\, 178 Ryders Ln\, New Brunswick\, New Jersey\, 08901\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260505T130000
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SUMMARY:It's getting hot in here: Climate & Health Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:“What’s in our water? Geospatial modeling of forever chemicals in drinking water systems to study cancer outcomes”\nHari S. Iyer\, ScD\, MPH\nAssistant Professor\, Rutgers Cancer Institute\nDirector\, Geospatial Data Hub\, Rutgers Center for Climate\, Health and Health Care \nPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a major source of water contamination in New Jersey and other US states. These chemicals have been called “forever chemicals” due to their persistence in the environment and human bodies\, and have been linked to multiple health risks\, including  certain cancers. In this seminar\, I will show how geospatial analysis can help produce historical reconstructions of PFAS contamination in New Jersey Drinking Water Systems. I Specific data sources used to characterize potential sources of drinking water exposure in relation to residential areas will be discussed. I will present preliminary results of model fit and epidemiologic studies of forever chemical exposures and prostate cancer outcomes. \nHybrid seminar held at IFH in the 5th Floor Conference Room and via Zoom. \nRegister in advance for this meeting: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/BaJ4wDpKTBezMcsqoytUAg
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/its-getting-hot-in-here-climate-health-seminar-series-2/
LOCATION:112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260506T120000
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SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Translational Work-in-Progress Series
DESCRIPTION:Luciana Mascarenhas Fonseca\, PhD\, Core Member\, Kreiger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center & Assistant Professor of Psychiatry\, RWJMS \n“Cognitive Vulnerability to Glucose\, Alzheimer’s disease and Down syndrome” \nAttend via Zoom:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1 \nDr. Fonseca will discuss a potential NIH grant application focused on Down syndrome\, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive vulnerability to glucose fluctuations. Her presentation will outline proposed aims and methodological approaches to better understand how metabolic variability may influence cognitive function in this population\, with the goal of identifying early markers of risk and opportunities for intervention. She welcomes feedback on refining the scientific questions and study design. Dr. Fonseca’s research focuses on early cognitive markers of dementia and brain aging in minority populations\, including within-person variability\, digital cognitive tools\, and ecological momentary assessment\, to improve early detection and advance precision aging research. This is not a formal talk\, and thus discussion and critiques are much appreciated.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementias-translational-work-in-progress-series-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260507T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260507T130000
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SUMMARY:Perspectives in Global Health Equity:  Distinguished Faculty Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Rutgers Global Health Institute presents\nPerspectives in Global Health Equity:\nDistinguished Faculty Seminar Series\n“Leveraging geospatial analysis for cancer control in sub-Saharan Africa”\nHari S. Iyer\, ScD\nAssistant Professor\, Rutgers Cancer Institute\nDirector\, Geospatial Data Hub\, Rutgers Center for Climate\, Health and Health Care\n&\nTara M. Friebel-Klingner\, PhD\, MPH\nAssistant Research Professor\,\nRutgers Global Health Institute \nThursday\, May 7\, 2026 @ 12:00pm \nZoom Registration: go.rutgers.edu/j35gvfc2
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/perspectives-in-global-health-equity-distinguished-faculty-seminar-series/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260514T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260514T190000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
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SUMMARY:Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:The Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar Series is designed to connect Rutgers faculty\, staff\, and students interested in AI training and research in health and medicine. The seminar series is co-sponsored by IFH’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI & the NJMS Center for Data Science. \n  \nSubhajyoti De\, PhD\, Professor\, Pathology & Cancer Systems Biology\, Rutgers Cancer Institute \n“Data-driven discoveries in cancer research” \n& \nAaron Milstein\, PhD\, Assistant Professor\, Dept. of Neuroscience & Cell Biology and Dept. of Neurosurgery\, RWJMS; Resident Faculty Member\, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) \n“Signatures and mechanisms of gradient descent in the brain”
