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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE OVERVIEW
NJACTS draws leading academic, industry and community groups together to understand and address the health needs of New Jersey. Central to this is engagement with our community to ensure that our efforts respond to their priorities. Our goal is to conduct research with the New Jersey community, in the community and for the community, and yet, have impact beyond our state’s boundaries.
2022 NJ ACTS Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot Program (PIAP)
Apply for up to $10k to facilitate collaboration with local organizations on health research that benefits our communities.
Click Here for the 2022 PIAP RFA
View a PIAP applicant webinar from a previous round of funding
Deadlines:
November 15, 2021 – Letter of Intent
December 15, 2021 – Applications
Community Blog
Memory screening helps prevent dementia, and you can get it for free here in N.J.
The free, confidential memory screening for adults 60+ will be offered on Nov. 3 and Nov. 17 at three Alzheimer’s research centers. All are members of the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation network, which focuses on dementia prevention and advancing clinical...
Flu Season Returns: How to Stay Safe
While social distancing and wearing masks kept last year’s flu season at an all-time low, experts expect flu cases will soar this year as students return to school and employees go back to the office and are urging people to get their flu vaccine to prevent the...
Rutgers Neurologist Explores Link Between COVID and Brain Fog, Dementia.
A new Rutgers study led by a leading neurologist who is an expert on aging will examine the effect of COVID-19 on memory loss, dementia and brain fog. “Many people who recover from mild or moderate COVID-19 notice slowed thinking or memory loss, and this motivated us...
Clinical trials speed up because of COVID.
The coronavirus pandemic has caused untold misery, pain and suffering, but it has also revolutionized how clinical trials for new drugs and treatments are carried out. When the pandemic first started in March 2020, clinical trials – like nearly everything else in New...
She’s desperate to get home care for her mom. In the U.S., 820,000 are on wait lists.
Across the country, at least 820,000 people — primarily the disabled and the elderly — are on wait lists for waivers that could help them afford home care, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Eligibility requirements, resources and wait times for these programs...
Biomarker Discovery Can Lead to Improved Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma and COPD.
Rutgers researchers have discovered that people with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have a protein in their lungs that leaks a small molecule into their bloodstream that restricts their breathing instead of relaxing their airways. The findings,...