Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC)

SciComm x Community Engagement: Exploring Principles and Practices
2024-03-27 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
This program aims to provide participants with interdisciplinary training and foundational skills in community-engaged science communication and research. Through exploring the concept of community, we will discuss effective strategies for engagement and emphasize the significance of communicating research findings to both scientists and community members. Attendees will leave equipped with practical tips, tricks, and additional resources to support their involvement in community engagement, both within and beyond the Rutgers community.
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:15 PM EST
Location: Zoom Meeting
Registration: Click here to RSVP!

Workshop Highlights:

Engaging Discussions: Dive into conversations about effectively engaging diverse audiences, including communities within common cities.
Combatting Stereotypes: Learn how to share information responsibly, avoiding the perpetuation of stereotypes and misconceptions.
Funding Insights: Explore funding opportunities and understand the limitations that may impact your science communication initiatives.
Getting Started Guide: Receive practical tips and guidance on how to kickstart your journey in science communication.
Resources: Access resources to support your ongoing efforts in communicating science effectively.

NeC-ROTAC Virtual Training - Harm Reduction Principles, Strategies and Benefits
2024-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Hosted by the Northeast and Caribbean Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Center (NeC-ROTAC)

With increasing overdose rates, a more lethal drug supply, and more prescription medications in many homes, it’s important to educate a wider audience about harm reduction and what it means: essentially, reducing the negative consequences of potentially risky behaviors. This workshop will present different definitions of harm reduction, highlight how we all practice harm reduction in our lives, and explain how harm reduction strategies are implemented in different settings, with a focus on rural communities. It will also address community concerns and hesitations about harm reduction, ways to reduce the harms of stigma surrounding drug use, and opportunities to build bridges between harm reduction and treatment for people with substance use disorders.

Presenter: Susan Stellin, MPH

For more information and registration, click here.

2024 Research2Practice Symposium
2024-04-02 09:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Interested in learning strategies for developing partnerships between academia and industry? Want to learn how to incorporate justice into your course or program design? Committed to improving student belonging? Want to increase diversity in STEM? Curious about pathways for informing federal policy?
You’ll have the opportunity to grow your capacity across each of these topics at the Symposium. Click here to learn more about the Symposium and R2P Program and meet the fellows.
RSVP by 5:00 pm on Tuesday, March 26th for in-person participation and by Friday, March 29th for virtual attendance.
For more information and to RSVP, click here.

Psychiatry Grand Rounds with Drs. Hugick and Peesapati - Psychedelics focused talks
2024-04-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual

10th Annual New York City Epidemiology Forum: A New Decade of NYCEF: New Tools and Partnerships for New Challenges
2024-04-04 09:00 - 16:00
The event will be co-hosted by NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU School of Global Public Health. The conference includes oral presentations, posters, and discussion sessions and is expected to lead to new collaborative activities, such as networks with shared resources and joint educational programs.
For the past 10 years, NYCEF has provided a vibrant forum for regular contact and exchanges between epidemiologists working in academic and other institutions in the New York City metropolitan area, with a special focus on junior researchers, including junior faculty, postdocs, fellows, and students. NYCEF fosters increased awareness about research conducted across institutions. It provides opportunities for researchers to present their work, with the overall goals of promoting bilateral or multisite collaborative projects and enhancing career opportunities for junior investigators. For questions and inquiries, please contact the 2024 event coordinator, Rebecca Gevertz, at Rebecca.Gevertz@NYULangone.org.
Please register before Monday, March 25, 2024. Attendance is free and includes lunch. We welcome all staff, students, and faculty of participating New York City institutions.
For more information, click here.
Location: Murphy Auditorium, NYU Langone Health, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

BHI Plenary Seminar Series with Helen Mayberg, "What is well? Decoding Recovery Signals to Optimize DBS Treatment for Depression"
2024-04-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Join Zoom Meeting: CLICK HERE.

