Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core on May 24th!

Incarceration, Health, and the Life Course with Nathan Link, PhD Wednesday, May 24, 2023 1–2 pm Join on Zoom View Flyer Professor Link will discuss his research on the connections between incarceration and health, including how mental and physical health states impact...

New NJACTS Publication

Please read Dr. Reichman’s article in JAMA Network Open titled, “Association Between Housing Affordability and Severe Maternal Morbidity.” In 2019, median housing costs grew faster than median household incomes for the eighth year in a row,...
Battling Bias in AI.

Battling Bias in AI.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in everyday life, concerns have grown around bias in its programming. Many of the tasks performed by AI are simple and innocuous, but as its capabilities expand, so does its potential for wide-ranging impact....
Rutgers Researcher Develops Mental Health App to Manage Distress.

Rutgers Researcher Develops Mental Health App to Manage Distress.

To help people regulate their emotions in healthy ways, a Rutgers researcher pioneered the Storm/breaker Emotion and Behavior Management app as a standalone smartphone mental health intervention. Based on his research on emotion dysregulation and emotional cascades...
Achieving Prevention and Health, Rather Than More Healthcare.

Achieving Prevention and Health, Rather Than More Healthcare.

If more people have access to health insurance, we have to be sure the death rates of those with certain chronic conditions are decreasing. This is one of the statements Gregory Peck, an acute care surgeon and associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical...