Sara Heinert, PhD, MPH

Sara Heinert is the Co-Director of Research and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Emergency Medicine. She earned her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago, her MPH from the University of Michigan, and her BA in Psychology and BA in Statistics from the University of Rochester.

Her academic interests include social emergency medicine, health disparities, youth as health advocates, hypertension and diabetes, and cancer screening and prevention.

Current Grant Funding

• New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) KL2 Award, "A Youth-Led Digital Education Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure for Hypertensive Adults Who Present to the Emergency Department."
• New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) CEC Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot (PIAP) Program, "Engaging Youth as Citizen Scientists to Determine Health Needs of New Brunswick Adults."
• Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) Center for Cancer Health Equity Mini Pilot Program, "An Assessment of Needs for Cancer Screening Education in a Diverse Emergency Department."
• New Jersey Health Foundation, "Implementation of a Student Volunteer Patient Navigator Program to Improve Breast Cancer Screening Adherence within an Emergency Department Setting in Two Safety Net Hospitals."