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Emmy Tiderington

Lead Cluster Champion

Emmy Tiderington, PhD, LMSW, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Associate Faculty at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers


Joel Cantor

Lead Cluster Champion

Joel Cantor, ScD is a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and the founding Director of the Center for State Health Policy, a unit of Rutgers Health (formerly Rutgers Biomedical and


Sara Elnakib

Cluster Champion

Sara Elnakib, PhD, MPH, RDN, is an Educator/Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Family & Community Health Sciences at Rutgers Cooperative Extension. Her research focuses on the use


Kathe Newman

Cluster Champion

Kathe Newman, PhD is a Professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Development Program at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and Director of the Ralph


Dan Treglia

Core Cluster Faculty

Dan Treglia, PhD is an Instructor at the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. Dr. Treglia is a social policy researcher with a focus on housing and income instability and


Katherine Marçal

Core Cluster Faculty

Katherine Marçal, PhD, MSW, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and a member of the Child Well- Being Research Network. She received her bachelors, masters, and


Veronica M. Jones

Core Cluster Faculty

Veronica M. Jones, PhD, MPH, CHES, joined the Rutgers Cooperative Extension as a Family and Community Health Sciences Educator (Assistant Professor) for Essex County in June 2023. Dr. Jones is


Matt Mleczko

Cluster Affiliate

Matt Mleczko, PhD, is a Housing and Health Equity Cluster Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning


Michael Yedidia

Cluster Affiliate

Michael J. Yedidia (Ph.D., Brandeis University; M.P.H., Yale University) is a Professor and Senior Medical Sociologist at the Rutgers University Center for State Health Policy and the Institute for Health.


Hector Blanco

Cluster Affiliate

Hector Blanco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Hector is an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of public finance and urban economics, with