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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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Hispanic and Latino Young Males With Higher Education, Greater Acculturation Are More Likely to Use E-Cigarettes.
Hispanic and Latino young men with higher levels of education who were born in the United States and speak mostly English at home are more likely to use e-cigarettes, according to a Rutgers researcher. In a study, published in American Journal of Medicine Open,...
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Diversity, equity and inclusion report highlights many ways Princeton is working toward enriching teaching, research and community.
The University has released its second annual diversity, equity and inclusion report, which highlights how Princeton is working to be even more diverse, inclusive and accessible in ways that enrich the quality of teaching and research and improve campus climate. The...
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N.J. supports expanding Medicare to all U.S. residents, poll shows.
A wide majority of New Jerseyans are at least somewhat in favor of expanding Medicare to provide basic health care coverage to every U.S. resident, not just seniors, a new poll shows. The Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Tuesday found 71% of Garden State adults support...
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New DNA Analysis Provides First Accurate Tuberculosis Genome.
Researchers have developed a novel genome assembly tool that could spur the development of new treatments for tuberculosis and other bacterial infections. The new tool, which has created an improved genome map of one tuberculosis strain, should do likewise for other...
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Rutgers Seeks Participants to Research Long COVID in Children and Young Adults.
Rutgers will take the lead in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study seeking to define long COVID – a term used to describe lingering COVID-19 symptoms – in children, including its evolution and how often it occurs. The university is recruiting 150 participants...
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Strong Connection to Neighbors May Improve Health Outcomes.
Strong neighborhood connections reduced the negative impact of living alone on the death rates of older Chinese Americans, according to Rutgers researchers. The study, published in Social Science & Medicine, examined if neighborhood cohesion among Chinese...