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Date: 10-19-09
Name: Jerry Carey
Phone: 856-566-6171
Email: careyge@umdnj.edu

UMDNJ-School of Public Health Professor Receives National Teaching Award

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PISCATAWAY - Mark Gregory Robson, PhD, MPH, a professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health, has been awarded the 2009 ASPH/Pfizer Award for Teaching Excellence. This national award recognizes graduate public health faculty who are notable for their outstanding achievements in teaching and mentoring students toward distinction in public health research and practice. The award will be presented at the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) Annual Meeting on Saturday, Nov. 7, in Philadelphia.

Robson’s research focuses on the effects of residential and agricultural exposure to pesticides, particularly on children’s health, and spans international borders. He is currently the principal investigator on a project in Bangkok, Thailand, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and on another project focusing on long-term relief following tsunamis, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served on many state, national and international committees, including the NIH Blue Ribbon Panel responding to public commentary and concerns regarding the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Boston University Medical Center, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Panel and several advisory committees for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.

Robson is a contributing editor for Public Health Reports, and he is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, the Journal of Environmental Health, and New Solutions, a Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. In addition to his faculty appointment at UMDNJ, Robson is also the dean of Agricultural and Urban Programs and a professor of entomology at the Rutgers University-School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

The UMDNJ-School of Public Health is the nation’s first collaborative school of public health and is sponsored by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in cooperation with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

UMDNJ is the nation's largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,900 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health, on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits to UMDNJ facilities and faculty at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/ Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a statewide mental health and addiction services network.