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Gov. Murphy, please require COVID jabs for kids and suspend teachers who won’t get the vaccine.
The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted incalculable harm on New Jersey’s public school students. But these harms do not have to continue. We now have the tools to keep students in school, where they desperately need to be. And yet, school closures and quarantines...
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...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Hudson and Jimenez's article in Academic Pediatrics titled, "Enhancing Reach Out and Read With a Video and Text Messages: A Randomized Trial in a Low-Income Predominantly Latino Sample." Low-income Latino children face persistent inequities in school...
Nurse2Nurse, help line for nurses under stress from COVID pandemic, launches in NJ.
No one understands the stress a nurse faces on the job better than another nurse. And nothing has caused more stress for nurses than the COVID pandemic, as front-line caregivers guard against exposure to the coronavirus, witness patient deaths and worry about family...
University of Colorado CTSA Creates Stakeholder Engagement Navigator
The online toolkit helps healthcare researchers identify and select methods of engagement based on the constraints and/or criteria of their studies and their identified stakeholders to promote equity in research. Read more and Watch YouTube Video
Barbers are enlisted to tout the benefits of being vaccinated against COVID.
Rutgers University-Camden and a local nonprofit recruited 15 barbers to help answer client questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. Other barbers and hair salons are working on a similar initiative. Public health officials in Philadelphia want people to go to barbershops...
Mix or match: What do I need to know about vaccine boosters?
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have now authorized COVID-19 boosters for people who received the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. (The agencies authorized the Pfizer booster about a month earlier.) That...
People are flocking to get tested for COVID. Don’t panic — it’s not what you think.
New Jersey residents are flocking to get tested for COVID-19. Testing in the state recently hit its highest levels since the spring, and residents in some counties are struggling to find appointments, especially on weekends. New Jersey conducted an average of 41,700...