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

Sparking innovation for a health economy that assures health
Health assurance is about migrating from sick care to preventive care, and funding innovations that improve costs and experiences can help drive that shift, says Sumit Nagpal, founder and CEO of Cherish. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Three big trends in health IT standards
Amit Trivedi, director of Informatics& Health IT Standards at HIMSS, details three big trends he sees in health IT standards: around public health, global health and the API economy. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 12, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Making virtual care profitable
New care paradigms are nothing without new payment paradigms to make them work. In this episode of the Virtual Care Paradigm, health economist Jane Sarasohn-Kahn looks at what the virtual care economy might look like. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 21, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Exploring key trends in digital transformation of healthcare
Shaping the future of healthcare IT requires an understanding of common problems and solving them in a whole health economy – inside and outside of the hospital, says Mike Fuller, regional managing director at InterSystems. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video

Health tech innovation hub supporting Japanese startups
Dr. Yuuri Ueda, director of Health 2.0 in Japan, discusses the country ' s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry health tech innovation hub launched to support startups. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Connected Health Innovation Pulse Source Type: video

Exploring key trends in digital transformation of healthcare
Shaping the future of healthcare IT requires an understanding of common problems and solving them in a whole health economy – inside and outside of the hospital, says Mike Fuller, regional managing director at InterSystems. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - March 22, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Interoperability Workflow Source Type: video

Water-splitting fuels future hydrogen economy
Molecular models representing a 2D heterostructure made of graphene (gray background hexagonal lattice) and islands on top of hexagonal (graphene) WS2 and MoS, as well as an alloy of the two. More about this image A team of scientists from PennState University and Florida State ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 13, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video

Hands-on learning research that benefits the economy, environment -- Science Nation
Research consistently shows that children who have opportunities to actively investigate natural settings and engage in problem-based learning greatly benefit from the experiences. They gain skills, interests, knowledge, aspirations and motivation to learn more. But how can educators provide ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - June 29, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video

What impact does government funded basic research have on the economy?
Have the impact government funded basic research has on the economy? Dr. Lara Philips Schroeder, Founder and CEO of Spheryx Inc., answers your question in this edition of Ask a Scientist. Spheryx is supported by America’s Seed Fund powered by the National Science Foundation, a nearly ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - February 14, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video

NSF Engineering Research Centers to advance US health, energy sustainability
For over 30 years, NSF Engineering Research Centers have promoted innovation, helped to maintain America's competitive edge, and added billions of dollars to the U.S. economy. They bring together talented innovators and entrepreneurs with resources from academia, industry and government to produce ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 12, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video

How NSF helps drive our nation’s economy
A look at how NSF investments in basic research and people are critical to maintaining the scientific and technological edge that drives U.S. economic growth.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - July 25, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video

A brief look at how NSF-supported fundamental research helps drive our nation's economy
, enhance our security, advance our knowledge to sustain global leadership, and transform our future. This extended version includes additional information about the agency’s mission, budget and merit review ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - April 19, 2017 Category: Science Source Type: video

Hands-on learning research benefits economy, environment (Image 2)
Students participating in the Billion Oyster Project (BOP) examine organisms they pulled from New York Harbor. An initiative of New York Harbor Foundation, the National Science Foundation-supported BOP is an ecosystem restoration and education project aimed at restoring 1 billion live oysters to ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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