The NJ Safe Schools Program at Rutgers

The December 2024 seminar of the Philadelphia Regional Center for Children’s Environmental Health: The NJ Safe Schools Program at Rutgers School of Public Health, and, selected findings from 2021-2023 NJ Newer High School Teachers Training-to-Research Cohort Study. Presented by Derek G. Shendell, D.Env, MPH, Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Justice at the Rutgers School of Public Health.

Dr. Shendell focuses on community and school-based research with local participation in planning and execution, educational training (in-person and online/hybrid) and materials, service and technical assistance, and evidence-based policy recommendations. He also acts as the director of the New Jersey Safe Schools Program, where Dr. Shendell leads injury surveillance for both adolescents and young adult workers on- and off-campus and student-athletes, cosmetology and Right to Know, science-to-policy, regular statewide e-communications, and training for teachers, supervisors, and administrators as well as students in secondary career-technical-vocational education concerning safety and health, child labor laws and wage and hour laws.

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