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-health-artificial-intelligence-virtual-seminar-series/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:AI Virtual Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260518T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260518T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260513T202318Z
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SUMMARY:Center for Healthy Aging Research Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Rutgers Center for Healthy Aging Research Seminar\nfeaturing\nDavid M. Almeida\, PhD\nDistinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies\, Pennsylvania State University\non\n“The Surprising Science of Daily Stress and Healthy Aging”\nHealth is fundamentally a daily process\, shaped not by rare major events such as divorce\, job loss\, or serious illness\, but by the accumulation of everyday experiences. The cumulative threads of daily stress\, including exposure\, appraisal\, and responses\, form the fabric of long-term health and resilience across the lifespan. Drawing on decades of National Study of Daily Experiences (NSDE) data\, the talk introduces an Expanded Daily Stress Process Model that situates stress within daily\, person-level\, and community contexts\, as well as its immediate and long-term effects. Challenging the assumption that stress is uniformly harmful\, it highlights how manageable stress can promote adaptation and how stress processes often improve with age. By integrating psychological\, social\, and biological perspectives\, the presentation shows that understanding and optimizing daily life is key to promoting healthy aging. \n  \nDr. David Almeida is a Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Pennsylvania State University and a lifespan developmental psychologist whose work focuses on stress and coping in adulthood and aging. His research uses intensive longitudinal methods to capture both biological and self-reported indicators of stress and their links to health. Dr. Almeida’s work has centered on the role of daily stress in healthy aging\, while also examining stress processes across key contexts including the workplace\, family relationships\, parents of children with developmental disabilities\, and caregiving. His research demonstrates that minor but frequent daily stressors are often stronger predictors of health than major life events\, highlighting how everyday experiences accumulate to shape long-term health and aging trajectories. His work has been widely recognized\, with over 350 publications\, sustained NIH funding\, and national and international awards\, and has helped shift the field toward understanding health as a dynamic process unfolding in daily life. \nhttps://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94235830679?pwd=HNpveDfbZT1beIFRxY74sgv7xKUqLj.1 \nMeeting ID: 942 3583 0679 \nPassword: 734587
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/center-for-healthy-aging-research-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Healthy Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260519T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260519T150000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: MOUD Utilization Among Philadelphia Recovery Home Residents
DESCRIPTION:Combining primary data from recovery home operators and Medicaid claims data\, this webinar will describe and present preliminary findings from a pilot study describing the inner contextual factors related to resident MOUD use. Findings from the pilot study will also characterize residents’ MOUD utilization patterns during the first 90 days of their recovery home stay and examine relationships between resident MOUD use and recovery home organizational factors. \nWhat You’ll Learn  \nUpon completion of this webinar\, participants will be able to: \n\nDescribe implementation inner contextual factors at the staff level that could be related to resident-level MOUD utilization.\nUnderstand how existing data sources like health care administrative data can be used to study recovery residences and their residents and why they are important.\nDiscuss preliminary results from an analysis of MOUD utilization patterns among residents of Philadelphia-based recovery residences.\n\nPresenter \nJennifer Miles\, PhD\, is an Instructor at the Institute for Health’s Center for Health Services Research and the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Using primary survey and qualitative data combined with population-level administrative and health care claims data\, her research aims to build a reliable evidence base on effective strategies to increase equitable uptake of evidence-based practices for people with substance use disorders. \nHer work has been funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences\, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (K99DA057372)\, and the Preparedness and Treatment Equity Coalition. Her research has been published in high-impact journals such as Health Affairs\, Drug and Alcohol Dependence\, and JAMA Network Open. \nRegister to Attend \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_a-MMDg3-RkeewcghrzunLw#/registration
