In New Jersey, where environmental challenges impact countless communities, Rutgers Health’s Center for Environmental Exposure and Disease (CEED) has been a steadfast ally for more than three decades, working alongside residents to tackle pressing local health threats. From contaminated water and soil to harmful pollution levels, CEED’s partnerships with communities across the state have led to meaningful, transformative change.
Now the center is strengthening its efforts, forging even deeper connections with local communities to address emerging environmental health concerns. “We’re committed to doing research that matters,” said Helmut Zarbl, director of the center and chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice at the Rutgers School of Public Health. “Our state is a microcosm of longstanding and emerging environmental problems confronting the entire nation. Our overall goal is to improve the environmental health of people in New Jersey.”
Established in 1987 and comprised of 63 members from departments within Rutgers University, Princeton University, Rowan University, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the center is located at the Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute on the Busch campus at Rutgers-New Brunswick. It has been building relationships and performing research in and for communities for more than 37 years. To read the full story.