The mission of the Bloustein School is to create just, socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable, and healthy local, national, and global communities.
At the Bloustein School, the disciplines and professions of urban planning, public policy, public health, health administration, and public informatics are strongly situated in an educational context that stresses social science education and public service.
The school's research and scholarship touch on a wide array of issues that affect public welfare including designing healthy communities, better understanding the social determinants of health, researching ways to effectively and economically combat and adapt to climate change, and much more.
Our students are being trained to think about what can be done to make society better.
Edward J. Bloustein-- Rutgers president, constitutional scholar, active citizen, philosopher, and teacher-- lived a life of civic engagement that the school's ethic seeks to perpetuate. The Bloustein ethic strives to improve the quality of public discourse by producing ideas and measures that have impact, engaging those who do their jobs not just honorably, but with a passion for their work that alters their surroundings. The Bloustein School seeks to foster new research and thinking that achieve both scholarly recognition and public acceptance.
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy 