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/webinar-moud-utilization-among-philadelphia-recovery-home-residents/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260522T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260522T153000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
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SUMMARY:Rutgers Resilience Collective Conference
DESCRIPTION:‘Advancing Health Equity Addiction Research in Challenging Times’ \nConference sponsored by the Rutgers Resilience Collective \nKeynote speaker: Sarah Pedersen\, PhD\, “For the Communities Counting on Us: Addiction Research Moves Forward” \nSave the Date & Submit an Abstract! \nRegister to attend by April 15: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgF9k6IpCdobhtO5Ful-iXSBSKe7tHobLiLraE6VNXm5f04g/viewform \nSubmit an abstract by March 2: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTYAB-RVjhVxNFdwWBB01OTr-_2noCr_YUgBOZA2uShFDbCw/viewform
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-resilience-collective-conference/
LOCATION:112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260611T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260611T130000
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SUMMARY:Perspectives in Global Health Equity: Distinguished Faculty Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Perspectives in Global Health Equity: Distinguished Faculty Seminar Series \nHosted by Rutgers Global Health Institute \n  \nDr. Carlos Brites\, MD\, PhD\, Professor of Infectious Diseases\, Federal University of Bahia \n“HTLV-1: Co-infections and the Quest for Effective Treatment” \nDr. Brites is a Brazilian physician-scientist and infectious disease specialist internationally recognized for his work on HIV\, HTLV-1\, and viral coinfections. He is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Federal University of Bahia and leads the Laboratório de Pesquisa em Infectologia (LAPI) in Salvador\, Brazil. His research has focused extensively on the clinical and immunological consequences of HIV/HTLV-1 coinfection\, immune activation\, retroviral pathogenesis\, and antiretroviral therapy outcomes. Over the course of his career\, Dr. Brites has contributed to major advances in understanding how HTLV-1 modifies HIV disease progression\, inflammation\, and survival outcomes\, particularly in endemic regions of Brazil. His work has also explored the role of integrase inhibitors such as dolutegravir in HTLV-1 infection and proviral load suppression.  In addition to his research contributions\, Dr. Brites has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases and has been an important leader in retrovirology and infectious disease research throughout Latin America. \n📅 Thursday\, June 11 12:00pm \n🏢 IFH\, 3rd Floor Conference Room\, 112 Paterson Street\, NJ \n💻 Virtual option available upon request – contact Florencia fmodernel@globalhealth.rutgers.edu
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/perspectives-in-global-health-equity-distinguished-faculty-seminar-series-2/
LOCATION:112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260731T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260731T150000
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SUMMARY:BMIHAI Trainee Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Rutgers Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI (BMIHAI) is hosting a Trainee Symposium on Friday\, July 31\, in Piscataway. Join us to celebrate Rutgers student successes\, become part of the AI in Student Health and Wellness initiative\, and join our community! \nThe event will feature presentations from BMIHAI postdoctoral fellows and graduate and undergraduate students. A discussion panel and open mic session will also highlight BMIHAI’s new collaborative initiative using AI to promote student wellness\, health\, and retention through the MyRutgers app. \nRegister to Attend by July 27th https://shprutgers.jotform.com/261126437633051 \nThe symposium will showcase projects from the following BMIHAI programs: \n\nSummer Internship: Rutgers undergraduate and graduate students are participating in a 9-week summer internship program focused on training students for careers in biomedical informatics and health AI.\nSummer Bootcamp: Rutgers Health postdoctoral trainees and graduate students participated in this summer’s bootcamp programs on “Hands-on AI-assisted Scoping Review” and“Machine Learning for RNA-seq.”\nPostdoctoral Fellowship: Postdoctoral Health AI Research (PAIR) Fellows are pursuing research projects with mentors from across Rutgers Health in areas including surgical and ICU care\, motor and brain function analysis\, and mental illnesses.\nPilot Grants: Undergrad and graduate trainees participate in pilot grant projects led by interdisciplinary teams of researchers on topics including heart health\, substance use disorders\, and antimicrobial resistance.\n\n*Hot Lunch will be provided. \nReach out to bmihai_internship@ifh.rutgers.edu with questions. \nView agenda: Trainee Symposium Schedule
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/bmihai-trainee-symposium/
