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Register for the 27th Annual Public Health Symposium on Monday 4/4/22
Takin' It to the Street Authentic Communication for Strengthening Trust in Public Health From billboards to television to social media, communication tools are essential to public health efforts to help people live longer, healthier lives. These same platforms also...
Join NJ ACTS Team Science on 3/30 at 4pm for Secrets of Successful Collaboration: Ensuring IT Security and Preventing Hacking
Join the NJ ACTS Team Science Core for "Ensuring IT Security and Preventing Hacking", presented by Adam Bixby from AON. Mr. Bixby leads a team that fights hackers by performed network penetration testing, security code review and security testing. A leader in this...
COLUMN: Court-Issued Fines And Fees Frequently Undermine Health Equity
The Camden Medical-Legal Partnership is a collaboration of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers and Rutgers Law School. It offers innovative, holistic, and community-based legal services to Camden residents with complex health needs. This column highlights how...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Hudson's article in Translational Behavioral Medicine titled, "Cancer prevention, risk reduction, and control: opportunities for the next decade of health care delivery research." Cancer care delivery research is “the multi-disciplinary field of...
Botswana Cancer Initiative Leader Discusses Parallels with AIDS and Progress on Oncology Workforce Training.
In the late 1990s, HIV/AIDS devastated the sub-Saharan African nation of Botswana, infecting 25 percent of the population. Through a massive collaboration involving the country’s leaders, eminent local and international scientists, and determined partners spanning...
OPINION: New Jersey needs a public health institute
The authors outline that establishing a public health institute in New Jersey would be a key part of a reimagined state and local public health system. Read the Full Article.
An app based on Princeton research uses a smartwatch to predict if someone has COVID
This new breed of diagnostic tool stems from research led by Niraj Jha, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University. His team is developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology for COVID-19 detection, as well as diagnosis and...
For kids with COVID-19, everyday life can be a struggle
Among the puzzling outcomes of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 6 million people worldwide since it first emerged in 2019, are the symptoms suffered by children. Read the Full Article.