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NJ HEROES TOO has been celebrated!
THANK YOU to all the partners that contributed to a successful celebration event.
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Below is a peer-reviewed paper that reflects what we have learned from the NJ HEROES TOO project:
Experiences of Black and Latinx health care workers in support roles during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study. Black and Latinx individuals, and in particular women, comprise an essential health care workforce often serving in support roles such as nursing assistants and dietary service staff. Compared to physicians and nurses, they are underpaid and potentially undervalued, yet play a critical role in health systems. This study examined the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic from the perspective of Black and Latinx health care workers in support roles. To learn more, click here.
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Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium:
Best Practices to Achieve Health Equity
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The first Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium highlighted cutting-edge scholarship focused on addressing health equity and was a forum for networking across disciplines and campuses at Rutgers University.
Thank you to the students, faculty, staff, speakers, and community members who made this event successful.
Together, we can further our impact and scholarship in service to the common good with collaborative academic-community research partnerships.
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We look forward to featuring our six student award winners in upcoming editions of our newsletter:
Fauzan Amjad
Rosamaria Dias, Victoria Ribeiro, Ashley Castan
Michael Enich
Labeeqa Khizir
Kelsey Thompson
Usman Toor
To learn more about the event, please visit one of the links below:
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One-on-One Consultations
The CEC helps researchers obtain project-specific input from research, healthcare, community, and patient stakeholders to enhance research design, implementation, and dissemination.
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Community Engagement Virtual Salons (CEVS)
CEVS bring researchers together with patients, community members, and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk. It provides a forum for generating research questions, identifying evidence gaps, and defining outcomes meaningful to patients.
If you're interested in working with us, click here to learn more.
To see a CEVS in action, click on the summary videos featured below.
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New Jersey Family Leave Insurance
Featuring Debra Lancaster, Rebecca Logue-Conroy, and Ludine Daux from Center for Women and Work.
May 6, 2022
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If your research has benefited from one or more NJ ACTS resources, please remember to:
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Cite our CTSA grant, UL1TR003017, KL2TR003018, or TL1TR003019 in any relevant publications, abstracts, chapters, and/or posters.
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Submit your publications to PubMed Central (PMC) for compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy.
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Share your research updates with us by sending an email to: njactscommunity@rwjms.rutgers.edu
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PRINCETON - Our COVID-19 Vaccines would not Exist without this Unsung Princeton Technology
It might not look like much — a plastic box that fits in the hand, with tiny tubes jutting out the top and bottom. Too simple to be cutting edge. Too humble to save so many lives. But for 20 years, researchers in Robert Prud’homme’s lab have fine-tuned this little box that has revolutionized drug manufacturing, enabling everything from mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines to malaria drugs. To read the full story, click here.
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NJIT - Led Team Revitalizes Teeth Through Tissue Regeneration
Each year, dentists in the United States perform more than 15 million root canals on infected teeth, removing the inflamed pulp and filling the emptied canal with inert materials such as rubber and cement. What remains is a mineral shell in place of a living tooth. “Teeth lacking dental pulp are more vulnerable to cracking and can respond poorly to future bacterial infections and mechanical injuries. In particular, we’d prefer to avoid killing and removing a child’s permanent tooth that is still growing, but instead, help the roots thicken and lengthen,” said Vivek Kumar, a bioengineer at NJIT.
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RUTGERS - How Rutgers became a national model for COVID-19 response
It took less than three weeks from the time the first case of coronavirus emerged in the United States for Rutgers University leaders to prepare its response to what would be one of the worst crises in world history. And it took just another two weeks for it to put together 14 emergency response teams of more than 200 individuals to ensure its campuses and health facilities would be protected. Every institution in the U.S. has its own incredible story to share, but the sheer size and scope of the Rutgers response to COVID-19 over the past two years has been one of the great success stories of higher education. To learn more, click here.
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NJ ACTS 2021 Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot Grant Program Awardees
The purpose of the Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot (PIAP) Program is to facilitate collaborations between academic researchers and community organizations so they can work together on health research that benefits the community.