LOCATION:Daniel L. Kessler Building\, 675 Hoes Lane West\, Piscataway\, NJ\, 08854\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Informatics
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260901T140000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
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SUMMARY:Climate & Health Speaker Series: It’s Getting Hot in Here
DESCRIPTION:Center for Climate\, Health\, and Healthcare ‘Climate & Health Speaker Series: It’s Getting Hot in Here’ with: \nCatherine Chen\, MD\, FACP\, Associate Professor of Medicine\, RWJMS \n\n “Systems\, Not Silos: An Interprofessional Framework for Climate Health Education” \n\nTuesday\, September 1 1:00pm \nIFH 5th Floor Conference Room\, 112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick & Via Zoom https://go.rutgers.edu/osch642i \nClimate change is arguably medicine’s clearest case study in systems-based practice and multidisciplinary engagement. This talk maps a practical\, portable framework for embedding climate health across health professions curricula\, built through work with the Climate Health Curriculum Tool (CHCT) and grounded in real student projects spanning quality improvement\, supply chain analysis\, patient communication\, and curriculum design. \nDrawing on lessons from an active collaboration with the School of Pharmacy\, the session offers students\, educators\, and researchers concrete entry points for getting involved—whether that means proposing a project\, adapting a course\, or building the next interprofessional research collaboration.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/climate-health-speaker-series-its-getting-hot-in-here/
LOCATION:112 Paterson Street\, New Brunswick
CATEGORIES:Climate and Health
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260903T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260903T130000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
CREATED:20260818T143731Z
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SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Translational Work-in-Progress Series
DESCRIPTION:Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez\, PhD\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Neurology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School\, Resident Member of the Institute for Health (IFH) Center for Health Aging Research (CHAR) \n“The Social Exposome as a Contributor to Biological Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk” \nDr. Guzmán-Vélez directs a research program at the Rutgers Center for Healthy Aging Research focused on culturally-sensitive\, interdisciplinary observational and intervention studies. Her work aims to address brain health and dementia risk in diverse populations\, with particular interest in: 1) Identifying midlife risk factors for AD and related dementias; 2) Understanding the pathophysiology and mechanisms underlying long COVID-related neurological symptoms; 3) Testing interventions that can improve brain health and cognition. \nZoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1 \nMeeting code: 947 6980 4345 \nPasscode: 454288
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementias-translational-work-in-progress-series-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Healthy Aging
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260910T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260910T180000
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SUMMARY:Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Register today for September’s Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar on Thursday\, September 10 at 5:00pm featuring two fantastic speakers. \n  \n“Coupling functional genomics techniques with computational modeling to understand context-specific gene regulation” \nAnat Kreimer\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, RWJMS Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Associate Director\, Center for Data Science\, Rutgers Health; Core Member\, Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine \n\n“Analysis and Visualization of Structural Variants” \nAndrey Grigoriev\, PhD\, Professor\, Rutgers Department of Biology & Founding Director\, Rutgers Center for Computational and Integrative Biology \n  \nThe Rutgers Health Artificial Intelligence Virtual Seminar Series is designed to connect Rutgers faculty\, staff\, and students interested in AI training and research in health and medicine. The seminar series is co-sponsored by the NJMS Center for Data Science and IFH Center for Biomedical Informatics and Health AI. \n  \nPlease register in advance to attend and for Zoom information: \nhttps://go.rutgers.edu/mxi16u48
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-health-artificial-intelligence-virtual-seminar/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:AI Virtual Seminar
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SUMMARY:IFH Center for Healthy Aging Research Talk
