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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.
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Empowering Community-Based Research
Through Cultural and Linguistic Collaboration
- Navigating interpreter-mediated encounters
- Effective translation for research
- Understanding cultural nuances in literacy, trust, and belonging
Through collaboration across disciplines and leveraging expertise within and beyond Rutgers, CrEER ensures that research is culturally relevant and impactful both locally and globally.
👉 Discover how CrEER is shaping the future of community-based research here.
Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ATCS) Membership for Community Members
Did you know that community members are eligible to become members of ACTS through their affiliation with NJ ACTS?
Community members are able to access ACTS’ member benefits, including:
- Discounted registration to the annual Translational Science meeting
- Opportunities to participate in Special Interest Groups and Committees
- Access to the community platform website and more!
Resource for Investigators – CTSA Compendium of D&I Catalogs
Dissemination and implementation (D&I) research focuses on translating evidence-based interventions into real-world settings to improve health outcomes in the broader community.
An open-source CTSA Compendium of D&I Catalogs has been developed by the Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program’s “Advancing Dissemination and Implementation Sciences in CTSAs” working group to support investigators at any stage of their D&I skill-building journey. It provides a curated list of resource catalogs relevant to the conduct of D&I science. The materials include frameworks/theories/models, methods/measures, funding resources, and practice and training resources.
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CIRTification – A New Alternative to CITI for Community Partners
The rollout of CIRTification at Rutgers has begun. The CIRTification program provides research ethics training alternatives for individuals in community organizations, with limited understanding of conducting human research and protecting potential research participants. This option provides training focused on equipping community partners to conduct human subject research effectively and safely in their communities.
To learn more about the program at Rutgers, please visit this link CIRTification.
NJ ACTS COMMUNITY SCIENTIST PROGRAM
This program is designed to provide researchers with rapid feedback from expert community members to ensure their research projects are culturally appropriate and relevant to the community.
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For more information, please contact njactscommunity@rwjms.rutgers.edu
NJ HEROES TOO
Through the ongoing New Jersey Healthcare Essential Worker Outreach and Education Study – Testing Overlooked Occupations (NJ HEROES TOO), we have gained a wealth of data on COVID-19’s effects, gleaned valuable learnings on attitudes toward testing and vaccines, and improved COVID-19 awareness in underserved communities.
Community Blog
Trauma-Informed Education Could Improve Outcomes for Justice-Involved Black Adolescents.
Sexual and substance use education that incorporates knowledge about trauma could improve developmental outcomes among justice-involved Black youth, according to a Rutgers study published in the journal Children and Youth Services Review. “For black adolescents in the...
Google Search Predictions Increased Pandemic Fears, Anxiety for Spanish Speakers.
Dr. Google is always in, but for Spanish speakers searching for health information online, the advice Google gives isn’t always helpful. Sometimes, it’s downright terrifying. Research by Rutgers public health and information science experts found that during the...
New Jersey’s Temporary Health Care License Program Expanded Mental Health Services During Pandemic.
At least 3,700 out-of-state mental health providers utilized New Jersey’s COVID-19 Temporary Emergency Reciprocity Licensure program to provide mental health services to more than 30,000 New Jersey patients during the first year of the pandemic, according to a Rutgers...
Early Lyme Disease May Include Neurologic Lyme Disease.
Rheumatologists can play a major role in diagnosing and treating neurologic Lyme disease, according to a paper published in the journal Pathogens by an immunologist and rheumatologists at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. The...
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core on May 24th!
Incarceration, Health, and the Life Course with Nathan Link, PhD Wednesday, May 24, 2023 1–2 pm Join on Zoom View Flyer Professor Link will discuss his research on the connections between incarceration and health, including how mental and physical health states impact...
Plastic Particles Themselves, Not Just Chemical Additives, Can Alter Sex Hormones.
Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also disrupt sex hormones, a Rutgers laboratory trial shows that plastic itself can do likewise when inhaled at moderate levels. Previous studies focused on chemicals such as bisphenol-A (BPA) that make...