Anita Roberts Lecture: The Science of Health Disparities: The Social Determinants of Health Meet the NIH Mission
2021 Anita Roberts Lecture
This lecture series highlights outstanding research achievements of women scientists at the NIH. This seminar is dedicated to Dr. Anita B. Roberts and honors her role as an exceptional mentor and scientist. This lecture is sponsored by the Women Scientists Advisors Committee, NIA and NICHD.Air date: 11/1/2021 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
A Galaxy of Genius? The Enduring Dream of Controlling Human Heredity
Speaker Nathaniel Comfort, Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins University presents a history lecture, " A Galaxy of Genius? The Enduring Dream of Controlling Human Heredity " . — " What a galaxy of genius might we not create! " burbled Francis Galton in 1865, exuberant about his conception of a voluntary human breeding program, to be informed by Darwinism. Subpar intelligence, he was convinced, lay at the root of poverty, promiscuity, disease, and antisocial behavior of all kinds. A similar enthusiasm girds contemporary social and behavioral genetics, or “ sociogenomics. ” In fact, every revolution in our understanding of heredi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Cinco millones de plantas a lo largo de 200 a ñ os tienen una historia que contar.
Los herbarios son colecciones de especímenes de plantas. En los últimos 200 años, científicos han recolectado más de cinco millones de especímenes de plantas, almacenadas en múltiples herbarios. La digitalización de estas colecciones que un mayor número de investigadores, administradores de ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - September 30, 2021 Category: Science Source Type: video
Hospitals poised to lose $54B this year; Apple eyeing mental health detection
This week ' s top stories include projections that hospitals could lose $54 billion in net income, Apple working to help detect depression and early-stage cognitive decline, and a link found between ransomware and increased mortality rate. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - September 24, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
To retain and attract talent, offer mental health benefits
Mary Langowski, CEO of Solera Health, says payers want to know how to change the experience to make access easy for beneficiaries. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - September 22, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Women Leaders in Academic Research: Re-Thinking Mentoring: Perspectives from a Biomedical Engineer
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Invited monthly lecture series highlighting& honoring women leaders in academic research, especially related disciplines of Interventional Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Imaging Sciences, Data Science,& Image-Guided Oncology. The honorary lecture series was established by the NIH Center for Interventional Oncology as a small effort to help counter the under-representation of women in academic research& the impact of gender disparity& implicit bias on role modeling and mentoring. Monthly topics are open-ended& are geared towards highlighting successful female or other under-represented ac...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 22, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Discovery in Biomedicine: a Focus on trans-NIH Use Cases
The explosion of biomedical big data and information in the past decade or so has created new opportunities for discoveries to improve the treatment and prevention of human diseases. But the large body of knowledge — mostly available as free text in journal articles for humans to read — presents a grand new challenge: individual scientists around the world are finding themselves increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of research literature and are struggling to keep up to date and to make sense of this wealth of textual information. Our research aims to break down this barrier and to empower scientists by providi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Reimagining Mental Health Care in the US: Lessons from Low-resourced Contexts
Speaker Vikram Patel, Ph.D., is the Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School. His work has focused on the burden of mental health problems across the life course, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/walsAir date: 10/27/2021 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 8, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Reading Between the Tweets: Social Technologies for Predicting and Changing Health Behavior
This talk is part of the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series presented by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.
Social technologies — for example, social media, mobile apps, internet searching, and wearable sensors — and the data they produce are increasingly being used as tools in public health research and practice. More than half of the world (4.5 billion people) is using social media sites to create, share, and discuss content. Social media users are not just sharing trivial facts, but publicly telling the world personal things about their thoughts, behaviors, and clinical diagnos...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Women Leaders in Academic Research: Triple Threat of Teaching, Research, & Patient Care: Easy as 1-2-3
Invited monthly lecture series highlighting and honoring women leaders in academic research, especially related disciplines of Interventional Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Imaging Sciences, Data Science, and Image-Guided Oncology. The honorary lecture series was established as a small effort to help counter the under-representation of women in academic research& the impact of gender disparity and implicit bias on role modeling and mentoring. Monthly topics are open-ended and are geared towards highlighting successful female or other under-represented academic leaders, as role models for trainees.For more in...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH Adherence Network Distinguished Webinar Series: COVID and the Telehealth Transformation of Mental Health Treatment and Services: Navigating New Opportunities and Challenges
In this one-hour webinar, Dr. Jay Shore will present on " COVID and the Telehealth Transformation of Mental Health Treatment and Services: Navigating New Opportunities and Challenges. " Dr. Shore, MD, MPH, is the Director of Office of Telehealth and Technology Implementation for Behavioral Health Practice and Science (TIPS), Department of Psychiatry, and a Professor in Department of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. His career has focused on the use of technology in...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH Adherence Network Distinguished Webinar Series: COVID and the Telehealth Transformation of Mental Health Treatment and Services: Navigating New Opportunities and Challenges
In this one-hour webinar, Dr. Jay Shore will present on " COVID and the Telehealth Transformation of Mental Health Treatment and Services: Navigating New Opportunities and Challenges. " Dr. Shore, MD, MPH, is the Director of Office of Telehealth and Technology Implementation for Behavioral Health Practice and Science (TIPS), Department of Psychiatry, and a Professor in Department of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. His career has focused on the use of technology in...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 30, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
National Advisory Mental Health Council Meeting
National Advisory Mental Health Council Open Policy SessionAir date: 9/14/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
How digital tools can alleviate the stigma of mental health issues
Victoria Betton, mHabitat founder and director and HIMSS UK Advisory Council member, says anonymity and remote access are just two benefits of using digital tools to help improve people ' s mental well-being. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Women in Health IT Roundtable: The need for mentorship
In this clip from the Women in Health IT roundtable discussion at HIMSS16, Carol Steltencamp, MD, and Sue Schade discuss the general absence of female mentorship early in their careers. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
