Developing and Testing a Nurse-Led Technology-Enhanced Family Engagement Program (Nurse-TECH-Family) Among Critically Ill Patients in ICU: A Feasibility Trial
Family engagement in care for ICU patients is essential to ensure patient-centered clinical outcomes such as reducing ICU LOS about a day, and hospital LOS from 3.78 days to 2.29 days.Factors Influencing Asthma Self-Management and Disparities in Asthma Control among Adolescents from Low-Income Minority FamiliesAsthma is the most common chronic inflammatory disease of childhood with a disproportionately higher prevalence among adolescents of ethnic minority groups and socioeconomically marginalized groups compared to whites and high-income families.Filipino American Women’s Health and Mental Health Needs AssessmentFilipino Americans experience significant health disparities such as having higher rates of depression, postpartum depression, and psychological trauma compared to other Asian subgroups.Developing a Culturally Congruent Survey to Study Trauma, Gun Violence, and Health among Black Men in Southern New JerseyWe will develop and pilot a culturally congruent health survey that measures individual, community, and institutional adversities experienced by Black men injured by firearms in South Jersey.Trauma Informed Education
We seek to engage and partner with all school districts and parents across southern New Jersey to build awareness and responsiveness to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and traumatic stress in children/adolescents , to promote and improve youth mental health.
Improving Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Retention After Release From Incarceration
We seek to increase engagement in addiction care post-incarceration by better understanding factors associated with outpatient visit attendance after release.Making the Invisible Visible: Using Augmented Reality Visualization to Look Behind the Scenes at the Community Impacts of the Opioid Epidemic on the City of Camden
We seek to utilize augmented reality visualization and field-based observations to look behind the scenes of the opioid epidemic in the City of Camden to visualize the impact of opioid use and abuse on community health, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on community opioid use.
Social determinants of health are often outcomes of a core issue: poor financial health and literacy, which is at the core of most aspects of daily living.
This project will analyze stormwater samples collected by Camden residents from flooded basements and yards after heavy rain events. 
Emerging perspectives suggest that lymphatic system plays a critical role in fluid overload management in patients with heart failure (HF).