Rosabel Pastrana Vázquez moved to NJ in 2007 from Guerrero, Mexico. Mrs. Pastrana is a Health Ambassador in the City of New Brunswick and she considers her fundamental role to be a bridge between the community and the healthcare institutions.

Mariam Merced, MA has been the Director of the RWJ Barnabas Health System- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Community Health Promotion Program for the past 29 years.

Evelyn J. Rosa, director of the Middlesex College New Brunswick Center, has been serving the New Brunswick community for over twenty years. She is responsible for all aspects of the center’s services which include services and programming to college students and the adult population enrolled in non-credit credit classes. She is an active member on task forces at the college and externally.

As anchor institutions, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, RWJBarnabas Health, and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey are committed to addressing the clinical and social factors that affect health outcomes by providing wellness initiatives, cance