T he Office of Global Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School “is the flagship of Rutgers’ global health programs,” says Javier I. Escobar, MD, professor of psychiatry and family medicine and associate dean for global health, above right, with Dr. Marlink. “Integration of the uni- versity’s global health programs supports a major objective of the Office of Global Health: to serve as a resource for other schools at Rutgers.” diverse and effective solutions to global health problems,” says Dr. Marlink, citing some examples. The Rutgers School of Business could be involved in solving supply chain problems to expedite medication and materials to remote places, he says. And the School of Engineering could develop further biomedical engineering solutions for poor populations. The Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences are outstanding resources for addressing health problems caused by climate change. Locally, an excellent model for community health is provided by the Eric B. Chandler Health Center, with leadership shared by the medical school and a community board. “We also have tremendous resources at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey,” adds Dr. Marlink. “People in develop- ing countries usually do not have access to pain medications, and they’re dying from preventable and treatable cancers. We could focus on these urgent problems, matching our expertise with the global need for cancer prevention and care.” In several areas of the university, global health is already a focus: the Office of Global Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, an office for global health at New Jersey Medical School, the Center for Global Public Health at the School of Public Health, and the Center for Global Health at the Rutgers School of Nursing. The Office of Global Health at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is “the flagship of Rutgers’ global health programs,” says Javier I. Escobar, MD, professor of psychiatry and family medicine and associate dean for global health. Robert Wood Johnson I MEDICINE 15