Neal R. Boyd, Professor of Health Education and Behavioral Science, School of Public Health; Associate, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; Ed.D., Tennessee; M.S.P.H. Alabama; Certified Health Education Specialist
Teaching and research interests include smoking cessation; tobacco control; biomarker feedback/risk reduction; survey research methods; behavioral epidemiology; clinical preventive services.
Frank Fischer, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University-Newark; Ph.D., New York University; B.A., Indiana University
Teaching and research interests include environmental politics and policy.
Robert Kopp, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Director, Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience Initiative ; S.B., Chicago; Ph.D., California Institute of
Technology
Teaching and research interests include past states of the
Earth system and modeling future global change; assessments of the
effects of policy on energy, economic, and climate systems.Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Associate Professor, School of Social Work; Ph.D., Columbia
Teaching and research interests include child and family policy; poverty and inequality; and health disparities.
Karen O'Neill,
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Department of Human
Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; B.A., San
Francisco; M.A., Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Teaching and
research interests include environmental policy; U.S. history; political
sociology; comparative and historical sociology; environmental justice;
and environmental sociology.
Edward Ramsamy, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, School of Arts and Sciences
Teaching and research interests include international development
planning; geographies of globalization; political economy of transition and nation-building in
post-colonial/developing societies; comparative politics
of identity and race relations in South Africa and the United States.
Mark Gregory Robson, Professor and Extension Specialist in Entomology, Dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Rutgers; M.P.H., UMDNJ/School of Public Health
Teaching and research interests include exposure science and pesticide use, primarily in developing countries and on a global scale; risk assessment processes as they relate to public health and health policy.
Thomas Rudel, Distinguished Professor, Department of Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences; B.A., Princeton; M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale
Teaching and research interests include land-use change; tropical deforestation in the Ecuadorian Amazon; and suburban sprawl.
Rachael Shwom,
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, School of
Environmental and Biological Sciences; B.A., Syracuse; M.E.M., Duke;
Ph.D., Michigan State
Teaching and research interests include energy
efficiency policy; reducing greenhouse gas emissions; formation of
public opinions on climate change; and media's coverage of climate
change.
Olivia Wackowski, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health; Ph.D., M.P.H., UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Teaching and research interests include tobacco control; behavioral surveillance/epidemiology; risk perceptions and health communication; tobacco product marketing, communication and perceptions.
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy 
