AI in the Age of COVID-19: Computational Tools for the Classification, Prediction, and Characterization of a Pandemic
Traditional methods of epidemic modeling continue to be used fruitfully for characterizing outbreaks and predicting the spread of disease in populations. However, these methods, typically relying on what are known as “ compartment models ” , require assumptions that are not necessarily sensitive to the ever-changing environmental, behavioral, temporospatial, and social phenomena that influence disease spread. However, compartment models can be enriched by the judicious use of robust methods drawn from the field of artificial intelligence that allow us to model more accurately and more quickly the population and disease...
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Researchers help teachers address COVID-19 in science education
This research project will produce curricular materials designed to help high school students learn about viral epidemics as both a scientific and social issue. It will engage students in scientific modeling of the epidemic and in critical analyses of media and public health information about ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Research Symposium: Reporting, Recording, and Remembering the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
A public research symposium involving Virginia Tech students studying the history of data in social context through individual and collaborative primary-source research at the National Library of Medicine and elsewhere, and as part of their course Topics in the History of Data in Social Context, being taught by Dr. E. Thomas Ewing, Virginia Tech Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Professor.
During the symposium, the students will present their research on various aspects of the 1918 pandemic, including newspaper reporting at the peak of the epidemic (late September to early November 1918), contemporary social ...
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Research Symposium: Mortality Statistics during the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
A public research symposium involving Virginia Tech students studying the history of data in social context through individual and collaborative primary-source research at the National Library of Medicine and elsewhere. During the symposium, the students will present their research on various aspects of the 1918 pandemic, including newspaper reporting at the peak of the epidemic (late September to early November 1918), contemporary social distancing policies and procedures, and how contemporaries determined that the epidemic was ending, and how they remembered the remarkable experience of this intense, but brief, crisis in...
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Early-Stage Investigator Lecture: Scaling up HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to End the HIV Epidemic
ODP 2020 Early-Stage Investigator Lecture
Daily oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is up to 99% effective in preventing HIV transmission and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration since 2012. However, of the 1.2 million Americans who could benefit from PrEP, less than 20% have used it, and there are substantial racial and ethnic disparities in uptake. Scale-up of PrEP is a critical component of the federal initiative to end the HIV epidemic, but achieving this goal will require effective strategies to improve PrEP implementation. In this presentation, Dr. Marcus will discuss her research on strategi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Developing Meaningful Endpoints for Pain Clinical Trials (Day 2)
More than 25 million Americans suffer from daily chronic pain, a highly debilitating medical condition that is complex and difficult to manage. In recent decades, there has been an overreliance on the prescription of opioids for chronic pain, contributing to a significant and alarming epidemic of opioid overdose deaths and addiction. Innovative scientific solutions to develop non-opioid, non-addictive alternative treatment options are thus urgently needed.
One of the goals of the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative is to accelerate the discovery and preclinical development of new medications and devices to...
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Developing Meaningful Endpoints for Pain Clinical Trials (Day 1)
More than 25 million Americans suffer from daily chronic pain, a highly debilitating medical condition that is complex and difficult to manage. In recent decades, there has been an overreliance on the prescription of opioids for chronic pain, contributing to a significant and alarming epidemic of opioid overdose deaths and addiction. Innovative scientific solutions to develop non-opioid, non-addictive alternative treatment options are thus urgently needed.
One of the goals of the Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative is to accelerate the discovery and preclinical development of new medications and devices to...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Early-Stage Investigator Lecture: Scaling up HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis to End the HIV Epidemic
ODP 2020 Early-Stage Investigator Lecture
Daily oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is up to 99% effective in preventing HIV transmission and has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2012. However, of the 1.2 million Americans who could benefit from PrEP, less than 20% have used it, and there are substantial racial and ethnic disparities in uptake. Scale-up of PrEP is a critical component of the federal initiative to end the HIV epidemic, but achieving this goal will require effective strategies to improve PrEP implementation. In this presentation, Dr. Marcus will discuss her research on st...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 28, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
World AIDS Day 2019
World AIDS Day
Community and NIH: In Partnership to End the HIV Epidemic.Air date: 12/2/2019 10:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 5, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Combating clinician burnout with human-centered approach to tech, workflows
Deep Dive: Overwork has become an epidemic among physicians and nurses. Fixing the problem demands new strategies to restore joy to medicine. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Workflow Workforce Source Type: video
Informatics for Genomics-informed Surveillance of RNA Viruses
NLM Informatics and Data Science Lecture Series
Genomics-informed surveillance is now recognized as an important extension to the monitoring of rapidly evolving pathogens. Next generation sequencing has the ability to produce large amounts of data for tracking viruses of public health importance. Biomedical informatics approaches are able to facilitate the translation of these data into information for public health surveillance. Thus, epidemiologists can identify new outbreaks or monitor the course of a known epidemic by leveraging pathogen sequences (and corresponding metadata) generated from the clinical specimens of si...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Strengthening the Impact of Community Health Workers on HIV Care and Viral Suppression in the U.S. Conference (Day 1)
The purpose of this NIH conference, led by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), is to launch an NIH Office of AIDS Research - funded initiative to establish evidence for engaging community health workers to close the gap between antiretroviral therapy prescription and viral suppression, a critical step to preventing the transmission of HIV, improving lives and ending the HIV epidemic. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers, health professionals, nurse scientists and community health workers to identify research gaps, learn from each other and explore collaborations.For more information g...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Strengthening the Impact of Community Health Workers on HIV Care and Viral Suppression in the U.S. Conference (Day 2)
The purpose of this NIH conference, led by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), is to launch an NIH Office of AIDS Research - funded initiative to establish evidence for engaging community health workers to close the gap between antiretroviral therapy prescription and viral suppression, a critical step to preventing the transmission of HIV, improving lives and ending the HIV epidemic. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers, health professionals, nurse scientists and community health workers to identify research gaps, learn from each other and explore collaborations.For more information g...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 10, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Culture change needed to curb the opioid epidemic
Intermountain is looking at data, prescribing habits and EHR defaults to help curtail the issue, says Dr. James Hellewell, medical director of Care Transformation Information Systems at the healthcare provider. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - July 16, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: HIMSS19 Patient Engagement Pharmacy Workforce Source Type: video
NIH Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research 2019 (Day 2)
On May 30th – May 31st, 2019, the NIH Pain Consortium will convene the 14th Annual NIH Pain Consortium Symposium on Advances in Pain Research. The symposium: “ Pain Across the Lifespan, ” will feature a keynote address by Drs. Anne Case and Sir Angus Deaton of Princeton University, entitled “ Pain and Opioids in an Epidemic of Mental and Economic Distress. ”For more information go tohttps://painconsortium.nih.govAir date: 5/31/2019 8:00:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
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