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A $5 million National Institutes of Health grant awarded to the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) will launch outreach campaigns and expand access to COVID-19 testing for underserved and vulnerable communities in New Jersey.

Called the New Jersey Healthcare Essential WoRker Outreach and Education Study – Testing Overlooked Occupations, or NJ HEROES TOO, the Rutgers-led study is funded under the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative, RADx Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) program. The program supports research that aims to better understand COVID-19 testing patterns among underserved and vulnerable populations; strengthen the data on disparities in infection rates, disease progression and outcomes; and develop strategies to reduce the disparities in COVID-19 testing.