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Rutgers Helps Build Resilience in Communities Hard-Hit by COVID-19.
Rutgers Global Health Institute is helping underserved communities in Essex, Mercer, and Middlesex counties hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic offer residents accessible vaccination and testing. The effort, funded by a New Jersey Department of Health grant, is breaking...
Federal funds for uninsured COVID patients dry up as hospital costs rise
For the first time, the U.S. came close to providing health care for all during the coronavirus pandemic — but for just one condition, COVID-19. Now, things are reverting to the way they were as federal money for COVID care of the uninsured dries up, creating a...
What will COVID look like this summer in NJ? Here’s what the latest models show.
On the cusp of last summer, as COVID vaccination rates were on the upswing and transmission rates were dropping, New Jersey officials talked excitedly about a return to normalcy, with offices filling with employees again and masks no longer required in schools. Then...
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core 2022 Seminar Series: June 14, 2022
Using technology to engage Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer survivors in health interventions Presented By: Katie Devine, PhD, MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics Chief Section of Pediatric Population Science, Outcomes, and Disparities Research Division of...
NJ ACTS Pilot Program Application Deadline June 17, 2022
NJ ACTS Pilot Program Deadline–Application Deadline: June 17, 2022 (midnight) via REDCap link: https://redcap.rwjms.rutgers.edu/surveys/?s=LJYKKM3J9A or https://redcap.link/nc0eena5 Read More about the NJ ACTS Pilots Program One of the major objectives of NJ ACTS is...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core Available Services
Virtual Community Engagement Salon The NJ ACTS CEC Virtual Community Engagement Salons bring researchers together with patients, community members and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk — to incubate ideas for engagement in the...
Children Without Diapers Sleep Poorly.
Children whose parents cannot afford diapers do not get quality sleep, according to a study by the Rutgers School of Nursing. The study, published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, is the first to examine the relationship between diaper need...
Rutgers-Based Protein Data Bank Expands Its Digital Storage With Help of Amazon Web Services.
The RCSB Protein Data Bank, headquartered at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, which has transformed biology and medicine by impacting research, education and drug discovery worldwide, has a lot more digital data storage space thanks to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The...