NJ ACTS Badge - Registration Now Open!

Do You Want Additional Professional Credentials?

Take Advantage of the NJ ACTS Badge Program

NJ ACTS enthusiastically supports the development of new skills and expertise by developing and offering the research workforce a variety of digital badges. Badges can demonstrate mastery of materials and compentence in a set of skills and can help prepare the earner for new career opportunities. All NJ ACTS Badges are available at: https://www.credly.com/organizations/rutgers/collections/rutgers-university-information-technology/badge_templates.

Our newest offering is the Clinical Research Coordination Level-1 Badge. This 6-week academic badge is especially designed for Clinical Research Professionals, novice Investigators, and students with little to no clinical research or pharmaceutical experience who would like a role as a “study coordinator” in clinical research at Rutgers or another an Academic Medical Center (AMC).

Full information on the badge, and the 5 modules that it covers is available at: https://njacts.rbhs.rutgers.edu/education-training/workforce-development/crc-badge/.

There is no cost for Rutgers, Princeton, NJIT or RWJBH faculty, staff or students.

Register Here

Deadline December 19, 2022

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Translational Research Needs Assessment Survey

LAST CALL TO TELL US WHAT HINDERS YOUR RESEARCH!!

ADD YOUR VOICE TO THE NJ ACTS BARRIERS TO RESEARCH SURVEY

The NJ ACTS team wants to know what barriers you commonly encounter while conducting translational research and at what stage in the process. We need to know the issues so we can work with you to address them.

This survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. Upon completion, participants can enter a raffle for a $25 Starbucks gift card.

Translational Research Needs Assessment Survey



Upcoming NJ ACTS, Rutgers, Princeton and NJIT Events

NJ ACTS Workforce Development Core

Internship Final Symposium

Featured Presentation Topics:

Regulatory Science

Special Populations

Community Engagement

Team Science

Clinical & Translational Research

Training Clinical and Translational Scientists

Informatics and Metrics

Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design

Thursday, December 1, 2022

5 pm - 7 pm

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New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJIT) Invites You to:

2022 Healthcare Innovation Virtual Summit

Digital Health and Connectedness

Centered around the themes of digital health and the innovative integration of digital technologies into clinical practice. The Summit will contain talks from prominent leaders in health technology and include innovative workshops for improving digital acumen. 

December 3, 2022

9 am - 4 pm

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NJ ACTS Special Populations

Seminar Series

mHealth Psychotherapy Studies with Older Adults 

Elissa Kozlov, PhD 

Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy

Rutgers School of Public Health

Dr. Kozlov will present on her work recruiting older adults to mHealth psychotherapy studies and discuss the challenges and barriers to conducting research with this special population along with helpful recruitment tips and tricks.

December 6, 2022

12 pm - 1 pm

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NJ ACTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design (BERD)

Workshop Series

Strategies for Engaging Communities in Research

Kristen Krause, Ph.D., MPH

Rutgers Global Health Institute

This workshop is designed for anyone who is interested in learning about engaging different communities in all stages of research including recruitment and dissemination of findings.

The presentation will highlight strategies our team used in the past for in-person and online recruitment, including IRB approved recruitment materials/scripts, along with different ways we have worked to disseminate findings from different studies.

December 8, 2022

2 pm

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Rutgers Faculty Diversity Initiative

DEIA ‘Get Recognized’ Workshop

Presented by

Dr. Fatimah Williams

Beyond the Tenure Track

Open to all Rutgers faculty and postdocs to help them advance their academic identity, promote their work, and envision the next steps in their career trajectory. 

December 9, 2022

10 am - 12 pm

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NJ ACTS in the News

NJ ACTS Community Engagement Core

New Jersey Healthcare Essential Worker Outreach and Education Study

Testing Overlooked Occupations - (NJ HEROES TOO)

Community-based groups can be more effective than health-care organizations at expanding access to at-home COVID-19 testing in underserved communities, according to a Rutgers study published in the American Journal of Public Health.

