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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.
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Fully vaccinated? Congratulations! You’ve taken an important step toward protecting yourself—and others—from COVID-19. Reminder: You’re considered “fully vaccinated” once it’s been two weeks since your second dose in a two-dose series (like the Pfizer-BioNTech or...
Here’s where N.J.’s healthiest people live. See where your county ranks.
The annual ranking of healthy counties in America is based on a data analysis by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute that takes into account factors such as lifestyle habits, crime, disease and mortality rates, educational and financial success and...
Rutgers to Open COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics for Faculty, Students and Staff
Rutgers announced Tuesday that the State of New Jersey has approved its application to be a dispensing site for COVID-19 vaccines for the university’s faculty, staff and students. Once the university’s vaccine allotment has been determined and supplied by the state,...
Does Your Child Have MIS-C, COVID-19 or Kawasaki Disease?
A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association determined clinical criteria for diagnosing multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) from severe COVID-19 and Kawasaki disease, which have similar symptoms. Diagnosing and treating MIS-C –...
New Jersey residents with disabilities demand COVID-19 vaccine priority
Despite the continuous risks of COVID-19 and a disorganized vaccine rollout, many across the country, specifically those within marginalized communities, continue to face hurdles as they seek to be vaccinated. For New Jersey's residents with disabilities, registering...
The year of COVID: The vulnerability of being Black or brown
My grandmother used to say “there’s something good in everything.” That’s hard to imagine, considering the past year. With the death toll from the pandemic now standing at over half a million, the scope of human loss is unfathomable, like a math equation that leads to...