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2 events,Healthy Aging Month is an annual observance month designed to focus national attention on the positive aspects of growing older. The main objective is to encourage local-level Healthy Aging events that promote taking personal responsibility for one’s health. Join public health leaders as they examine their role in providing the leadership to improve high school graduation rates and dismantling the policies and practices that undermine educational success and health. |
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Note: This webcast is for AHCJ members, so you will need to have your login and password to participate. |
2 events,Researchers will weigh the role of food literacy and marketing on consumers’ behavior when it comes to eating and nutrition at this two-day Institute of Medicine workshop in Washington, D.C., titled “How Do Communications and Marketing Impact Consumer Knowledge and Behavior?” The workshop will look at the impact of such communications on food choices as well as the role of science-based messaging. |
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2 events,The Coalition on Human Needs holds a webinar ahead of the Census Bureau’s annual poverty data release to discuss how to quickly find and use national, state and local data. The webinar will give you step-by-step instructions to find the information you need, including trends over time and comparisons to other states. |
4 events,As leaders in the research and practice of digital storytelling, we established this conference to focus on innovative digital techniques to tell stories in order to improving health outcomes. The conference brings together an array of practitioners in research, communication, digital media, storytelling, health promotion and more to share and discover tactics to promote better health outcomes across the board. USCA is the largest AIDS-related gathering in the U.S., bringing together thousands of workers representing all sectors and every all front of the war against this disease—from case managers and physicians,to public health workers and advocates, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) and policy-makers. They come to build national support networks, exchange the latest information and learn cutting-edge tools to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS. Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers focused on health in cities in the United States and worldwide. Goal is to work on urban places and health, generate novel ideas for research, and stimulate debate on policy implications. |
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2 events,An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine will conduct a study to explore how the education of health professionals is addressing the social determinants of health in and with communities. The committee will hold a meeting that is free and open to the public. |
3 events,The major report, called the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement, will include the nation’s overall poverty rate for 2014 as well as how many people lack health insurance.
A vaccine against Ebola has been successfully tested in Africa. Will it be effective or will the virus mutate and become an even bigger threat? |
2 events,In conjunction with the NIH Research Festival”‹, the Library’s open house will feature a demonstration of the data visualization touch screen provided by the NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science. This touch screen is a tool that can help drive your team’s research creativity. In addition, two panels of outside experts will discuss editing, scholarly publishing, and open access issues, and provide recommendations to help improve your opportunity for successful publication. |
4 events,Science informs the decisions that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration makes every day about a wide range of products, from foods to complex medical devices to life-saving drugs. On Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, the FDA will hold its fourth Science Writers Symposium, a special event intended to engage and inform science and health journalists about how the agency is applying scientific approaches to critical public health issues. National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day focuses on the challenging issues facing the aging population with regards to HIV prevention, testing, care and treatment. In addition, there is an increased need for prevention, research, and data targeting the aging population, medical understanding of the aging process and its impact on HIV/AIDS. |
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2 events,Consumer Reports and the California Department of Insurance will demonstrate a new online tool for consumers seeking information about health care prices and quality ratings. |
2 events,The 1999 report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System exposed the issue of patient safety in health care and was the first in a series of reports from the Institute of Medicine’s Health Care Quality Initiative to assess and improve the nation’s quality of care. A new report in that series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines inaccurate or delayed diagnoses — known as diagnostic errors — in health care and provides recommendations on how to improve diagnosis and reduce diagnostic errors. |
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2 events,The Commonwealth Fund will release findings from its latest Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey of more than 4,800 adults on the affordability of marketplace health insurance plans. The survey addresses who can afford these plans and who struggles to pay for them, what matters most to individuals people shopping for plans (costs or network providers), who is buying and who is not. |
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2 events,More than 5,500 ear, nose, and throat physicians and head and neck surgeons will gather to share the latest research and clinical advances from across all areas of the otolaryngology specialty. |
4 events,National Rural Health Association holds two back-to-back conferences in Kansas City, Mo. The first, its 14th Rural Health Clinic Conference Sept. 29 – Sept. 30, will look at telemedicine, veterans’ health and other issues. The second, Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, focuses on Critical Access Hospitals. This webinar, hosted by the American Dental Association Health Policy Institute, will examine findings of a new state-by-state analysis of dental care utilization in 2005 and 2013 among Medicaid and privately insured adults and children. |
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The trio of experts will also offer insights from recent data on those characteristics in residents ages 20 to 29, known as millennials, and how that group’s demographics is impacting the current and future U.S. population. Reporters will learn more about how to find the latest trends in U.S. demographics to spark larger discussions about demographics, millennial, race, marriage and population trends. Susan Heavey, AHCJ’s topic leader for social determinants of health care, will moderate the webcast. This event is exclusively for AHCJ members. |
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1 event,Th International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics will bring more than 7,000 obstetricians and gynecologists to Vancouver to address issues affecting women’s health and to discuss the key actions needed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. |
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In West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, more than 12,000 people were infected and 6,476 died. Almost 3,000 people were quarantined and more than 10 died in the recent MERS outbreak in Asia. What happens next time?