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Community Engaged Scholarship (CES) Symposium: Best Practices to Achieve Health Equity

Date & Time

Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Category

Symposium

Information

Organized by the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical Translational Science (NJ ACTS) and Rutgers University Partners: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, Rutgers–Newark, and Rutgers–Camden 

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Overview

This Rutgers University-wide forum, will showcase cutting-edge scholarship across Rutgers and beyond. Abstracts for posters and a limited number of oral presentations from faculty, students, and trainees will be solicited. Top-rated, trainee and/or student-led abstracts that are selected by the CES Symposium abstract review committee will receive special recognition at the program and monetary awards.

  • Symposium Registration closes: May 18, 2022
  • Abstract Submission closes: May 18, 2022 

Review the Abstract Submissions Guidelines before submitting an abstract.

This event is an opportunity to showcase a broad range of scholarly projects. Projects can be in process or recently completed. Projects should have a health equity focus. Topics can include but are not limited to work that includes research-practice partnerships, community-based or engaged approaches, and/or extension models. A broad range of study designs are also encouraged ranging from observational to intervention-focused scholarship.

Keynote Speakers 

Headshot of Tiffany Manuel

Tiffany Manuel, PhD
President & CEO
TheCaseMade
Dr. Tiffany Manuel is the President and CEO of TheCaseMade, an organization dedicated to helping leaders powerfully and intentionally make the case for systems change. In this role, Dr. Manuel works with hundreds of passionate social change leaders, changemakers and innovators around the US who are building better, stronger communities that are diverse, equitable and inclusive. She is the primary architect of the Opportunity360 platform, with more than 100k+ users in the community development field, it remains the most comprehensive data platform for practitioners looking to advance systems change and population outcomes. Trained as a social scientist, she is a dynamic speaker, thought leader, and writer on the issues of community development, social change and cross-sector partnerships.

Headshot Matthew Kreuter

Matthew Kreuter, PhD, MPH
Kahn Family Professor and Associate Dean for Public Health
Brown School of Washington University
Dr. Matthew Kreuter is the founder of the Health Communication Research Laboratory, a leading center nationally that is now in its 22nd year of continuous funding from the National Cancer Institute. Dr.Kreuter’s research seeks to identify and apply communication-based strategies to eliminate health disparities. It focuses on finding ways to increase the reach and effectiveness of health information for low-income and minority populations using information and technology to connect them to needed health services. Dr. Kreuter served for six years on the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. His work has been funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Nursing Research, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.