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Coronavirus Infection Odds Twice as High Among Black, Latinx Hospital Workers
Support staff and Black and Latinx hospital employees with and without patient care responsibilities are at highest risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection in health care settings, a Rutgers study found. After screening 3,904 employees and clinicians at a New Jersey hospital...
Rutgers Is Study Site for Monitoring and Predicting Kidney Risk in COVID-19 Patients
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School will be a clinical test site for a study assessing the long term risk of chronic kidney disease in patients who recover from COVID-19. The Multi-Center Assessment of Survivors for Kidney Disease after COVID-19 (MASKeD-COVID) study –...
2020 election could deliver the biggest gender gap in American history. What’s driving it?
Randi Sigafoos did not want to leave her kids home alone, but she didn’t know what else to do. "It's been very challenging. I had to come back to work, so I kind of don’t have a choice. And my husband works, so it’s been hard," said Sigafoos, 50, who works at a...
Pandemic’s Impact on Voting Rights and Election
The 2020 presidential election is one of the most anticipated in recent history with COVID-19, racial justice and the economy at the forefront and registered voters making their voices heard either with mail-in ballots or by standing in line to cast their ballot at...
Rutgers Awarded $3M NSF Grant to Develop Robots of the Future
A $3 million National Science Foundation grant will help Rutgers train graduate students to develop robots for the future that integrate technology, computer science and machine learning with social and behavioral sciences like psychology, cognitive science and urban...
NJACTS Community Engagement Core COVID-19 Resources
The situation around the current spread of COVID-19 is changing rapidly. We have compiled resource links for the general community highlighting local resources across New Jersey, ways to get involved, and mental and physical wellness. Visit our COVID-19 page for...
In New Jersey’s most segregated county, racism and coronavirus made a ‘vicious circle’
Angenetta Robinson shut her door, sat at the edge of her queen bed and stuck the thermometer under her tongue. It climbed to 99. Two hours later, it read 101, then 103. She last remembers 105. “I wasn't checking anymore because I was in La-la Land,’’ Robinson...
NJ ACTS Announces the 2020 Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot Grant Program Awardees
The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) Community Engagement Core is excited to announce the selection of 2 Partnership and Innovation Accelerator Pilot Grant Program (PIAP) and 3 Advancing Health Equity and Social Justice (AHESJ)...