34th Annual Texas Research Society on Alcoholism (TRSA) Scientific Meeting
2024-04-05 09:00 - 17:00
UT Health San Antonio
Academic Learning & Teaching Center (ALT-C), Room 3.302 – 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229
Featured Presentations include:

“Special Emphasis Panel – Issues in Psychedelic Medicine”
Panelists:
Greg Fonzo PhD – Dell Center for Psychedelic Research & Therapy
John Roache PhD – Promises and Insights of Limited Research
Van King MD – Practical considerations of Advancing Psychedelic Medicine
“Role of Brain Vascular Cell Types in a Mouse Model of Ethanol Exposure“
Brent Kisby, Graduate Student, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock
(2023 TRSA McGovern Fellowship Award recipient)Other presentations in psychedelic medicine / vaccine development, and alcohol and other substance addiction research

Online Abstract submission – Click Here
deadline – March 1st 6:00pm
Registration Rates:

Student – $30 member / $75 non-member
Postdoctoral Fellow – $40 member / $110 non-member
Faculty, Other Professionals, Community Members – $60 member / $130 non-members
For more information, click here!

SSW Webinar: The Dynamics of Addiction, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
2024-04-10 09:30 - 12:30 | Virtual
It is clear that all forms of abuse are destructive. This webinar will address the interrelationships between addiction, domestic violence and child abuse and the devastating impact they have on all involved. We will explore the values of maintaining dysfunction and what it takes to interrupt the process. The increased concerns over stress in the hostile home environment will also be discussed.

Instructor:
John Kriger, MSM, LCADC, CPS

Date:
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Time:
9:30 am – 12:30 pm ET

Location:
Live Interactive Online Webinar

For more information and registration, click here.

9th International Research Conference on Adolescents and Adults with FASD
2024-04-11 09:00 - 2024-04-14 16:30
Despite thousands of published articles on FASD, limited research focuses specifically on adolescents and adults with FASD. As individuals diagnosed with FASD age, the “need to know” across a broad spectrum of areas continues to be critically important for identifying clinically relevant research questions and directions that will impact their day-to-day function and health outcomes.
Building on the work of eight previous conferences*, we aim to examine relevant global research, programs and policies. What can we learn from practice-based evidence? What does existing or emerging research tell us? Are the results transferable from country to country and/or from laboratory and clinical studies to real life? Are there clinical implications of results from any of these areas of which we should be aware? What are the changes in our thinking, practice and directions that will be required to improve outcomes? What are the implications for the future?
We hope you can join us at this interactive conference and be at the forefront of addressing these relevant global issues.
*This conference, previously held in Vancouver, Canada and hosted by University of British Columbia’s Interprofessional Continuing Education, has been moved to Seattle, the birthplace of the FASD diagnosis in North America. FASD United has taken on the task of putting on this unique global FASD conference in consultation with the International Adult Leadership Collaborative (ALC) FASD Changemakers, a group of talented and dedicated individuals with FASD who are leaders in the community.
This conference has been moved to Seattle, Washington – the closest place to Vancouver and the birthplace of the FASD diagnosis in North America.
The Hyatt Regency Seattle | 808 Howell St, Seattle, WA
For more information, click here.

9th International Research Conference on Adolescents and Adults with FASD
2024-04-11 09:00 - 2024-04-14 17:00
For more information, click here.

NYU-HEAL: Academic-Public Partnership to Improve Quality of Care for People with Substance Use Disorders with Charles J. Neighbors, PhD, MBA
2024-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The NYU Health Evaluation and Analytics Lab (NYU-HEAL) is an academic-public partnership that employs research to support improvements to the system of care for individuals with substance use disorders in New York. The initiative uses mixed methods that combine analyses of statewide administrative data (e.g., Medicaid) with qualitative interviews of system stakeholders. The seminar will provide an overview of NYU-HEAL as well as examples of how the partnership informs state policy initiatives.
Register here: https://go.rutgers.edu/m3l17qsi

NIH F-Series Fellowship Grant Writing Workshop
2024-04-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Interested in submitting an NIH F-Series Fellowship application? Join us for a Grant Writing F-Fellowship workshop on Tuesday, April 16th, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. EST. All interested students and Postdocs are welcome to attend this in-person session in Piscataway, NJ, at EOHSI (Room C). All others can participate via Zoom. This workshop will provide an overview of the basic components of a NIH NRSA Fellowship application! It will be a great introduction to our 10-week fellowship writing series this Fall 2024.
To register, click here!

Voices for Non-Opioid Choices Event - Continuing the Fight: Preventing Opioid Addiction in America
2024-04-17 08:30 - 14:00
On behalf of Voices for Non-Opioid Choices, we are delighted to extend an invitation for you to join us for our event Continuing the Fight: Preventing Opioid Addiction in America. This event will take place on Wednesday, April 17, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center, 775 12th Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20005.
Join us and experts from public health, patient advocacy, clinical practice, industry, and government to discuss next steps to continue to curb rates of opioid-related overdose deaths through targeted federal policy approaches.
Session Topics

View from the White House: The Administration’s Response to the Opioid Crisis
Current State of the Opioid Addiction Crisis in America
Next Steps in Federal Response to Opioid Addiction Crisis
Preventing Opioid Addiction in Key Communities
Recommendations for Addressing Gaps in Federal Government Response

To confirm your participation, please RSVP by registering here.

