NJ HEROES TOO brought together researchers, healthcare, and community partners in a collaborative effort led by the following six principal investigators. Principal Investigators
SHAWNA HUDSON, PhD (Contact Principal Investigator) Professor, Research Division Chief and Henry Rutgers Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health Director, Center Advancing Research and Evaluation for Person-Centered Care Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Co-Director of Community Engagement, New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science
A three-time Rutgers University graduate, Dr. Hudson is a medical sociologist who specializes in primary care research with a focus on health equity. She has
committed her career to conducting community engaged research and cultivating trusted community partnerships. An internationally recognized leader who has written extensively on the role of primary care in long-term follow-up care for cancer survivors, she gets her inspiration and passion for this work through her service as a commissioner on the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research and as a volunteer with several local community groups. She leads and serves as a collaborator on multiple, multi-million-dollar studies funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute. Dr. Hudson has mentored more than 70 students, fellows, and junior faculty over her career and enjoys watching them thrive and pay forward their many blessings of success to the next generation of racially and ethnically diverse scholars.
DIANE HILL, PhD Assistant Chancellor for University-Community Partnerships, Rutgers University–Newark Co-Director, Center for Health Equity and Community Engagement
Assistant Professor, Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration Core Faculty Member, Rutgers Global Health Institute
Dr. Hill founded and directs the Office of University-Community Partnerships (OUCP) at Rutgers University–Newark whose mission is to promote community engagement and
create partnerships between stakeholders of Rutgers-Newark and the Greater-Newark region that support the anchor mission. Dr. Hill also founded and serves as co-director of the Center for Health Equity and Community Engagement (CHECE) which administers the Advocates for Healthy Living Initiative, a community-driven collaborative to improve the lives of older adults. Her scholarly work focuses on establishing foundations for strong, healthy communities; fostering community engagement in higher education; advancing healthcare equity and social justice; and improving urban education outcomes. Through research, lectures, collaboration, and service, Dr. Hill specializes in creating models for transdisciplinary university-community engagement and community-based participatory research. Her profound commitment to working with and improving urban communities has led to appointments on an array of national, state, and local commissions, boards, and councils. Dr. Hill earned a doctorate in Urban Systems jointly from Rutgers University Graduate School, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (formerly UMDNJ).
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