About Us

Overview

The Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, a unit within Rutgers Health, is a hub for multidisciplinary and translational research focused on improving population health.

Since its 1985 founding by Dr. David Mechanic, IFH has become nationally renowned for meaningful and impactful work in health research. IFH continues to build on this legacy while preserving the multidisciplinary structure and dynamic that makes it truly unique.

IFH fosters rigorous theory-based research and innovative training and supports collaborative opportunities for investigators across New Jersey and beyond, advancing the translation of knowledge to impact policy and practice

Membership

Overview

IFH’s core and associate members have generated award-winning scholarship and account for many of those elected to the National Academy of Medicine/Institute of Medicine from Rutgers Health. Our adjunct members facilitate our core value of interdisciplinary collaboration through participation of non-Rutgers University faculty.

Accordion Content

  • Core faculty members will be Rutgers faculty whose research area(s) are aligned with IFH’s mission, whose research is administered through IFH, and whose office location is at IFH. Core members will be involved in all aspects of the development of the Institute and have access to IFH resources.

    Eligibility:

    • Accomplished Rutgers faculty whose research area(s) are aligned with IFH’s mission on population health and PI* of active, independent, and peer-reviewed funded research project(s)
    • Project(s) administered through IFH and primary office space in IFH
    • *If faculty is based elsewhere at Rutgers, agreement is needed between Dean and IFH Director
  • Associate faculty members will be Rutgers faculty members whose research focus area(s) align with IFH’s mission and related activities, but whose work is primarily based in other Rutgers units.

    Eligibility:

    • Rutgers faculty whose research focus area(s) complements IFH’s mission and related activities
  • Adjunct members will be non-Rutgers colleagues from other institutions, state agencies, or other partners whose focus area(s) align with the IFH’s mission and related activities.

    Eligibility:

    • Non-Rutgers University Faculty/researchers/policy experts whose focus area(s) complements the IFH’s mission and related activities

Contact

Phone

(848) 932-8413