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
Managing Depression, Anxiety, and Suicide Prevention
Depression, anxiety, and burnout can affect anyone and are high in health care workers. Suicide affects people of all ages and demographic groups. This special Clinical Center Town Hall will discuss managing depression and anxiety and suicide prevention, as well as the help that is available and the wellness resources at the Clinical Center.Air date: 12/7/2023 2:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
(Un)fit to Nurse: Efficiency and Discipline at the Philippine General Hospital, 1898 – 1916
On August 29, 1916, a strike of over 100 student nurses erupted at the Philippine General Hospital, placing its operations at a standstill for two days. The student nurses rallied around the suicide of fellow student Florentina Papa, alleging the disciplinary culture of the hospital was at fault. Tensions between the students and the administrators, however, had been escalating since May when the director of the hospital mandated more intensive physical training into the curriculum to improve the efficiency of nursing services. This presentation explores the strike amidst the formative years of Philippine nursing under the...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 24, 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
Suicide Prevention for LGBTQ+ Youth
In celebration of Pride Month, this interactive hybrid symposium will feature a keynote speaker and moderated panel discussion focusing on the latest interventions, what research still needs to be developed, and resources with respect to Suicide Prevention for LGBTQ+ Youth.Air date: 6/30/2023 3:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
“ We ’ re here, we ’ re queer, get used to it ” : Struggles and Stories to Be Heard for Today and Tomorrow
Starting with two documents in the archival collections of the NLM, Dr. Sell will examine how early sexual and gender minority (SGM) Americans worked to normalize the presence of SGMs in society. Ralph Werther (1874-?) hoped that his writings might render “ nature ’ s step-children ” lives more tolerable and he “ offered no apology ” for their publication. Specifically, he hoped to repeal laws under which SGMs were incarcerated, put a stop to a continuous string of murders of these stepchildren, and save “ hundreds ” of these “ melancholy sexual intermediates from suicide. ” In addition to these objec...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Mental healthcare can get a boost from telehealth
Virtual care has a big role to play in enabling better mental and behavioral health. Dr. Holly Dubois, chief clinical officer at Mindstrong, offers a look at a special telemedicine program designed to prevent suicide among veterans. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Clinical Center Grand Rounds: The Changing Landscape Of Youth Suicide: What We Know, What We Don ’ t Know, And Where We Go From Here
The Changing Landscape Of Youth Suicide: What We Know, What We Don ’ t Know, And Where We Go From HereFor more information go tohttps://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmlAir date: 11/2/2022 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 27, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Ethics Grand Rounds: How Should We Train Fellows in Medical Aid-in-Dying?
Ethics Grand Rounds
How should we teach medical aid-in-dying to trainees?
Medical aid-in-dying (aka physician-assisted suicide) is controversial. It is also legal in some states and DC, but illegal in other states. This situation raises an important challenge for training programs. To what extent should training programs teach medical aid-in-dying to trainees? Should trainees be able to opt out of receiving this training? Should trainers be able to opt out of providing it?For more information go tohttps://cc.nih.gov/about/news/grcurrent.htmAir date: 10/6/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 30, 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
Meru says digital health app can help prevent physician suicide
A digital behavioral health app can interrupt the downward spiral that leads 400 physicians each year to take their own lives, claims Meru Health Vice President Emily Hines. Add link here. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Online clinic treating physician depression and burnout
Meru Health ' s digital solution aims to interrupt the downward spiral of depression and anxiety that could lead to suicide, says Emily Hine, VP of business development. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine: Suicide and Depression in Time of COVID-19
Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought profound stress into our lives — from social isolation and hectic work schedules, to grief over the loss of those who have died from COVID-19 and the inability to fully gather together to mourn them. Populations with underlying depression and addiction disorders are particularly vulnerable to self-harm during these trying times.
While depression, suicide and COVID clearly are associated in terms of public health, are they also linked mechanistically, particularly in regard to neurobiology? Are there genetic factors or biomarkers for susceptibility? Th...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series: Suicide and Depression in Time of COVID-19
Suicide and Depression in Time of COVID-19Nora Volkow, MD NIDA and Carlos Zarate, MD NIMHFor more information go tohttps://demystifyingmedicine.od.nih.gov/Air date: 4/13/2021 4:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Computational Analysis of Language and the Assessment of Suicide Risk
This talk, to be given remotely in the middle of a pandemic, will be about a problem that already existed long prior to COVID-19 as a kind of international pandemic in its own right. Suicide has a worldwide death toll approaching 800,000 people per year worldwide, and in the U.S. in 2016 it became the second leading cause of death among those aged 10-34. Now compounding these existing problems is an “ echo pandemic ” of suicide and mental illness emerging in the wake of COVID-19, as people struggle with isolation, stress, and sustained disruptions of day to day life. I'll talk about computational linguistics research r...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 4, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
