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The HIV Prevention Community Planning Support and Development Initiative is a joint initiative of the State of New Jersey Department of Health, Division of HIV, STD and TB Services, and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. The HIV prevention initiative provides training for state grantees in basic skills training and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Effective Behavioral Intervention. The initiative also combines HIV care, treatment, and prevention efforts in order to make the best use of resources, while improving efficiency and effectiveness in planning in the state of New Jersey.

Based out of the School of Social Work, the Huamin Research Center has a mission to develop and disseminate knowledge through research and exchange that promotes professional development of nonprofit organizations and strengthens individual, family, and community well-being in China.

The Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey aims to operate a world-renowned institute of excellence in human and medical genetics, to collaborate with and enhance research and training programs in the life sciences at Rutgers, and to facilitate scientific relationships with the private sector.

Housed within the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, the Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center is a unique site consisting of one of the last uncut forests in the Mid-Atlantic, as well as surrounding old fields and young forest. With more than 200 hectares of land under conservation, the center is devoted to the protection of the old forest and research aimed at advancing ecological understanding.

The Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences is an interdisciplinary community that fosters research, education, and outreach about the Earth's interior, continents, oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere, their interactions, and co-evolution through our planet's history, and humanity's dependence and impacts upon these systems. Among the many initiatives and facilities within the institute's community are cutting-edge research and instruction on assessing and managing the risks that climate change and habitat change create for communities, economies, and ecosystems; one of the world’s leading integrated oceanic and atmospheric observation and prediction systems; and active oceanographic, ecological and glaciological field programs in the Arctic and the Antarctic.

As part of the Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick, the Institute for Ethical Leadership is dedicated to the study of leadership ethics and to programs for students and practitioners that aim to cultivate the knowledge and imagination to exercise ethical and effective leadership.

The Institute for Families at the School of Social Work has a mission to support and strengthen families and communities by increasing the capacity of human service professionals and organizations. The institute achieves this through training, technical assistance, professional development, applied research and evaluation, and direct service and advocacy.

The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research facilitates collaboration among the social and behavioral sciences, clinical disciplines, basic sciences, and related fields to promote research on critical population health issues. The institute is comprised of three major divisions, four centers, a community health collaborative, a research group, an undergraduate research training program, and a national program office funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Institute for Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases at New Jersey Medical School is a hub for centers of excellence that pursue novel approaches to detect, treat, and prevent a wide range of current and emerging diseases caused by infectious agents and harmful inflammation. Research at the institute focuses on the breakthrough field that examines the link between infectious and inflammatory diseases.

As part of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Institute for Neurological Therapeutics has a mission to promote translational research to illuminate the pathogenesis of chronic incurable neurodegenerative disorders and develope novel therapies. The institute provides an environment for training graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and physician scientists in translational research in neurological therapeutics. Undergraduates, medical students, and neurology residents or trainees from other departments who wish to explore research opportunities in neurologic diseases also rotate through institute's laboratories