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Rutgers Midwifery in the News

November 2025

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Faculty Receives 2025 Society of Family Planning Mentor Award
Laura Lindberg, a professor in the Department of Urban-Global Public Health at the Rutgers School of Public Health, has received the 2025 Mentor Award from the Society of Family Planning….Read More

November 2025

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Nurse-Midwifery Leader Is Honored for Work in Maternal and Child Health

Julie Blumenfeld of Rutgers Health receives the 2025 Dorothea M. Lang Pioneer Award for her trailblazing work in education and advocacy…Read More 

July 2025

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Rutgers leaders join groundbreaking for New Jersey’s flagship Maternal and Infant Health Innovation Center in Trenton

Rutgers officials at the groundbreaking included Dr. Vicente Gracias, senior vice chancellor for clinical affairs and vice president for health affairs, Rutgers University; Dr. Julie Blumenfeld, clinical associate professor…Read More

November 2024

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New era for midwifery in New Jersey?

Decades after NJ was among the first states with graduate-level midwifery training, options expand for students…Read More

July 2024

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Rutgers celebrates 50 years of growing midwifery in the Garden State

As the School of Nursing program enters its second half-century, the midwifery model of care is more relevant than ever, experts say…Read More