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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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Anti-Opioid Toolkit in NJ Now Includes Outreach Vans, Special Emergency Response
NJ Spotlight reports outreach vans and emergency responders trained in new treatments are part of the new anti-addiction toolkit that providers are using to expand access to opioid treatment in New Jersey.
How translational medicine could revolutionize health care in NJ
A $33 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to three New Jersey institutions is helping the state get one step closer to making this practice, called personalized — or translation medicine — a reality, taking medical breakthroughs from the bench to the...
Jazz for Prostate Cancer Awareness Gala
Jazz for Prostate Cancer Awareness™ (Jazz4PCA™) is hosting it’s 2019 Holiday Gala featuring Nat Adderly Jr. on Sunday, December 8th, 2019 from 4pm to 8pm at the Rutgers Club in Piscataway, NJ. For tickets, please visit: http://jazz4pca.org To read the full...
Can compassion help heal patients — and providers?
Using high-tech tools, neuroscientists are literally reading minds to understand and increase compassion.
Chronic opioid therapy can disrupt sleep, increase risk of sleep disorders
Patients and medical providers should be aware that chronic opioid use can interfere with sleep by reducing sleep efficiency and increasing the risk of sleep-disordered breathing. Read the full article.
Living Your Best Life
Join our colleagues as they raise health awareness in our senior community. The program will feature an exclusive Q&A with local medical/health professionals. To RSVP for this event either call 973-353-5696 or email habeebah.y@rutgers.edu. Senior LTR Flyer