DESCRIPTION:“Socioemotional Experiences and Health Across Adulthood”\nSusan T. Charles\, PhD \nProfessor of Psychology and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine \n  \nSusan T. Charles is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine. Her research examines social and socioemotional processes across the adult life span\, and how they are related to cognitive\, physical and mental health.  She has published over 150 articles and chapters and is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Association for Psychological Science; recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontological Award from the Gerontological Society of America; and recipient of the 2025 Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association for her work in adulthood and development. Her work has been continually funded by the National Institutes of Health for over two decades. \n  \nZoom Meeting \nhttps://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94235830679?pwd=HNpveDfbZT1beIFRxY74sgv7xKUqLj.1 \nMeeting ID: 942 3583 0679 \nPassword: 734587
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/ifh-center-for-healthy-aging-research-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Healthy Aging
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260929T130000
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CREATED:20260818T143647Z
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UID:7643-1790683200-1790686800@ifh.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:NJ ACTS Special Populations Seminar with Miriam Laugesen
DESCRIPTION:Miriam J Laugesen\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, Columbia University; Associate Professor\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health \n“Medicaid Payment\, Managed Care Contracting\, and Administrative Accountability in New Mexico” \nThis presentation uses New Mexico as a case study to examine how Medicaid policy can improve access by addressing both provider payment and the administrative barriers that shape provider participation. Drawing on earlier work that contributed to New Mexico’s Medicaid provider rate increases and on a July 2026 report to the New Mexico Legislature\, the talk focuses on provider enrollment\, credentialing\, contracting\, and payment-system loading in Medicaid managed care. It argues that administrative simplification should be treated as a Medicaid access strategy\, alongside adequate payment rates and stronger managed care accountability. \n\nMiriam Laugesen is an expert in physician reimbursement\, primary care\, and private investment in health care. She is the author of Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid (Harvard University Press\, 2016)\, which has influenced debates about payment reform in the United States. She has advised state policymakers on health policy\, including through a 2026 project for the New Mexico Legislature focused on administrative simplification and an earlier engagement with the New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance concerning physician payment models. \nFrom 2023 to 2024\, Laugesen was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the National Academy of Medicine. During her fellowship\, she served as a legislative fellow in the office of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren\, contributing to legislation and oversight related to private equity investment in health care. In 2023\, she was also a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Hitachi Fellow in Japan. \n  \nRegister to attend via Zoom: https://go.rutgers.edu/496ormk8
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/nj-acts-special-populations-seminar-with-miriam-laugesen/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:NJ ACTS
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261006T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261006T140000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
CREATED:20260922T175817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T175817Z
UID:7839-1791291600-1791295200@ifh.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:It's Getting Hot in Here 🔥: Climate and Health Series
DESCRIPTION:“Environmental Exposures\, Neighborhoods\, and Health: From Mortality to Children’s Health” \nAntonella Zanobetti\, PhD\, MS\, Core Member\, Center for Climate\, Health\, and Healthcare and Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School \nThis presentation provides an overview of my research examining how air pollution\, temperature\, and other environmental exposures affect human health. I will highlight findings from studies examining mortality\, neurodegenerative disorders\, and children’s health focusing on the effects of air pollution\, temperature\, greenspace\, and other environmental exposures\, as well as neighborhood characteristics. Together\, these studies illustrate how environmental exposures and neighborhood context influence health across populations and stages of life. Understanding how environmental and neighborhood exposures influence health is essential for identifying vulnerable populations\, developing effective prevention strategies\, guiding urban planning and environmental policy\, and reducing health disparities and the growing burden of environmentally related disease and premature mortality. \nThe event will be held in the 5th Floor Conference Room at IFH\, and via Zoom.\nRegister to attend via Zoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/BaJ4wDpKTBezMcsqoytUAg#/registration\n 
