Partners & Affiliates

AISP is housed at the University of Pennsylvania and co-directed by professors Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy and Practice and John Fantuzzo of the Graduate School of Education. The organization was born out of Culhane and Fantuzzo’s shared experience working with the City of Philadelphia in the early 2000s to leverage cross-sector data to improve child outcomes. This innovative work led them to inventory and connect with other similar data efforts across the country, and eventually inspired them to create a national network to advance best practices in data sharing.

The State-University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN), managed by AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute, collaboratively works to support evidence-based state health policy and practice with a focus on transforming Medicaid-based health care, including addressing health inequities and improving the patient experience, health of populations, and efficiency in health care.

The Community Foundation of New Jersey and Community Foundation of South Jersey are partners with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in the co-creation and implementation of New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) to advance a culture of health in New Jersey, “where everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.” Over the past 35 years, NJHI invested $100 million in more than 300 projects and grants statewide to advance health equity and empower community-level organizations to be effective advocates.

The Camden Coalition is a multidisciplinary, community-based nonprofit working to improve care for people with complex health and social needs in the city of Camden, across New Jersey, and around the country. They develop and test care management models and redesign systems in partnership with consumers, community members, health systems, community-based organizations, government agencies, payers, and more, with the goal of achieving person-centered, equitable care. And, as one of New Jersey’s four Regional Health Hubs, they work with regional partners, New Jersey’s Medicaid office, and other state agencies to expand data-sharing and collaboration between organizations so that patients across South Jersey experience seamless, whole-person care.

Monarch Housing Associates was incorporated in June 1990 by the Mental Health Association of NJ (MHANJ). For a year prior to the incorporation, MHANJ’s Policy Committee had researched and debated various options to provide independent housing for persons with mental illness. Through this process MHANJ determined that housing with attached supportive services was needed to enable those with mental illness the opportunity to successfully transition into independent living. Monarch Housing Associates was formed as a vehicle to support the development of supportive housing throughout New Jersey.  Rather than become a developer/owner, Monarch took the unique road of contracted partner to community service providers functioning as development staff assisting in the process of building supportive housing.  Monarch would go on to collaborate with agencies providing mental health services to assist them in moving into the housing development space.  In doing so, service providers would reimagine their role as not only offering supportive services but also as housing developer/owner to ensure those that they served had the comprehensive support necessary to foster growth, recovery and stability.

The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) is a policy design and implementation partner devoted to improving outcomes for people enrolled in Medicaid. CHCS works to improve health outcomes for the millions of people in the U.S. who face serious barriers to well-being, like poverty, complex health and social needs, and systemic racism. For more than 25 years, they have collaborated with Medicaid and related health and human services agencies in states across the country to shape how health care services are designed, financed, and delivered. This experience — both on the ground and in partnership across sectors and regions — gives them a unique vantage point on opportunities to strengthen and align systems so that more people can access quality care and be as healthy as possible.

At Rutgers University’s 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. Located in New Brunswick, NJ, 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.

Founded in 1983 within the former UMDNJ, we have locations in Newark and New Brunswick as well as hybrid and remote course options. Under the leadership of Dean Perry N. Halkitis, the school has become a leader in bioethics, cancer health disparities, climate change and planetary health, HIV, COVID-19, TB, and other infectious diseases, modern statistical methods, pharmacoepidemiology, sexual and reproductive health, LGBTQ+ health, population aging and mental health, gun violence prevention, and much more.

The mission of the Rutgers School of Social Work is to develop and disseminate knowledge through social work research, education, and training that promotes social and economic justice and strengthens individual, family, and community well-being in this diverse and increasingly global environment of New Jersey and beyond.

Through specialized training, patient-centered medicine, and an innovative curriculum, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, located in New Brunswick and part of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, prepares students to become resilient, adaptable physicians who value lifelong learning and provide high-value, ethical, and appropriate care in an ever-changing health care system.

The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University—New Brunswick studies how American politics and government work and change, analyzes how the democracy might improve, and promotes political participation and civic engagement. The Institute explores state and national politics through research, education, and public service, linking the study of politics with its day-to-day practice.

The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law exists primarily to educate lawyers and health care industry professionals regarding the extraordinarily complex set of laws that govern patients, health care providers, manufacturers, and suppliers. Furthermore, Center faculty and research fellows produce scholarship, white papers, and recommendations for policy on the varied and complex issues posed by health and pharmaceutical law, health care access, human subject research, mental health issues, and non-profit governance.