Funded by a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, NJ HEROES TOO was created to expand access to COVID-19 testing in New Jersey counties with high poverty rates and disproportionate disease burdens.

As part of the NJ HEROES TOO project, the NJ HEROES TOO team conducted a study to evaluate alternative approaches to promoting at-home testing. Read the Full Article.

NJ ACTS Global Outreach in Botswana

Cancer Care in-Botswana

The Oncology Network Interview with Dr. Peter Vuylsteke

NJ ACTS Global Outreach Facilitator in Botswana

Have you wondered what it is like to practice medical oncology in Botswana?

Professor Hans Prenen and Dr. Laure-Anne Teuwen interview Dr. Peter Vuylsteke from the University of Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Dr. Vuylsteke left his medical oncology practice in Belgium to experience medicine in a completely different environment.

Listen to the Podcast

Read More about Global Outreach and the Botswana-Rutgers Partnership for Health

NJ ACTS Services

NJ ACTS Informatics Services integrates, enhances, and expands data from disparate clinical and research sources for researchers as well as augments analytics capabilities and training across the research enterprise.

Available Services

• Patient Population Data
• Biomedical Informatics Services
• High Performance Computing
• Public Health Databases

Informatics Toolkit - The NJ ACTS Workforce Development and Informatics Cores have assembled a series of trainings for the NJ ACTS workforce. These trainings span a variety of computing and informatics aspects.

Check out the NJ ACTS Toolbox for More Topics and Tips

CTSA News and Events

National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS)

National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Updates:

• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data is now available in the N3C Enclave 

• N3C Public Health Answers to Speed Tractable Results (PHASTR) is a public health initiative designed to address high impact questions that are not being investigated by the research community in order to provide fast, actionable analyses of high impact, public health research questions. Engage the community capable of working with N3C “big data” to answer public health-related research questions of interest. 

NEW NCATS DEIA Publications

Two recent NCATS-authored publications that may be of interest, especially to those engaged in or interested in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

• Demographic Composition of National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program Principal Investigators, Scholars, and Trainees

• DEIA is Essential to Advance the Goals of Translational Science: Perspectives from NCATS

Center for Leading Innovation & Collaboration (CLIC)

Medications for opioid use disorder in state prisons: Perspectives of formerly incarcerated persons. Treitler PC, Enich M, Reeves D, Crystal S. Subst Abuse. 2022 Apr 14;43(1):964-971. DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2022.2060448. PMID: 35420973.

The NJ Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) experience: Responding at “warp speed” to COVID-19. Thaman P, Tafuto B, Gélinas C, Gaur S, Neubauer JA. J Clin Transl Sci. 2022 Apr 4;6(1):e62. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35720969. PMCID:PMC9161045. DOI:10.1017/cts.2022.383.

NJ ACTS Community Engagement Virtual Salons (CEVS) - CEVS bring researchers together with patients, community members, and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk. If you're interested in working with the Community Engagement Core, click here to learn more.

Team Science Across the NJ ACTS Consortium Virtual Seminar Series - Fragile Families Third Generation (FFG3): An Intergenerational U.S. Birth Cohort Study - Watch on YouTube

The Princeton Pulse Podcast - A new podcast exploring the power and possibilities of evidence-informed health policy hosted by Heather Howard, professor of the practice and former New Jersey Commissioner of Health and Senior Services. Available on the CHW website, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast platforms.

Translational Science 2023 - is looking for new ways to innovate translational science for research. Submissions are now open for poster and scientific session proposals! 

Propelus I-Corps Program - Rolling applications for a 4-week program for researchers to explore the commercial potential for their innovations through Customer Discovery. Accepted teams are awarded a $3,000 NSF grant which makes them eligible to get follow-on NSF funding. https://icorpsnortheasthub.org/

Build a Successful Collaboration with NJ ACTS Team Science - The Team Science Core offers general and project-specific consultations on building and maintaining successful research teams and collaborations. To set up a consultation, please fill out the intake form. Read more about the Team Science Core.