Covering the Disease of the Century: A Journalist's Personal Perspective on AIDS, 1981-2015
Physician and journalist Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., will deliver this year’s James C. Hill Memorial Lecture, “Covering the Disease of the Century: A Journalist’s Personal Perspective on AIDS, 1981–2015.” Dr. Altman will discuss his decades of reporting on HIV/AIDS, beginning with the 1981 appearance of the first U.S. cases of illness caused by the then-unknown virus.
Dr. Altman is a medical writer for The New York Times, where from 1969 to 2008 he was one of the few physicians employed full time for a daily newspaper. He continues to report on a variety of medical topics for the Times. Dr. Altman also writes “T...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 17, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee Meeting - March 2015
The Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2001 ("MD-CARE Act"; P.L. 107-84) authorized the establishment of the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) to coordinate activities across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and with other Federal health programs and activities relevant to the various forms of muscular dystrophy. The MDCC is a Congressionally mandated committee designed to coordinate research activities across NIH and with other Federal health programs and activities relating to the various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne, myotonic, facioscap...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 11, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Hatch Act Training
Overview of the rules pertaining to the partisan political activities of employees
Air date: 6/12/2014 9:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 10, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Office of Research on Women's Health Advisory Committe Meeting - April 2014
The Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health (ACRWH) was congressionally mandated by the NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 as a mechanism for eliciting advice and recommendations on priority issues affecting women’s health and sex differences research. In this role, the ACRWH advises the ORWH director on appropriate NIH research activities on women’s health; reviews the women’s health research portfolio for NIH; surveys goals for scientific career development; and assesses inclusion of women and minorities in NIH clinical research. ACRWH members are selected from among physicians, practitioners, scientists, an...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 2, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) Meeting - April 2014
The Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2001 ("MD-CARE Act"; P.L. 107-84) authorized the establishment of the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) to coordinate activities across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and with other Federal health programs and activities relevant to the various forms of muscular dystrophy. The MDCC is a Congressionally mandated committee designed to coordinate research activities across NIH and with other Federal health programs and activities relating to the various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne, myotonic, facioscap...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 3, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Envisioning The End of AIDS: Challenges and Prospects
LaMontagne Lecture
Considerable progress has been made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, but a sustained, comprehensive approach is needed to end to the pandemic, according to Dr. Salim S. Abdool Karim, a leading South African clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist and HIV prevention and treatment researcher. Abdool Karim will discuss how the global community is positioned to strengthen and reinvigorate the AIDS response during the 2014 John Ring LaMontagne Memorial Lecture titled, “Envisioning ‘The End of AIDS’: Challenges and Prospects.”
Abdool Karim is president of the South African Medical Resear...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 12, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
OGC Speaker Series - December 2013
Presented by: Congressman Henry WaxmanCategory: HHS OnlyAired date: 12/06/2013 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 11, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Public Health in the 21st Century: Too Big to Fail? (HHS Only)
Introduction by:
The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Presentation by:
Dr. Margaret Chan
Director-General
World Health Organization
Just since the start of this century, health challenges have become far more complex, and political leaders and the public are paying attention. Director-General Chan will discuss current trends in global health—including climate change, antimicrobial resistance, non-communicable diseases, global health security and universal health coverage, among others—and provide insight into the fruitful collaboration between the Worl...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 17, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) Meeting - August 2013
The Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2001 ("MD-CARE Act"; P.L. 107-84) authorized the establishment of the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) to coordinate activities across NIH and with other Federal health programs and activities relevant to the various forms of muscular dystrophy. The MDCC is a Congressionally mandated committee designed to coordinate research activities across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and with other Federal health programs and activities relating to the various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne, myotonic, facioscap...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 20, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Screening Mammography: Science, Policy, and Politics - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Presented by: Diana B. Petitti, MD, MPH, Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State UniversityCategory: SpecialAired date: 07/24/2013 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 25, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: video
Screening Mammography: Science, Policy, and Politics - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The 2013 Annual Advances in Cancer Prevention Lecture will be given by Dr. Diana B. Petitti, widely regarded as one of the world's leading epidemiologic experts on hormones and disease. Her recent work has focussed on the applications of systematic review, meta-analysis and decision analysis to the formulation os health policy.
Dr. Petitti received her BA degree from Cornell University, her MD from Harvard Medical School, and her MPH from Berkeley School of Public Health. She has held positions with the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer, as a faculty member at the University of Cali...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 27, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) Meeting
The Muscular Dystrophy Community Assistance, Research, and Education Amendments of 2001 ("MD-CARE Act"; P.L. 107-84) authorized the establishment of the Muscular Dystrophy Coordinating Committee (MDCC) to coordinate activities across NIH and with other Federal health programs and activities relevant to the various forms of muscular dystrophy. The MDCC is a Congressionally mandated committee designed to coordinate research activities across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and with other Federal health programs and activities relating to the various forms of muscular dystrophy, including Duchenne, myotonic, facioscap...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 5, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Global Engagement for Mental Health
Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Neuropsychiatric disorders account for a significant proportion of the burden of non-communicable disease in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. Yet marked inequities in the financing of health services and the supply of human resources for mental health care are evident between countries and within countries. Global mental health research requires that investigators address questions of equity while acknowledging the global economic, political, and cultural interconnections that shape the experience of mental illness and the lives of people with mental illness. Consequently, resea...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 19, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Legislative Contacts Meeting - February 2013 (NIH Only)
To provide an overview of the expected changes for the 113th Congress.Air date: 2/27/2013 1:30:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 19, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Over the Life Course: The Integration of Research, Health Care, and Policy & The ACA and the Future of Health Care Research in the U.S
BSSR Lecture Series
"Over the Life Course: The Integration of Research, Health Care, and Policy"
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH
Neal Halfon, MD, MPH is director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities. He is a professor of pediatrics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, health policy and management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and public policy in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Halfon served as a member of the Board on Children, Youth and Families of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine from 2001-2006, and also served on the IOM/NRC Committ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 7, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