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/its-getting-hot-in-here-%f0%9f%94%a5-climate-and-health-series/
LOCATION:IFH and Zoom\, IFH and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Climate and Health
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261007T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261007T160000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
CREATED:20260917T165024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260930T185356Z
UID:7793-1791363600-1791388800@ifh.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:Rutgers AI/High Performance Computing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Rutgers AI/HPC Workshop: AI-Driven Research at Rutgers \nREGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. SPACE IS LIMITED! \nRegister to attend: https://shprutgers.jotform.com/262576127488166 \n  \nAgenda \nPart I: The Vision & The Platform\nSetting the stage for the new era of scientific discovery. \n09:00 AM – 09:30 AM | Welcome & Opening Remarks (Matt Kanoff – Google Antonina Mitrofanova & Leslie Lenert – Rutgers)  \n\nIntroductions\nObjectives for the day: From consumption to creation\n\n09:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Session 1: AI at Rutgers (Andy Page – Rutgers OIT & Terrell Moore – Google)  \n\nGoogle at Rutgers – A peak at existing projects\nAI at Rutgers – Voice of the customer\n\n10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Session 2: Google Cloud for Science & Gemini’s Science Vision (Adnan Khaleel & Bhanchand Prasad – Google) \n\nShift from “AI as a Tool” to “AI as a Partner.”\nThe “AI Scientist” concept: Moving beyond chatbots to research agents.\nCase studies: Accelerating literature reviews\, hypothesis generation\, and experimental design.\nDiscussion: How Generative AI is reshaping the scientific method itself.\nIntroduction to the Gemini model family\n\nPart II: Demonstrations & Application\nSeeing the tools in action before taking the wheel. \n11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Session 3: Demo – AlphaEvolve for HPC Applications – (Adnan Khaleel – Google)  \n\nLive Demo: Evolutionary algorithms optimizing High-Performance Computing (HPC) code.\nShowcase: Automating code discovery and performance tuning.\nQ&A: Integrating Alpha-based tools into existing TAMU workflows.\n\n12:00 PM – 01:00 PM | Networking Lunch (provided) \nPart III: Hands-On Labs (The “Builder” Phase)\nInteractive sessions where attendees build real AI workflows. \n01:00 PM – 01:45 PM | Capricorn demo and discussion (Terell Moore – Google & Dr. Evan Johnson – Rutgers) \n\nCapricorn: AI-powered framework that utilizes Google’s Gemini models to assist clinicians with systematic literature reviews by cross-referencing patient-specific medical cases with public databases like PubMed in minutes instead of days.\n\n01:45 PM – 02:30 PM | GCP AI Infrastructure\, DWS (Bhanchand Prasad – Google) \n\nIntroduction to AI and HPC using GCP\n\n02:30 PM – 02:45 PM | Afternoon Break \n02:45 PM – 04:15 PM | Session 4: Lab – Molecular Dynamics and Real-Time Visualization (Adnan Khaleel – Google)  \n\nObjective: How to run NAMD\, a molecular dynamics simulation program\, on GPUs using the Google Cloud Cluster Toolkit\, running the NVIDIA NAMD Container on Slurm.\nActivity: This guide provides instructions on how to run NAMD\, a molecular dynamics simulation program\, on GPUs using the Google Cloud Cluster Toolkit\, running the NVIDIA NAMD Container on Slurm using Apptainer\, and using VMD to visualize the molecular structures. Cluster Toolkit is an open-source software offered by Google Cloud\nOutcome: VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying\, animating\, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting\, and using the techniques in this example\, users will be able to run their own molecular dynamics simulations\, and visualize the 3-D results.\n\nPart IV: Conclusion\n04:15 PM – 04:30 PM | Closing & Next Steps (Adnan Khaleel & Matt Kanoff – Google)  \n\nRecap of tools used (Vertex AI\, Vizier\, Gemini).\nFinal Q&A.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/rutgers-ai-high-performance-computing-workshop/
LOCATION:RWJMS Research Tower\, 675 Hoes Lane West\, Room 822/824\, Piscataway\, NJ\, 08854\, United States
CATEGORIES:Biomedical Informatics
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CREATED:20260918T164848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T164848Z
UID:7801-1791374400-1791378000@ifh.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Translational Work-in-Progress Series
