July 6, 2022

UV Safety Month

July is known as Ultraviolet Safety Month. During this time, the mission is to spread awareness about how important it is to protect our eyes and skin from the side effects of UV rays.

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Community Engagement Virtual Salons (CEVS)

CEVS bring researchers together with patients, community members, and health care stakeholders to actively participate in cross-talk. It provides a forum for generating research questions, identifying evidence gaps, and defining outcomes meaningful to patients. To see a CEVS in action, take a look at the summary video featured below.

If you're interested in working with us, click here to learn more.

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Funding Opportunities

Co-creation, Leadership, Management, and Implementation of the New Jersey Health Initiatives Program

The New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) has been driving collaboration and supporting programs to build healthier communities through grantmaking across the state since 1987. NJHI’s mission mirrors that of the Foundation and encourages collaboration across sectors in our state’s communities to foster deep relationships and build a Culture of Health in New Jersey. With recent strategy shifts and a new approach to working in our home state, RWJF seeks an organization (or collaborative of organizations with one serving as the lead) to collaborate in co-designing and implementing the NJHI program of the future. The organization will receive a planning grant of up to $450,000 for up to an 18-month period to work with RWJF, partners, and stakeholders in New Jersey to co-create NJHI’s path forward related to programmatic strategies and approaches and functional and operational structures.

The application deadline is July 13, 2022.

Learn more here.

Community Resources

New Jersey COVID-19 Information Hub: The State of New Jersey has put together a list of resources about the COVID-19 virus including testing sites, signs and symptoms, and FAQs about social services.

You can find community-based and local COVID-19 testing site locations and hours here.

Middlesex County residents can register for a free COVID-19 test at sites throughout the county. Appointments required. The sites provide saliva-based test kits developed at Rutgers University.

Visit New Jersey’s COVID-19 Vaccine Registration site to pre-register for the vaccine. New Jersey's Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment Call Center can be reached at 855-568-0545.

New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science

https://njacts.rbhs.rutgers.edu/community/

This newsletter is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number, UL1TR003017 to Rutgers University. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the NIH.

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