WALS NIH Director's Lecture: Reducing Firearm Violence: A Public Health Approach
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He formerly spent a week each year at the University of Vermont as a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large. The lecture will describe the enormity of the US gun violence problem and the public health approach for reducing that problem. It will illustrate the public health approach, including emphasizing the importance of data and research, with examples of ways to reduce suicide and unintentional firearm deaths. Dr. Hemenway teaches classes on injury and on economics. At HSPH he has won ten teaching awards as wel...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Data, Research and Firearm Injury Prevention
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He formerly spent a week each year at the University of Vermont as a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large.
Dr. Hemenway teaches classes on injury and on economics. At HSPH he has won ten teaching awards as well as the inaugural community engagement award.
Dr. Hemenway has written widely on injury prevention, including articles on firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls and fractures. He headed the pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System, which provides detai...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Harvard economist Katherine Baicker on the complex question of Medicaid expansion
Katherine Baicker, professor of health economics at Harvard ' s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, spoke at the HIMSS Pop Health Forum about the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, whose findings on the effects of Medicaid expansion have been touted by both supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Public Policy, Population and Public Health, Care Source Type: video
National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) May Meeting: Open Session
The National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) consists of six ex officio members (or their designees): the Secretary, Health and Human Services; the Director, NIH; the Director, NINR; the Chief Nursing Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; the Director of the Division of Nursing of the Health Resources and Services Administration; and 15 members appointed by the Secretary. Two-thirds of the members appointed by the Secretary are from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines (including public health and the behavio...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 13, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Peering Beyond the Blindspot Seeking Authentic Risk Factors: a Case Study
Dr. Eve Higginbotham is the inaugural Vice Dean for Inclusion and Diversity of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a position she assumed on August 1, 2013. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the immediate past president of the AOA Medical Honor Society and currently serves on the National Academy of Medicine Council and the National Research Council Board. Dr. Higginbotham serves as a member of the Finance Committee of the National Academy of Medicine. Notable prior leadershi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council for Nursing Research: January 2021
The National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) consists of six ex officio members (or their designees): the Secretary, Health and Human Services; the Director, NIH; the Director, NINR; the Chief Nursing Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; the Director of the Division of Nursing of the Health Resources and Services Administration; and 15 members appointed by the Secretary. Two-thirds of the members appointed by the Secretary are from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines (including public health and the behavio...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 23, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIMHD The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. Workshop (Day 2)
Work is a social determinant of health that may explain a considerable amount of health disparities for racial and ethnic minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. This workshop will convene experts from the research fields of health disparities, population sciences, labor economics, occupational health, epidemiology, and organizational sociology and psychology to consider work as a social determinant of health and identify potential mechanisms and interventions to address health disparities.Air date: 9/29/2020 10:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIMHD The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. Workshop (Day 1)
Work is a social determinant of health that may explain a considerable amount of health disparities for racial and ethnic minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. This workshop will convene experts from the research fields of health disparities, population sciences, labor economics, occupational health, epidemiology, and organizational sociology and psychology to consider work as a social determinant of health and identify potential mechanisms and interventions to address health disparities.Air date: 9/28/2020 10:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) - September 2020
The National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) consists of six ex officio members (or their designees): the Secretary, Health and Human Services; the Director, NIH; the Director, NINR; the Chief Nursing Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; the Director of the Division of Nursing of the Health Resources and Services Administration; and 15 members appointed by the Secretary. Two-thirds of the members appointed by the Secretary are from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines (including public health and the behavio...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) - May 2020
The National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) consists of six ex officio members (or their designees): the Secretary, Health and Human Services; the Director, NIH; the Director, NINR; the Chief Nursing Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; the Director of the Division of Nursing of the Health Resources and Services Administration; and 15 members appointed by the Secretary. Two-thirds of the members appointed by the Secretary are from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines (including public health and the behavio...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Researchers on the Boreal Fires team are working to increase community resilience to wildfire.
Researchers on the Boreal Fires team are working to increase community resilience to wildfire by developing outlooks for subseasonal-to-seasonal fire risk, by modeling fire spread and severity, and by improving understanding of the economics of fire management and of impacts of wildfire to ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 7, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Digital health facilitating value-based care
Among the biggest obstacles to reimbursement are the lack of interoperability and patients not owning their data, says Rob Lieberthal, principal of health economics at MITRE. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - January 6, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Interoperability Patient Engagement Source Type: video
National Advisory Council for Nursing Research - September 2019
The National Advisory Council for Nursing Research (NACNR) consists of six ex officio members (or their designees): the Secretary, Health and Human Services; the Director, NIH; the Director, NINR; the Chief Nursing Officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; the Director of the Division of Nursing of the Health Resources and Services Administration; and 15 members appointed by the Secretary. Two-thirds of the members appointed by the Secretary are from among the leading representatives of the health and scientific disciplines (including public health and the behavio...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 11, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Closing the Divide in Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul received a master ’ s and doctoral degree in Economics from Harvard University. She undertakes global health research, advocacy and policymaking focused on reducing inequities and improving the socio-economic conditions of vulnerable populations, with emphasis on Latin America. Her main areas of research include access to palliative care and pain relief, global cancer care and control, women and health, health system reform and finance, gender-based violence and children in especially difficult circumstances.
At the University of Miami, she i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Paying patients to take their medications
Wellth ’s apps employ various behavioral economics strategies to engage patients and help them achieve optimal outcomes, says Neha Gavai, head of business development. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - January 15, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Connected Health Patient Engagement Telehealth Source Type: video
