Mitchel Rosen
Public Health Director

I am the Director of the Office of Public Health Practice at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health. As Director, I oversee many public health projects, including occupational safety and health, emergency preparedness, public health education, and workforce development. The combination of science, education, and business brought me to public health. I am interested in providing education to various populations to be able to protect their health. I started as a health educator, developing and implementing occupational safety and health training programs for hazardous waste workers. I was interested in ensuring that workers would be safe and healthy while working at these dangerous work sites. The training provided to the workers had a direct effect on their safety, preventing injuries and accidents.

Because protecting workers is an area of interest, I am expanding it to include young workers. I want teenagers to understand the value of safety when they take their first job and be able to carry that knowledge throughout their lives.

Mitchel A. Rosen
Director
Office of Public Health Practice
UMDNJ-School of Public Health