Rutgers Health Annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Symposium
2024-04-17 10:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Agenda:

10:00 am – Opening Remarks by Dr. Enobong “Anna” Branch, Senior Vice President for Equity, Rutgers University
10:30 am – RBHS IDEA Grant Presentations. Moderated by Dr. Sangeeta Lamba
1:00 pm – Afternoon Keynote by Dr. Shirley Malcom, Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Register HERE

Rutgers Peer Mentoring Network for Early Career Professionals - Topic: Social Networking & AI
2024-04-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Rutgers Club, Livingston Campus
For those who are in New Brunswick and are relatively new to Rutgers, we welcome you to join our Peer Mentoring Network, which was created for early career professionals by early career professionals! We have some events this semester at the Rutgers Club and would love to have you. Feel free to forward along to anyone who might be interested!

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Linda Oshin (linda.oshin@rutgers.edu).

SSW Webinar - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders
2024-04-19 09:30 - 15:30 | Virtual
The Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Treatment of Substance Use Disorders training is a clinical webinar that reviews Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy theory and interventions. The thought-feeling-action model of cognitive therapy will be discussed in the context of substance use. The training builds on foundational knowledge and incorporates clinical considerations and specific interventions in treatment of Substance Use Disorders. The training focuses on core cognitive and behavioral interventions while adding elective therapeutic components to customize treatment for clients. The training targets clinicians who provide individual substance use treatment. Training experience will be highly interactive with ample opportunity for learning and refining skills through role-play, demonstration, and a mock case-conceptualization exercise. *This is a 5.5 hours webinar. Attendees must attend the full day to receive a certificate of completion.

Instructor:
Bernard Showers, DSW, LCSW

Date:
Friday, April 19, 2024

Time:
9:30 am – 3:30 pm ET

Location:
Live Interactive Online Webinar

For more information and registration, click here.

Primary Care Collaborative Webinar: The Evidence Behind Whole-Person Primary Care
2024-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Join the Primary Care Collaborative for a discussion about reimagining primary care to better integrate lifestyle medicine, behavioral health and non-pharmacological interventions. Health care is abuzz about the importance of whole-person health. But what exactly does “whole-person health” mean? What does the evidence show about its effectiveness? And how can primary care adequately address the whole person? Panelists will summarize the research on how interprofessional approaches to whole health—inclusive of physical, behavioral, spiritual, and socioeconomic well-being—impacts outcomes, costs, and the experiences of patients and their care teams. The webinar will also feature a short presentation from PCC President and CEO Ann Greiner about a new initiative promoting whole-person health.
Shawna Hudson, PhD, senior associate dean for population health research, will take part in a panel discussing the transformation of primary care with a focus on integrating lifestyle medicine, behavioral health, and non-drug treatments.
To register, click here.

SSW Webinar - Addiction and Recovery 2024: Where We Have Been, Where We Are Going
2024-04-24 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
This course examines how the field of addiction treatment and recovery has evolved since the development of 12-step recovery spaces in the 1950’s, from societal conceptualizations about addiction to how treatment and evidence-based practices have shaped what we now call clinical addiction treatment. Particular attention will be paid to how paradigms, stigma, and oppressive systems have influenced and shaped addiction and treatment trends. Participants will critically examine the successes and pitfalls of addiction treatment as it stands today, including specific models and systems of recovery and what the field calls “evidence-based practices”. Special attention will be paid to how the fields of neuroscience, epigenetics, and neuropharmacology have informed what we know today about addiction, and what it means for integrative recovery strategies moving forward.

Instructor:
Katherine Glick, LPC, CCS, ACS, MAC, BCHHP

Date:
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Time:
10:00 am – 1:00 pm ET

Location:
Live Interactive Online Webinar

For more information, click here.