DESCRIPTION:Lihui Tu\, PhD\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Herbert and Jacqueline Krieger Klein Alzheimer’s Research Center; Rutgers Institute for Health \n“Intraindividual sleep–activity dynamics as markers of neurocognitive risk” \nDr. Tu will discuss his specific aims and intended methodology for a potential grant application examining intraindividual sleep–activity dynamics as wearable-derived markers of neurocognitive risk. He is interested in feedback and suggestions to refine the characterization of temporal features and sleep–activity phenotypes\, and to identify the most appropriate approaches for relating these measures to cognitive performance\, cognitive change\, and incident MCI/ADRD. Dr. Tu’s research focuses on cognitive aging and ADRD\, with particular interests in digital phenotyping\, longitudinal data\, and scalable markers of early neurocognitive vulnerability. \nZoom: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/94769804345?pwd=IMqJIIvuDmRl997R6O4U4NKbt6UWfs.1 \nMeeting code: 947 6980 4345 \nPasscode: 454288
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementias-translational-work-in-progress-series-4/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261027T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261027T130000
DTSTAMP:20261001T091143
CREATED:20260929T192632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T192632Z
UID:7887-1793102400-1793106000@ifh.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:NJ ACTS Special Populations Seminar with Manuel Jimenez\, MD\, MS
DESCRIPTION:“Pediatric Literacy Promotion for Latino Families” \nManuel Jimenez\, MD\, MS\, Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Family Medicine and Community Health\, Research Director at the Boggs Center on Disability and Human Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School \nPrimary care–based literacy promotion is standard of care in pediatrics. This presentation will share findings from a series of community engaged research studies designed to optimize primary care based literacy promotion for Latino families.\n\nBio: Manuel “Manny” Jimenez\, MD\, MS\, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Family Medicine and Community Health\, Research Director at the Boggs Center on Disability and Human Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School\, and an Attending Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at Children’s Specialized Hospital. He is also the co-lead for the New Jersey Alliance on Clinical and Translational Science Community Engagement Core. His work focuses on promoting optimal relational and developmental health for children and families and making the health system more responsive to their needs. Dr. Jimenez uses quantitative\, qualitative\, and community-based participatory research methods to ask policy-relevant research questions as well as propose and test sustainable solutions to real-world problems impacting children and their families.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/nj-acts-special-populations-seminar-with-manuel-jimenez-md-ms/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:NJ ACTS
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20261110T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20261110T130000
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CREATED:20260929T193545Z
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UID:7889-1794312000-1794315600@ifh.rutgers.edu
SUMMARY:NJ ACTS Special Populations Seminar with Shawnika Hull\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:“Feasibility & Acceptability of Sistas Informing Sistas About Topics on AIDS and PrEP (SISTA-P)” \nShawnika Hull\, PhD\, Associate Professor\, Department of Communication\, Rutgers University\, New Brunswick \nDr. Hull will describe the community-engaged development and testing of SISTA-P\, a Black women-specific HIV prevention intervention that is grounded in Social Cognitive Theory and Intersectionality. SISTA-P focuses on self-care activities for Black women to increase their knowledge of and recognition of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use as self-care\, and increase their PrEP uptake.  SISTA-P also trains women to increase their efficacy and skills for overcoming social-structural barriers to PrEP uptake. \nBio: Shawnika Hull (Ph.D.\, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. Her research focuses on reducing racial inequities in HIV incidence through community-engaged\, applied communication science. She develops\, implements\, and evaluates theoretically grounded communication interventions focused on impacting and overcoming individual and social-structural barriers to HIV prevention. This research is informed by and developed in close collaboration with community partners. Her expertise includes qualitative (i.e. focus groups) and quantitative (i.e. surveys\, experiments) data collection and analytical methods. Her research has been funded through various institutional\, non-profit (i.e.\, MAC AIDS Fund) and governmental mechanisms (i.e.\, NIH\, CDC) and published in communication and public health journals. Her rigorous\, theoretically grounded\, collaborative approach to research informs health communication theorizing and practice.
URL:https://ifh.rutgers.edu/event/nj-acts-special-populations-seminar-with-shawnika-hull-phd/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:NJ ACTS
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