Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research Email Format
Research ServicesNew Jersey, United States51-200 Employees
The Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research conducts multidisciplinary and translational research aimed at improving population health. Founded in 1985, it brings together faculty from social and behavioral sciences, clinical disciplines, basic sciences, and related fields across Rutgers and beyond to form a collaborative research network. Its work emphasizes theory-based approaches to address timely challenges in health equity, healthy aging, behavioral health, pharmacoepidemiology, health services, and health policy. Based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the institute operates within the research services sector and is mid-sized. Its activities support researchers and policymakers by generating knowledge that informs health policy and practice across aging, health services, and related areas, anchored in a cross-disciplinary network. The institute maintains a broad, cross-disciplinary footprint within Rutgers' research ecosystem in New Jersey.