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Take Five with Lindsay L. Shea, DrPH, MS
Lindsay L. Shea, DrPH, MS, is Director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy (CSHP), a role she began in July 2026. She also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Before joining Rutgers, she led the Policy and Analytics Center at the A.J. Drexel…Read More…
Coverage Isn’t Care If You Can’t Get an Appointment
At the Quality Institute we spend a lot of time working to keep people covered by health insurance. Families, employers, and government put enormous resources into that coverage through premiums, taxes, and public programs. We do this because coverage is supposed to mean access to care. But if a person with insurance can’t get an…Read More…
Take Five with Frank A. Ghinassi, PhD, ABPP
Frank A. Ghinassi, PhD, ABPP, is President and CEO of Rutgers Health University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) and Senior Vice President of the Behavioral Health and Addictions Service Line at RWJBarnabas Health. He is a new member of the Quality Institute’s Board of Directors. Before joining Rutgers, he was Vice President for Quality, Patient Safety…Read More…
H.R. 1 Education Sessions and Materials Coming for Health Care Organizations and Other Key Stakeholders
Throughout New Jersey, the State and many partner organizations are working to keep as many people covered as possible. This month, the Quality Institute is releasing education sessions, materials, and resources to support this work – with a focus on key groups across the health care system that interact with New Jersey residents as they…Read More…
Take Five with Iris Jones, MA, LPC, LCADC, NCC, CCS, PMH-C
Iris Jones is the Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Family Health Services at the New Jersey Department of Health. She joined the Department as Executive Director of Women’s Health and was promoted to her current role last fall. Before moving into public health, she co-founded the Cooper Center for Healing EMPOWR clinic that provides…Read More…
New Jersey’s Immunization Rates Are Slipping. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
This week, President Trump issued an executive order urging states to disregard long-standing, evidence-based recommendations on child and adolescent vaccines. Fortunately, New Jersey took the legal steps to decouple its vaccine requirements from the federal government and instead link them to trusted non-political sources such as the American Academy of Pediatrics. I fully expect that…Read More…