Family & Community Health Sciences Personnel
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State Office
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator II (Eqv. to Assoc. Professor)
Chair/Program Leader
Phone: 848-932-3661
Email: elnakib@njaes.rutgers.edu
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator III (Eqv. to Asst. Professor)
Phone: 848-932-3718
Email: shukaitis@njaes.rutgers.edu
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Cape May County
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator III (Eqv. to Asst. Professor)
Phone: 609-465-5115, ext. 3603
Email: zellers@njaes.rutgers.edu
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Essex County
Family & Community Sciences Educator III
Phone: 973-353-5959
Email: jonesve@njaes.rutgers.edu
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Gloucester County
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator I (Eqv. to Professor)
Phone: 856-224-8040
Email: hughes@njaes.rutgers.edu
Expertise: Integration of health and food systems to support health and wellness; farm-to-school and school wellness initiatives; professional development programming and support in wellness policy, system and environmental change for school faculty, administration and staff; use of technology and social media in disseminating wellness messages
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County
Alexandra Grenci, MS, RDN, LDN, CDCES
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator II (Eqv. to Assoc. Professor)
Phone: 908-788-1342
Email: grenci@njaes.rutgers.edu
Expertise: Diabetes prevention/self-management; obesity prevention/weight management; chronic disease prevention; health promotion; goal setting and self-motivation; school, child, and family wellness; community collaborations in public health; food safety and home food preservation; garden-based nutrition education.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Mercer County
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Monmouth County
Family & Community Health Sciences Senior Extension Associate
Phone: 732-431-7260, ext. 7272
Email: tansey@njaes.rutgers.edu
Expertise: Health and wellness promotion, worksite wellness, healthy lifestyles, school wellness initiatives and community health education.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Passaic County
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator (Eqv. to Professor)
Phone: 973-305-5746
Email: js3531@njaes.rutgers.edu
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Somerset County
Shailja Mathur, M.S., M.Ed., RDN
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator II (Eqv. to Assoc. Professor)
Phone: 908-526-6295
Email: mathur@njaes.rutgers.edu
Expertise: Chronic Disease Prevention in the community focusing on Diabetes and Stroke targeted to south Asian population in collaboration with Rutgers Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, nutrition education outreach at local farmers market, schools and senior centers, use of social media in disseminating wellness and disease prevention messages.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Union County
Karen M. Ensle, EdD, RDN, FAND, CFCS
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator I (Eqv. to Professor)
Phone: 908-654-9854, ext. 1
Email: ensle@njaes.rutgers.edu
Expertise: Obesity prevention; small steps to health and wealth; community transformation and environmental change for healthier cities; garden-enhanced nutrition education; wellness policy changes; nutrition, food safety and health education/training for professionals, limited resource audiences, seniors and the general consumer. Use of technology and social media in disseminating wellness messages
Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Warren County
Sherri M. Cirignano, MS, RD, LDN
Family & Community Health Sciences Educator II (Eqv. to Assoc. Professor)
Phone: 908-475-6504
Email: cirignano@njaes.rutgers.edu
Expertise: Nutrition and cancer prevention, functional foods programming, food safety and food insecurity, and nutrition and physical activity needs for preschool aged children.