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Awarded Investigator: Qiana Brown, PhD, MPH, LCSW
Dr. Qiana L. Brown is an assistant professor at the Rutgers University School of Social Work, where she directs the Substance Use Research, Evaluation, and Maternal and Child Health (SURE MatCH) Group at the School of Social Work’s Center for Prevention Science. Dr. Brown is an epidemiologist, translational scientist and advanced generalist licensed certified social worker. From a health equity lens, her research focuses on system-level change to improve maternal and child health, centering on preventing prenatal substance use and examining the role of the built and social environments and health and social policy in shaping substance use and other health outcomes among women, youth and families. Dr. Brown’s peer-reviewed research has been published in top-tier international public health and medical journals, including JAMA. She is an associate editor for the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research and an editorial board member at several other international, peer-reviewed journals. Before joining Rutgers, Dr. Brown earned her PhD in mental health and drug dependence epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in substance abuse epidemiology at Columbia University. She also founded and directed a non-profit, community-based substance use disorder treatment center, Jane's House of Inspiration. Dr. Brown was also a recipient of a New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science KL2 award.
Awarded Project: The COP Study: Communities and Officers Working Together to Prevent Opioid Use Disorder
The Rutgers School of Social Work, School of Engineering and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) are partnering to build an innovative, community-academic-police partnership (CAPP) to guide the development and implementation of the NJSP-led wastewater-based epidemiology opioid use surveillance pilot program in Camden County, New Jersey. From the base of this core partnership, a more extensive CAPP will be developed. Community members, community- and faith-based organizations, researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners, engineers, and police officers will be invited to join the CAPP. This study and the central role of the CAPP has been detailed in the Community Engagement edition of Partnering for Change. To learn more click here.
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The situation around the current spread of COVID-19 is changing rapidly. We have compiled resource links for the general community highlighting local resources across New Jersey, ways to get involved, and mental and physical wellness. Visit our COVID-19 page for resources for individuals and community partners.
Check out our YouTube channel and blog to stay up to date with COVID-19 related news across the consortium.
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The BA.5 variant is spreading, and your COVID immunity might be gone because of it.
It’s the most infectious strain yet, coming even as many people have written off the pandemic. BA.5, now the dominant coronavirus subvariant in New Jersey and the U.S., has shown resistance to COVID-19 vaccines, making experts nervous. Worse, prior immunity doesn’t seem to be the shield it once was as protection from recent infection appears to offer reduced or even no armor against the strain. To learn more, click here.
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‘We can’t keep mandating,’ Persichilli says as omicron BA.5 sweeps NJ.
There is a new coronavirus variant sweeping New Jersey, but the advice from the state’s top health official remains the same: Get vaccinated and boosted, wear a high-quality mask when indoors or in crowds outside, wash your hands and stay home when feeling sick. To learn more, click here.
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Omicron subvariants drive COVID-19 cases in NJ nursing homes.
Industry experts warn that COVID-19 is surging in New Jersey’s long-term care centers driven by BA.4 and BA.5, the highly contagious omicron subvariants. With case numbers climbing among residents and staff, state health officials discussed a renewed effort to stem the spread of COVID-19 among a vulnerable population. To learn more, click here.
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The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science compiled resources for translating COVID-19 from bench to bedside. Visit the site.
To learn more about funding opportunities and innovation challenges to assist the academic research community in mitigating COVID-19, click here.
RBHS is actively engaged in scientific discovery surrounding COVID-19. To learn more about the RBHS COVID-19 clinical trials, click here.
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We would like to share your resources with the community. Please email your information to njactscommunity@rjwms.rutgers.edu to contribute to our next Quarterly Newsletter issue.
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In Case you Missed It:
Monkeypox: A Conversation with Scientists, Clinicians, & Community Leaders
Rutgers School of Public Health hosts leading public health scientists, clinicians, and community leaders as they share critical information on the current monkeypox outbreak in the US and how to keep yourself safe. Watch it here.
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Continuing Education Opportunities |
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Free NIH Seminars for Clinical Researchers
Sex and Gender in Research
Interest in sex and gender in research—and resources to help investigators—is growing. In the 5 years since NIH enacted its pioneering Policy on Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) there has been a lot of activity, including increased attention on sex differences and influences and many questions and requests for assistance.
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We would like to share your events with the community. Please email your event details to njactscommunity@rjwms.rutgers.edu to contribute to our next Quarterly Newsletter issue.
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New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science
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