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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
COVID-19 Health Briefing on December 2nd at 8:30am
The COVID-19 Health Briefing, hosted by Chancellor Brian Strom, offers important information on COVID-19-related topics ranging from the state of the pandemic to health agency guidance, campus testing news, clinical updates, and other news. Join via Zoom....
Rutgers researchers study medication to curb spread of HIV.
The COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed major health issues that still impact New Jersey, putting things like HIV prevention on the back burner for public attention. But urban parts of the state like Essex and Hudson counties continue to see relatively high rates of...
Why Health Care Workers are Quitting in Droves
About one in five health care workers has left medicine since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the health-care sector has lost nearly half a million workers since February...
Rutgers researchers study medication to curb spread of HIV
The COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed major health issues that still impact New Jersey, putting things like HIV prevention on the back burner for public attention. But urban parts of the state like Essex and Hudson counties continue to see relatively high rates of...
Building a pipeline to replenish the supply of primary care doctors in N.J.
The Health Resources and Services Administration projects that 37 states will have a shortage of primary care physicians by 2025, with 12 of them, including New Jersey, having a deficit of 1,000 or more physicians because of the aging American population and the...
‘They See Us as the Enemy’: School Nurses Battle Covid-19, and Angry Parents
School nurses, who were already stretched thin before the pandemic, say that they are overworked and overwhelmed. Even before the pandemic hit, the job of a school nurse extended far beyond tending to playground scrapes. School nurses manage chronic conditions, like...