Community and Belonging Lecture | Built to Belong: From Advocacy to Action in Launching New Jersey’s Public Health Institute

The Bloustein School Annual Community and Belonging Lecture is presented by Dr. Denise Anderson, an accomplished public health executive with experience in hospitals, government, nonprofit organizations, and academia. She is the Inaugural Executive Director of The Center for Health Equity & Wellbeing, New Jersey’s newly designated Public Health Institute. She serves on the boards of the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey (AACCNJ) and is President-Elect of the New Jersey Public Health Association (NJPHA). She holds a BS in Human Ecology, an MPH from Rutgers, and a Ph.D. in Urban Systems from Rutgers and NJIT. Further, Dr. Anderson is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Prevention Service Fellow, an Eagleton Institute of Politics Fellow, and a Yale Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Health Equity Leadership. Registration is requested by visiting go.rutgers.edu/anderson26. Public institutions do more than administer programs and distribute resources; they communicate whose experiences matter, whose voices influence decisions, and who belongs within the systems designed to protect our collective well-being. Building equitable public health…