NEWS
Dr. Johnson featured on NJ Spotlight news: Why is vaccine equity still lagging among NJ’s Black and brown residents?
State health officials are taking the pharmaceutical company at its word that a 100-million dose goal will be met by the summer. But racial gaps persist in the effort to vaccinate more Black and Brown residents. The needle hasn’t moved much, with just 15% of all...
NJ ACTS TL1 Fellowship – Applications Available
The NJ ACTS TL1 Fellowship program equips its Fellows with enhanced knowledge, skills, and abilities that provide a broad introduction to clinical and translational research concurrent with their current pre- or postdoctoral research program.The goal of the fellowship...
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core for a Special Webinar, April 16th at 12pm
NJ ACTS Special Populations 2021 Webinar Series presents Assistant Professor Qiana L. Brown, PhD, MPH, LCSW speaking about "Use and Perceived Risk of Use Among Pregnant Women in the U.S." Prenatal cannabis use has increased over the past decade, despite potential...
Bariatric Surgery Significantly Reduces Obesity-Related Cancer Risk, Rutgers Study Finds
Bariatric surgery can significantly reduce the risk of cancer—particularly obesity-related cancers like pancreatic, colorectal, endometrial and thyroid—by as much as half in certain individuals, according to a study by researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson...
Life Expectancy: Could where you live influence how long you live? Interactive Map
People living just a few blocks apart may have vastly different opportunities to live a long life in part because of their neighborhood. Unfortunately, significant gaps in life expectancy persist across many United States cities, towns, ZIP codes and neighborhoods....
Team Science Inaugural Seminar Series Event with Patrick Hobbs
Patrick Hobbs, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics for Rutgers will speak on the topic “Secrets of Successful Teamwork: What Can Academia Learn from Non-Academia?” Monday, April 19, 2021 2:30 – 3:30 PM Register in advance for this zoom meeting:...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Gaur's article in the Journal of Pediatric Neurology titled, "Bell's Palsy Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a 2-Year-Old Child". Bell's palsy (BP) is the broadly used term for idiopathic facial nerve palsy (FNP). In children, idiopathic BP is...
The Cost of Caring
Rutgers expert explains how health care workers can be affected by empathy and compassion. Compassion fatigue is just one of many consequences of working through the pandemic as a health care worker, according to Shari Munch, an associate professor at Rutgers School...