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Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium
The first Community Engaged Scholarship Symposium took place on June 14th in the President's Tent in New Brunswick and it was a huge success! The primary goal of the symposium was to showcase cutting-edge scholarship focused on addressing health equity and to provide a forum to network across disciplines and campuses at Rutgers University. The diverse and dynamic group of speakers and panelists provided in-depth insight, as well as, actionable and practical tools of engagement models, methods, and mechanisms that have worked in various settings.
The four Rutgers Chancellor Units and the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science would like to thank the students, faculty, staff, speakers, and community members that made this event successful. There were 120 attendees, 13 speakers, and 55 poster abstract submissions. Together, we can further our impact and scholarship in service to the common good with collaborative academic-community research partnerships.
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Comparing Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease in the U.S. and Africa
Compared to most other groups in the U.S., African Americans are up to three times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. The numbers are lower in Africa but rising. Rutgers-Newark researchers are examining the reasons through an NIH-funded study.
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Call for Requests:
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. To see a CEVS in action, take a look at the summary video featured below.
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Does Diversity Matter for Health?
June 23, 12pm ET
The Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research invites you to this seminar presented by Marcella Alsan, a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School (John F. Kennedy School of Government). She is an applied microeconomist studying health inequality.
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Community Health Fair - Trenton, NJ
June 26, 10am ET
Rutgers Global Health Institute is collaborating with partner organizations to hold a health fair on Sunday, June 26, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Trenton, New Jersey. The health fair will offer free access to health education and resources, blood pressure screenings, appointments for cancer screenings, and a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for all ages and eligible doses. Other community resources also will be available, such as help with Motor Vehicle Commission appointments and Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) applications.
Latino Merchants Association, 375 Morris Ave., Trenton, NJ
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Co-creation, Leadership, Management, and Implementation of the New Jersey Health Initiatives Program
The New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) has been driving collaboration and supporting programs to build healthier communities through grantmaking across the state since 1987. NJHI’s mission mirrors that of the Foundation and encourages collaboration across sectors in our state’s communities to foster deep relationships and build a Culture of Health in New Jersey. With recent strategy shifts and a new approach to working in our home state, RWJF seeks an organization (or collaborative of organizations with one serving as the lead) to collaborate in co-designing and implementing the NJHI program of the future. The organization will receive a planning grant of up to $450,000 for up to an 18-month period to work with RWJF, partners, and stakeholders in New Jersey to co-create NJHI’s path forward related to programmatic strategies and approaches and functional and operational structures.
The application deadline is July 13, 2022.
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This Journey to Wellness Guide will help you find new ideas to use to begin or continue on your personal journey, no matter where you are in your life. If you have ever experienced chronic stress, addiction, trauma, or another life challenge, you will find examples here that have helped many to pursue and continue a journey to wellness. Download the full Guide, Pocket Version and Tips Sheets for Using Yourself, With Others or With Groups.
New Jersey COVID-19 Information Hub: The State of New Jersey has put together a list of resources about the COVID-19 virus including testing sites, signs and symptoms, and FAQs about social services.
You can find community-based and local COVID-19 testing site locations and hours here.
Middlesex County residents can register for a free COVID-19 test at sites throughout the county. Appointments required. The sites provide saliva-based test kits developed at Rutgers University.
Visit New Jersey’s COVID-19 Vaccine Registration site to pre-register for the vaccine. New Jersey's Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment Call Center can be reached at 855-568-0545.
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New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science
This newsletter is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number, UL1TR003017 to Rutgers University. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the NIH.
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