Rutgers Center for State Health Policy
An initiative within the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, the Center provides impartial policy analysis, research, facilitation, and consultation on pressing state health policy issues.
Welcome to our new Director, Dr. Lindsay Shea!
Dr. Shea leads the Center and also holds a faculty appointment at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Psychiatry.
Recent Publications
You can browse the Center's full catalog of health policy publications here.
The Association of Medicaid Estate Recovery with Homeownership, Home Equity, and Medicaid Enrollment
Barriers and Needs for Postpartum Contraception
Front & CENTER Newsletter | May 2026
Peer Support for Latine Autistic Youth and Young Adults: A Call for Interdisciplinary, Community-Centered Care
Our Focus Areas
The Center combines Rutgers' traditional academic strengths in public health, health services research, and social science with applied research techniques and policy analyses to address five key policy areas.
Featured Projects
Center faculty and staff are actively engaged in a number of research projects and collaborations addressing the health and well-being of New Jersey's vibrant and diverse communities.
The New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project enables and promotes population health research by securely linking administrative data sets to support approved research projects.
The Center has a long-standing and close working relationship with the New Jersey Department of Medical Assistance and Health Services, which oversees NJ FamilyCare, the state’s Medicaid Program.
Two longitudinal projects comprise the NJ Child Health Study. One followed a panel of low-income children in four NJ cities to study the impact of changes in the food and physical activity environment on changes in weight status and associated behaviors...
The NJHealth Study, launched in 2022 as the New Jersey Population Health Cohort Study, seeks to improve understanding of how life events and stress affect health, particularly within historically disadvantaged groups, multigenerational families, and immigrant groups.
The availability of safe, healthy, and affordable housing is foremost among the social determinants of health. Uneven metropolitan development and housing discrimination has driven deep health disparities among racial and ethnic minoritized groups, immigrant, and low-income populations in the United States. The Housing & Health Equity Cluster is working together to address health equity through housing using collaborative research, curricular innovations, and community engaged work.
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