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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
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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Rutgers School of Nursing–Camden receives $1M grant to launch first-of-its-kind training academy.
Despite dire staffing shortages, it has never been more difficult to become a nurse. In 2021, while patients languished in emergency room hallways—awaiting beds that sat unused—nearly 92,000 qualified applicants were turned away from nursing programs due to...
New Tobacco Product Marketing Depends on Demographics.
A study by the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies and the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center will help establish policy on the sale and marketing of two different tobacco products recently introduced to the United States market. The study, published...
Join NJ ACTS for the NIH Fellowship Grant Writing Series on March 3rd!
Interested in increasing the quality of your NIH Fellowship grant submission? You are invited to attend the NIH Fellowship Grant Writing Series, brought to you by the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies and the Rutgers Office of Postdoctoral Advancement in...
Resilience to HIV-Related Stigma May Be Key to Ending the AIDS Epidemic.
Failing to address the psychological trauma experienced by many older people living with HIV/AIDS will make it difficult, if not impossible, to end the epidemic, according to a Rutgers study. Once considered a death sentence, HIV/AIDS has evolved into a manageable...
Ozempic, Wegovy and the Evolving Weight-Loss Drug Market.
Ozempic, a diabetes drug, and its weight-loss counterpart, Wegovy, have been making a splash in headlines, the medical community and pop culture as the newest way to lose weight. Because of society's complicated, and often dangerous, relationship with diet pills, some...
Rutgers Specialists Show Facial Pain Can Be Unconnected to Teeth.
What’s the proper treatment for constant, inexplicable pain in the face, jaw or head that defies conventional dental treatment? According to researchers from the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, the answer varies widely from patient to patient. For one patient in a...