Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Faculty
Dona Schneider

Dona Schneider, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Associate Dean for Programs
B.A., Trenton State College; M.A., Rutgers; M.P.H., Rutgers/ University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Ph.D., Rutgers

 

Contact Information

Civic Square Building, room 554

Phone (732) 932-4101 x682

Fax (732) 932- 6564

E-mail donas@rutgers.edu

 

Research Interests

  • Health and policy issues facing American children and minorities
  • Mortality and morbidity
  • High risk behaviors

 

Courses

  • Classic Papers in Public Health
  • Epidemiology for Health Policy and Planning

 

Publications and Activities

  • NJ HIV Prevention Community Planning Support and Development Initiative (PI)
  • Community-based Asthma Intervention Project in Elizabethport, NJ (PI)
  • Author of a two-volume set, Public Health: The Development of a Discipline (with David E. Lilienfeld), for Rutgers Press. Volume I will appear in January 2008.
  • Professional Advisory Board, Transplant Speakers International.

 

Profile

Dona Schneider is Director of the Undergraduate Programs at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Professor Schneider is an active member of the faculty of the UMDNJ School of Public Health, a member of the Environmental Policy Division of the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) and a member of the Epidemiology Section of the Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). A Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology and a medical geographer by training, Dr. Schneider has chaired both the Medical Geography Specialty Group and the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers. Her publications include numerous articles on risk factors for childhood and minority cancers and other chronic diseases.

 

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