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THE SPOTLIGHT<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>|<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>WHAT’S NEW<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>|<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>GET INVOLVED<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>|<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>CONSORTIUM CORNER<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike’s Blog March\u00a02021<\/strong><\/p>\n

3rd Out, Bottom of the 1st, Variants on Deck<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public health now has a 3rd arrow in its quiver in the form of another COVID vaccine. The J&J vaccine is the first to offer a single dose with refrigeration requirements suitable for a wider array of health care settings. All that said, vaccine hesitancy remains an obstacle to an effective public health response. In this regard, CTSAs are playing a critical role in addressing public concerns about these vaccines. Vaccine hesitancy is nothing unique to COVID and seems to be present across the spectrum without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, religion, or socioeconomic status. To Access Full Blog –\u00a0<\/span>Click Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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COVID-19 Recruitment + Retention Toolkit<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) has been heavily involved in multisite COVID-19 trial design and implementation, having consulted on 29 COVID-19 related studies as of this writing. While striving to maintain its values of community engagement, participant-informed methods, and scalable design, the RIC has developed new tools and strategies that work in this transformed clinical trial space.<\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of this toolkit is to share the community input the RIC has received, and the resources it has developed, that can help study teams conduct trials in a manner that is safe, trustworthy, and respectful of all participants. Organized by the continuum of recruitment activities needed to complete a trial, the RIC presents here the ideas, concepts, and materials that it has successfully implemented to support recruitment and retention for COVID-19 trials, as well as for non-COVID trials taking place during the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Informatics Community Using EHR Data to Answer COVID-19 Questions: Featuring<\/h4>\n
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\"\"The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) continues to grow as a robust EHR data resource, now with over 3 million persons represented and 4 billion rows of data from more than 42 sites. Currently, 24 multidisciplinary Domain Teams composed of clinical and subject matter experts, statisticians, informaticists, and machine learning specialists are addressing the most pressing clinical questions. N3C data can be utilized to: understand COVID-19’s impact on health, collect pilot data for grant submissions, train algorithms on larger datasets, inform clinical trial design, learn how to use tools for large-scale COVID-19 data, and validate results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Registration Now Open: Tackling the Digital Divide to Improve Telehealth Un-Meeting<\/h4>\n

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Telehealth is an emerging field. \u00a0Prior to the pandemic, telehealth was shown in several chronic conditions to improve access, reduce hospitalization rates, and have lower costs to the patient than traditional in-person visits. These interventions are adaptable and have the potential to impact healthcare in communities that are medically underserved and under-resourced. This virtual Un-Meeting is a \u00bd day attendee-driven event with time devoted to idea sharing, developing relationships, and identifying collaborative opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Register for Translational Science 2021<\/span>
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Join trainees, researchers, and federal program officers for a virtual meeting March 30- April 2, 2021, to learn about the latest research\u00a0and explore new opportunities for funding and collaboration.\u00a0<\/span>Register today<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

Register for the 2021 Spring CTSA Program Group Meetings<\/h4>\n

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The 2021 Spring CTSA Program Group Meetings will be held on Wednesday, April 14th, and Thursday, April 15th. These virtual meetings will bring the groups together to discuss and review their efforts over the past year and determine their future direction and goals. We plan to incorporate different aspects to enhance your virtual meeting experience without the inconvenience of leaving your home\/office! Those aspects include the following:<\/p>\n