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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
Neuroscientist Michael Cole Uses Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling to Help Patients With Cognitive Deficits.
As a middle-schooler growing up in Napa, California, in the Bay Area, Associate Professor Michael W. Cole learned how to program his parents’ computer and went to tech expos with his father. As an undergraduate at University of California at Berkeley, he took computer...
Community Conversations: NJ voices from COVID-19
Interactive stories, art and artifacts from the pandemic: 2020-2021 In nearly 600 artifacts submitted over seven months, Community Conversations: New Jersey’s COVID-19 Storytelling Project compiled a multimedia time capsule for New Jersey in one of the greatest crises...
Certain personal care products used during pregnancy may impact maternal hormone levels, according to a new Rutgers study
According to a paper by Rutgers environmental health scientist and epidemiologist Zorimar Rivera-Núñez, use of certain hair products impact prenatal sex steroid hormones levels. Her research focuses on chemical exposures and its effects on early life and subsequent...
Women doctors earn $2 million less than men in their careers.
They want to know: ‘Why is nothing being done?’ Women physicians said they weren’t surprised by the latest study published in Health Affairs. But many have taken matters into their own hands. Read the Full Article.
International Collaboration Between Oxolife, University of Cordoba and Rutgers Aims to Develop Treatment to Improve Women’s Fertility.
Biotechnology company Oxolife S.L. (Spain), the Energy Balance, Puberty and Reproductive Health research group of the University of Cordoba (Spain) and the Human Growth and Reproductive Development research group at Rutgers University have initiated a triple...
Here’s how you can get a free COVID test delivered to your home
The NJ Health Department has partnered with test provider Vault Medical Services to offer free COVID-19 testing for all NJ residents. Read the Full Article.