Empowering Excellence: Women in Biomedical Sciences and the Power of Sponsorship Event
2024-04-24 16:30 - 18:00 | Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Ave, Newark
We’re thrilled to invite you to “Empowering Excellence: Women in Biomedical Sciences and the Power of Sponsorship,” a panel and networking event sponsored by the Women and Gender Equity Faculty Council (WGEC). All faculty are welcome.
Register here.
Date & Time: April 24, 2024, 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Location:
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Rosmary Gellene Room B515
185 South Orange Avenue
Newark, NJ

Panelists:

Vivian Bellofatto, PhD
Danielle M Dick, PhD
Antonina Mitrofanova, PhD
Shelby Pitts, DNP, RN, WHNP-BC

Knock Out Opioid Use Webinar: Trauma & Opioid Use Disorder
2024-04-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Register: click here

I4SUD Webinar - Elements of a Commercialization Plan: A Primer
2024-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join us for an insightful webinar where entrepreneurship expert Dr. Phil Phan will delve into the essential components necessary for a successful commercialization plan. If you are an academic researcher and have thought about making an impact using your innovative solutions, join us to learn how to navigate the complexities of bringing a product to market. From market analysis to distribution channels and funding strategies to marketing tactics, Dr. Phan will provide invaluable insights and practical tips to help you navigate the path to commercial success. At the end, he will discuss the Innovations for Substance Use Disorders (I4SUD) program which can help you bring these ideas and innovations to life!
For registration, click here.

RUSSW & NeC-ROTAC Webinar - Breaking the Cycle in Salem County: Substance Use and its Generational Impact
2024-04-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The Northeast and Caribbean Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Center is participating in Salem Health & Wellness Foundations’ Community Conversation on April 30th via Zoom.

Please join us for the April Community Conversation, which explores the broader context of substance use and young parents in Salem County. With a focus on families, this virtual conversation aims to unpack Salem County’s maternal and family health outcomes and substance use among young parents while promoting strength-based protective factors. Featuring a panel with expertise in rural substance use, family and child welfare, and perinatal considerations in South Jersey, this event will provide an overview of substance use and rural health in Salem County and family considerations of substance use and social drivers of health.

This conversation will feature stakeholders from across the state of New Jersey, including: Salem Health and Wellness Foundation, Rutgers University School of Social Work, Northeast and Caribbean Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Center, Montclair State University Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy, Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative, and Acenda Integrated Health. These stakeholders are continuously having conversations to address issues of substance use for families in Salem County and beyond.

Click the following link to register today: https://bit.ly/3PpFkkE

For more information, please contact Emily Hernandez at emilyhernandez@salemwellnessfoundation.org.

Rutgers Psychiatry Grand Rounds featuring Sade Frazier and Cecilia Vigil - "Hypnotic Agents & Controlled Substance: Best Practices in Correctional Setting"
2024-04-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
The Rutgers Department of Psychiatry is excited to invite to you join to us as we continue our special Grand Rounds sessions featuring our senior residents as presenters.
Please see attached PDF for instruction on texting attendance for CE Credits. Code will be distributed in the Chat during the session.
Meeting URL: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93346312802?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 933 4631 2802
Password: [REDACTED]

NJPN Webinar - The Role of the School Nurse and School Physician in Addressing Student Substance Use
2024-05-01 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
Offered by LEGAL ONE in partnership with the New Jersey State School Nurses
Association and New Jersey Prevention Network
Register Today: www.tinyurl.com/StudentSubstanceUse

Presented by:

David Nash, Esq., Director of Legal Education and National Outreach
Wayne Yankus, MD, FAAP, School Physician and former NJAAP President
Gina Emge, MSN, RN, NCSN, School Nurse, Lenape Regional High School District

This FREE webinar focuses on the role of the school nurse and school physician in addressing student use of marijuana, medical marijuana, other controlled dangerous substances, and student vaping. Participants will learn about tips for how the school nurse can effectively work with other key stakeholders, including school administrators, school physicians, outside medical providers and parents/guardians. The session will include a review of two comprehensive marijuana policy toolkits developed by the New Jersey Prevention Network, in collaboration with LEGAL ONE, that include information on legal requirements, tools for assessing and improving board policy and protocols, and other key resources.

Cyberbotany and the Quest for Epistemic Justice in Psychedelic Research Webinar featuring Dr. Joanna Kempner
2024-05-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Please join the Borghesi-Mellon Psychedelic Pasts, Presents & Futures Workshop Group for a presentation with Dr. Joanna Kempner.

