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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...
Public health seeks steady funding, not feast or famine
Public health officials, used to juggling bare-bones budgets, worry the money will dry up as the pandemic recedes, continuing a boom-bust funding cycle that has plagued the U.S. public health system for decades. They fear they’ll be back to scraping together money...
Has the Era of Overzealous Cleaning Finally Come to an End?
When the coronavirus began to spread in the United States last spring, many experts warned of the danger posed by surfaces. Researchers reported that the virus could survive for days on plastic or stainless steel, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
A New Campaign By Black Health Care Workers for Black People about the COVID-19 Vaccines
THE CONVERSATION: Between Us, About Us kicked off with an open and honest conversation between W. Kamau Bell and Black doctors, nurses and researchers that gets to the heart of Black people’s questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Read the Full Article.
Single Payer Health Care is Having its Moment, One Vaccine at a Time
The COVID-19 vaccination program is giving many Americans their first glimpse of an alternative to our current health care system. The horror stories we've grown used to—uninsured and underinsured Americans dying because they cannot afford life-sustaining...
New Research Unmasks Impact of COVID on New Jersey Municipalities
A new report issued by the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at Rutgers University–Camden unmasks the broad, regional impact of COVID-19 upon New Jersey municipalities during two waves in 2020. The report, “Municipal Variations in COVID-19 Case Rates in...
NJ ACTS Biostatistics and Epidemiology Workshop on May 6th at 2:30pm
Join NJ ACTS Biostatistics and Epidemiology Workshop Series for An Introduction to the analysis of RNA sequencing data at multiple scales Presented by: Vivian Li, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology When: ...
COVID-19 ‘breakthrough cases’ are ‘extremely unlikely,’ experts say
More than 100 people in Washington state have contracted COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated against the virus, according to officials from the Washington State Department of Health. Known as "breakthrough cases," these illnesses are expected with any type of...