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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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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!
Multilingual Maternal & Child Health Research: Pioneering Strategies for Equity
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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, practice resources, training, and health equity resources. Click here to learn more.
CIRTification – A New Alternative to CITI for Community Partners
The rollout of CIRTification at Rutgers has begun. The CIRTification program provides research ethics training alternative for individuals in community organizations, with limited understanding of conducting human research and protecting potential research participants. This option provides training that focuses on establishing the skills in 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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Community Blog
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core on May 24th!
Incarceration, Health, and the Life Course with Nathan Link, PhD Wednesday, May 24, 2023 1–2 pm Join on Zoom View Flyer Professor Link will discuss his research on the connections between incarceration and health, including how mental and physical health states impact...
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Plastic Particles Themselves, Not Just Chemical Additives, Can Alter Sex Hormones.
Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also disrupt sex hormones, a Rutgers laboratory trial shows that plastic itself can do likewise when inhaled at moderate levels. Previous studies focused on chemicals such as bisphenol-A (BPA) that make...
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Battling Bias in AI.
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in everyday life, concerns have grown around bias in its programming. Many of the tasks performed by AI are simple and innocuous, but as its capabilities expand, so does its potential for wide-ranging impact....
Propelus I-Corps Training Program – Apply by May 15th!
Propelus I-Corps Regional Program - June 2023 Through the program, I-Corps provides training and grants to support team-based customer research aimed at investigating the viability and societal impact of scientific and technological discoveries. Apply by May 15th....
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Rutgers, RWJBarnabas Health and Woods Services to Open Care Center for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Autism.
People with autism and intellectual disabilities historically have a life expectancy nearly 20 years less than the general population in part because of a lack of specialized care. To address these health inequities, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, the...
Join NJ ACTS BERD Core on May12th for An Intro to AI Techniques for Forecasting Epidemic Dynamics!
REGISTER HERE Speaker: Dr. Lijing Wang Target Audience: Those interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (DL), and epidemiology. Workshop Description: This workshop covers the state-of-the-art for epidemic forecasting. It starts...