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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
A quarter of children being raised by grandparents face hunger
A new report finds the rate of food insecurity among grandparent-headed households with grandchildren is 60 percent higher than that of all households with children. Food insecurity negatively impacts a child’s ability to learn and grow and has long-term health...
Decades-Long Push to Lower Stillbirth Rate in the U.S. Has Stalled, Rutgers-Led Research Finds.
A decades-long effort to lower the stillbirth rate in the United States has stalled, as has progress in closing a persistent gap in excess stillbirths experienced by Black women compared with White women, according to a Rutgers-led study. “Over the last 40 years, we...
Krystal Lum and Brandon Trejo awarded 2022 NIH-funded NJ ACTS Translational Science fellowships.
This past summer, two members of the Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology (MOL) were awarded The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) TL1 Fellowships. Graduate student Brandon Trejo and postdoctoral researcher Krystal...
Study Differentiating Function of Two Immune Cells Could Improve Vaccine Design.
The immune system’s ability to remember defeated disease-causing germs and prevent subsequent infections remains incompletely understood, but a study in Science Immunology clarifies an important piece of the picture. Rutgers researchers used specially bred mice to...
Register now for N3C PHASTR Initiative Q&A Webinar – TODAY
The N3C PHASTR (N3C Public Health Answers to Speed Tractable Results) initiative is a new opportunity to use N3C data to provide fast, actionable analyses on high-impact COVID-19 public health questions. It also offers an opportunity to increase community engagement...
Please Join Us for the RITMS Visiting Professor Lecture Series on December 1st at 11 am
“So What is Aging: Is Cardiovascular Aging a Disease?” Edward Lakatta, MD Senior Investigator, Chief of Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science National Institute on Aging 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Thursday, December 1st, 2022 In person at the Biomedical Engineering Building...