The reemergence of psychedelic research in universities comes with a robust historical narrative that blames politicians for the rise and fall of scientific interest in these substances. While it’s true that public policies made it more difficult to study psychedelics in institutionalized settings, prohibition only pushed experimentation with psychedelics underground and out of sight. Nevertheless, knowledge produced underground has been foundational in contemporary psychedelic science, vis a vis a practice that I call “cyberbotany.”

Cyberbotany, or the digital ethnobotanical study, leverages the wealth of experiential data available within online communities to understand the use of psychedelic substances. This approach circumvents the legal and logistical barriers to traditional research by tapping into the vast, yet often overlooked, reservoir of knowledge generated in digital spaces.

It’s not always clear, however, that the use of cyberbotany translates into recognition of the value that diverse knowledge systems have brought into the field. I argue that cyberbotany underscores the importance of epistemic justice in the domain of psychedelic studies. By valuing the knowledge created in non-traditional settings, this approach contributes to a more equitable and comprehensive understanding of psychedelics’ role in medicine and society.

Register in advance for this meeting (Zoom).

Joanna Kempner, associate professor in theDepartment of Sociologyat Rutgers University, is an award-winning sociologist of science, medicine, technology, and inequality, and the author ofPsychedelic Outlaws: The Movement Revolutionizing Modern Medicine(Hachette, 2024) andNot Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health (Chicago, 2014).

Kempner’s research has been published in top journals across multiple disciplines, including Science, PLoS Medicine, and Social Science & Medicine and featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, PBS Newshour, and the BBC. You can see her entire family talk about migraine in the documentary Out of My Head.

CPDD Webinar - Researchers with Lived/Living Experience Involving Substance Use
2024-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
The CPDD Communications Committee is hosting a virtual webinar to engage CPDD researchers in considering how to incorporate perspectives of those with lived or living experience of substance use and/or SUD.
Several CPDD researchers with their own lived or living experience will share about their careers in research and perspectives on the benefits and barriers to engaging people with lived or living experience in research.
Attendees can expect to learn about current best practices for incorporating perspectives of people with lived and living experience into their ongoing research and how to empower people with lived or living experience of substance use to influence and lead impactful research on substance use.

Speakers for this webinar include:

Sierra Castedo de Martell, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Fellow, JEAP Initiative, Lighthouse Institute of Chestnut Health Systems
Patrick Hibbard, PhD, MBA, Postdoctoral Fellow, JEAP Initiative, Lighthouse Instituteof Chestnut Health Systems
Barrett Montgomery, PhD, Research Public Health Analyst, Research Triangle International
Kirsten Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine

CPDD Communications Committee Member Moderators:

Rachel E. Gicquelais, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bethea (Annie) Kleykamp, PhD, MA, Assistant Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore

The webinar will be recorded. Anyone who registers will receive a link to the cloud recording.
Should you have any questions, please email info@cpdd.org.

GSAPP Webinar - Treating Trauma when Addiction is Present
2024-05-08 12:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Trauma is a phenomenon that impacts all of our lives. This course will cover: the origins of trauma, the definition of trauma, the natural adaption to regulate and the vulnerability to substance use, history of treatment, anatomy of the brain, stress response, ACE Study and its correlation to addiction, discussion of the impact of in utero through age five, different types of trauma, ways to repair the brain, ways to build resiliency, and the future of trauma studies. This course will cover the impact of racial trauma and the ways incarceration has traumatized persons of color, particularly men of color, as black men have been disproportionately overrepresented as drug-using offenders. Review of treatment interventions will include top-down TF CBT, talk therapy, cognitive restructuring, exposure versus bottom-up SMART, Yoga therapy, Brainspotting, EMDR, etc.
Learning Objectives

As a result of this training participants will be able to identify a minimum of at least two examples of acute versus chronic trauma
As a result of this training participants will be able to describe at least one way the sympathetic nervous system functions differently than the parasympathetic nervous system.
As a result of this training participants will be able to recognize at least two different types of top-down approaches versus bottom-up approaches.

