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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
Key to handling coronavirus outbreak is to flatten out spread, doctor says
Dr. Martin Blaser, Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine Director, and Dr. Celine Gounder, infectious disease expert and host of the “Epidemic” podcast, join “Squawk Box” to discuss the latest regarding containing the coronavirus outbreak. To watch...
‘Social distancing’ could help slow the spread of coronavirus
Suzanne Willard, associate dean of global health at Rutgers University School of Nursing, talks about social distancing as a way to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
Guidance on the Conduct of Clinical Research at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Our primary goal is to protect our patients, study participants, providers and researchers from COVID-19 exposure, and to fill the gap for our research community in the absence of guidance from the National Institutes of Health or the Centers for Disease Control...
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Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Part of Worldwide HIV Vaccine Trial
New Jersey Medical School Clinical Research Center is the only site in the state participating in a worldwide effort to enroll 3,800 HIV negative individuals in the first Phase 3 HIV vaccine efficacy trial conducted in more than a decade. To read the full article.
NJ ACTS Biostatistics and Epidemiology Workshop Series – 03/31/20
NJ ACTS BERD Core will be presenting, Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials: an introduction and examples. Professor Yong Lin of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology will present from 1:30pm to 3:00pm at the Medical Education Building – Lecture Hall 102, 1...