Virginia Allread, MPH, BA

Executive Assistant to the Dean

Newark Health Sciences

SSB 1423

(973) 972-8644

  • Office of the Dean

In her role as Executive Assistant, Ms. Virginia Allread is a key staff member to the Dean. She supports accreditation efforts, provides a range of administrative, organizational, and functional coordination of activities, including writing reports and taking minutes for faculty meetings. She also supports the development and routine update of the student handbooks, policies, and the catalog.

Ms. Allread has over 30 years’ experience working in the public health field and as an academic staff administrator. Her career — which has focused primarily on HIV, reproductive health, the opioid epidemic and more generally on population health — has spanned three continents and included program planning; development of national health policy; and the translations of science into policy, procedures and practice. After working as coordinator for HIV prevention and care services for the Bexley and Greenwich Health Authority (in England) for nearly ten years, she returned to the United States to work as Executive Director of the Newark EMH HIV Health Services Planning Council from 1998 to 2002.

From 2002 to 2014, she worked for the FXB Center at the Rutgers School of Nursing, where she led a team that specialized in the development and pilot testing of curricula for in-service training of health professionals in high HIV prevalence countries in Africa and Asia. Before returning to the Rutgers School of Nursing in 2016, Ms. Allread worked as a freelance consultant. Her clients included Partners in Health in Boston and ICAP at Columbia University, for whom she updated the CDC training manuals that support country-scale up of early infant HIV diagnosis. From 2016 to 2025, Ms. Allread worked as the Executive Assistant for the Executive Vice Dean at the School of Nursing; since 2025, she has been the Executive Assistant to the Dean.

Ms. Allread has a Master of Public Health from Tulane University. After decades of a very rich career in administration, health, and public health, she still claims that her most fundamental, life-changing job was her two-year stint, straight out of university, as a Peace Corps Volunteer working as a fisheries extension agent in rural villages in western Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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