Instructor Bio
Joel Levine has been a multi licensed therapist and educator therapist for the last twenty five years, completing his Masters in Social Work, at Fordham University, with a Specialization in Substance Abuse and a two year post graduate training program in Family Therapy from the Multicultural Family Institute of Highland Park, New Jersey with Monica Mc Goldrick, LCSW and Nydia Garcia Preto, LCSW, as well two years of post-graduate training with The Center for Family, Community and Social Justice. He has also completed a one-year study with William Miller, the founder of Motivational Interviewing entitled Project Elicit, designed to provide clinicians with fidelity to the model, is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of trainers (MINT) and has been recognized by MINT as an approved trainer. He has recently completed all three levels of the Gottman Training.
He is licensed as a: Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Social Worker, Professional Counselor, and a Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor. In addition, he is a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a member of the American Family Therapy Academy, Academy of Certified Social Workers and is certified as an Approved Clinical Supervisor, Certified Clinical Supervisor; NASW NJ approved Supervisor and AAMFT Approved Supervisor. He is recognized as a leader in the field of marriage and Family Therapy by the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, recently serving as board president for the State of New Jersey. He is also certified as a Certified, Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Masters Addiction Counselor, Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Substance Abuse Professional, and a Nationally Certified Counselor.
He has a passion for working with families and their communities. He currently is a full-time therapist and partner in a private practice in Verona, New Jersey providing supervision and marriage and family therapy, specializing in couples therapy.
For more information and registration, click here.

Addiction Policy Forum Webinar: How to Build Opioid Data Dashboards for Community Decision-Making
2024-05-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual
Register here!
Data dashboards are powerful tools that can support community engagement and decision-making by providing public health surveillance, early detection of emerging health threats, and efficient resource allocation. These dashboards serve as a transparent and customizable platform for communicating critical information in easy-to-understand, interactive formats (e.g., charts, graphs, maps) to policymakers, stakeholders, community members, and the public. Many states and jurisdictions across the country have utilized data dashboards to identify trends, evaluate the effectiveness of existing policies, and develop targeted interventions to quell the ongoing substance use disorder and overdose crisis. As part of the HEALing Communities Study (HCS), a multi-site research study that tested the impact of an integrated set of evidence-based practices to reduce fatal opioid-related overdose, researchers from four participating research sites (New York, Massachusetts, Kentucky, and Ohio) developed unique dashboards to support data-driven decision-making.
Join us for a webinar to learn how data dashboards can facilitate evidence-based decision-making by providing insights into effective approaches, gaps in substance use disorder services, and opportunities to address challenges within communities. Presenters will provide a step-by-step walkthrough of the undertakings to develop the HCS dashboards, including the process of accessing, displaying, and explaining data; co-designing dashboards with state and local partners; implementing and using dashboards in the community; and best practices for using and sustaining them. They will also share publicly available tools that communities can use to develop their own dashboards, as well as a set of standardized measures used by HCS for data collection.

Rutgers Addiction Research Center Year in Review and Social Event
2024-05-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Rutgers Club, Livingston Campus
Please join us for an evening of food and drinks at the Rutgers Addiction Research Center’s annual Year in Review and Social Event. This gathering presents a wonderful opportunity to connect with fellow colleagues from Rutgers engaged in addiction research, as well as our clinical and community partners.
Dr. Danielle Dick, Director of the RARC, will deliver brief remarks on the current state of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center at 4:30 p.m.
Ahead of the main event, we’ll be hosting a trainee meet & greet hour starting at 3:00 p.m. This special hour is dedicated to post-docs, graduate students, research assistants, and any other trainees involved in our four research domains (Basic Science; Epidemiology, Etiology and Prevention; Treatment and Recovery; Public Policy). If you plan to attend the meet & greet, please let us know on the registration page.
Date & Time: Friday, May 10, 2024, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: Rutgers Club, 85 Avenue E, Piscataway, NJ 08854
Registration: CLICK HERE!
Directions & Parking:The Rutgers Club is located on the second floor of Livingston Dining Commons in Piscataway. Click HERE for directions. There is a small parking lot next to the Rutgers Club. Additional parking is available at Lot 101. Please register for our special event parking HERE.
*Students are not permitted to park in special events lots as per parking.

NIH Grants Process: A Brief Walk-Through for Beginners
2024-05-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Are you new to working with the NIH grants process? If so, make plans to join your peers as the NIH walks through essential aspects of applying for funding.
This event offers participants an opportunity to gain insights into:

The NIH’s organizational structure
How NIH funds research
Finding the right fit for your research, including NIH Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs)
The grants process
Peer review
NIH and applicant institution roles and responsibilities
Resources to help along the way.

This simulive event includes a short recording, followed by a live portion featuring a panel of NIH experts answering questions submitted during registration, as well as additional queries raised during the discussion. More than one hour will be devoted to Q&A with NIH…an opportunity you won’t want to miss!
Learn more at https://grants.nih.gov/learning-center/nih-grants-process-beginners-walk-through-webinar.
