Recent Posts in Health Equity

Sep 1, 2022 - In Health Equity If you identify as Hispanic or Latino, what can you do to reduce your cancer risk?

New Brunswick, N.J. September 1, 2022 – According to the American Cancer Society 2021-2023 Cancer Facts and Figures for Hispanic/Latino People , cancer is the leading cause of death among the Hispanic U.S. population. While you can’t change risk factors ...

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Aug 12, 2022 - In Health Equity New PROUD Center at Community Medical Center Discussed on 92.7 WOBM FM

Ashley Riker, Director, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, Community Medical Center, was a recent guest on 92.7 WOBM during their Friday beach broadcasts from the RWJBarnabas Health Studio in Seaside Heights. Ashley discussed the opening of the new PROUD ...

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Aug 5, 2022 - In Health Equity RWJBarnabas Health Corporate Anchor Roundtable, June 21, 2022

The RWJBarnabas Health Social Impact & Community Investment practice (SICI) leverages RWJBarnabas Health’s broad range of assets to advance a culture of health and improve the quality of life for communities throughout New Jersey. The Social Impact & ...

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Jul 29, 2022 - In Health Equity Nourishing Hungry Neighbors

An innovative program from Community Medical Center in Toms River delivers food where it's needed most. For Community Medical Center (CMC) , serving area residents means more than providing trusted, state-of-the-art medical care. It also means offering ...

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Jul 25, 2022 - In Health Equity Enhancing Awareness and Participation of Black Breast Cancer Patients in Clinical Trials

Coral Omene, MD, PhD , medical oncologist in the Stacy Goldstein Breast Cancer Center at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center together with RWJBarnabas Health, has ...

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Jul 6, 2022 - In Health Equity Nourishing Hungry Neighbors

An innovative program from Community Medical Center in Toms River delivers food where it's needed most. For Community Medical Center (CMC) , serving area residents means more than providing trusted, state-of-the-art medical care. It also means offering ...

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Jun 29, 2022 - In Health Equity A Look at Black Women in the Workplace on Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race

The February 24, 2022 session of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race discussed Black women in the workplace with featured guest speaker Linda Goler Blount, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, a national ...

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Jun 29, 2022 - In Health Equity Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race Held on March 25

In honor of Women’s History Month, a conversation with African American women who are leaders at RWJBarnabas Health was held on March 25, 2021 on the intersectionality of being Black and a woman, the need to “shift” or code-switch, and how this behavior ...

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Jun 29, 2022 - In Health Equity Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race: Understanding the Impact of Microaggressions

The April 29, 2021 segment of Equitable Encounters: Real Talk About Race focused on microaggressions – a subtle, often unconscious prejudice that results in discrimination against a member of an oppressed or marginalized group with Jennifer R. Jones-Damis, ...

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