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NHLBI Catalyze Program Webinar
Learn how to leverage the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s new translational grant funding programs to accelerate the development of your preclinical heart, lung, blood or sleep technology on January 26, 2021, 3:00 pm. Projects supported by NHLBI Catalyze...
Members of Congress face backlash as they get priority for scarce vaccine
Rutgers Global Health Institute director Richard Marlink is among the “experts, pundits, and social media users” interviewed for a national story about U.S. Congress members being among the first to receive coronavirus vaccines. In the following excerpt, he discusses...
Global vaccine equity: Calls rise to put principle into practice.
When Gambia received its first shipment of 36,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine in March through the global initiative COVAX, the mood at the West African country’s Health Ministry was upbeat. “We gave people their first doses, and told them the date to come back for the...
COVID19 and The Vaccine Webinar for Communities of Color
Hear from the experts about the COVID-19 Vaccine on January 24th, 2021, 7:00 pm. Speakers: Pierre Vigilance, MD, MPH, Assoc. Dean for Practice at the George Washington University School of Public Health Karma B. Warren, MD, FAAEM, President of the Essex County (NJ)...
Lessons of COVID-19 research pivot in 2020 could improve medical studies
The COVID-19 pandemic has had both a positive and negative impact on medical research in 2020, delaying some trials while streamlining the process for others, according to experts. The complexities of the pandemic, and quick shift in research focus toward better...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Halkitis' article in Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology titled, "Assessment of spatial mobility among young men who have sex with men within and across high HIV prevalence neighborhoods in New York city: The P18 neighborhood study". The purpose...
China Has A Theory About Its New COVID-19 Cases. Many Scientists Are Skeptical
China now reports few to none domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases — only 12 cases were reported on Dec. 15. But a flurry of recent cases has Chinese public health officials worried. They claim that the cases stemmed from workers who had contact with imported food...
Researcher Developing a Tool to Gauge How Mobility Spreads a Pandemic
Camden mathematics professor Benedetto Piccoli is among a team of multidisciplinary researchers from three universities working to create a tool to help mayors and governors assess the impacts of different social distancing levels and travel restrictions. By showing...