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By bluerasberry on March 12, 2012
On three of us members of the HIV Vaccine Research Unit Community Advisory Board made a video to inform potential new members about what it would mean for them to join our group. The video was to have two purposes – to introduce HIV vaccine research and to introduce the concept of layman meeting in [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, drug, education, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged HIV vaccine, videography
By bluerasberry on February 16, 2012
On Monday 13 February Sharon Terry of Genetic Alliance was in Seattle and gave a talk at the Public Health Cafe. The Public Health Cafe is a community science presenation organized by the UW Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Science. I love it! I had seen Sharon’s YouTube video explaining why she got into the [...]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, non-profit, Open access, presentation, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged Genetic Alliance, Jon Izant, Public Health Cafe, Sage Bionetworks, Sharon Terry
By bluerasberry on December 31, 2011
Brian Glanz is one of the organizers of Open Science Federation. The OSF is a nonprofit organization which has the goal of making science information more accessible, and historically it has done that by connecting scientists with online technology. There is a core team involved including Brian which has been together since 1999, and they [...]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, rights, Seattle | Tagged NWABR, Open Science Federation
By bluerasberry on November 30, 2011
I am all about biobanks now. A biobank is a type of biorepository which stores human biological specimens long-term for future research. I have been having encounters with biobanks for years and always had questions about them, and I have even had some conflicts with researchers on this topic. Recently I met someone who develops [...]
Posted in biobanks, non-profit, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged NWABR, publishing, social media
By bluerasberry on August 4, 2011
Yesterday I got a letter from someone at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She is a PR person who was editing her organization’s Wikipedia article, and since I was watching that article, I immediately knew she was changing it. I wrote to her offering to help her develop the article, and she sent me back a [...]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged ad campaign
By bluerasberry on June 29, 2011
Recently I met a lot of leaders in public and global health. The World Affairs Council is a Seattle non-profit which organizes for leaders from other countries to come to Seattle and give presentations. Global Health Nexus promotes talks about health issues in Seattle. WAC definitely does a lot more events. On June 6 WAC [...]
Posted in health, non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference, politician, royal
By bluerasberry on June 6, 2011
I attended the June 4 open house to celebrate the opening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation building opening across the street from the Seattle Center. This is a 500 million dollar building whose employees have the responsibility to manage the spending of 3 billion dollars a year to improve the human condition. The [...]
Posted in education, encounter, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on May 11, 2011
I have been trying to learn some Bengali sign language and it has been fun for me to try to communicate with Abdul. I feel bad about regional sign languages; they seem like languages with little history or cultural attachment and I get this idea in my hide that there should be a big international [...]
Posted in India, non-profit | Tagged language
By bluerasberry on February 20, 2011
I wanted to visit the site of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster. I also wanted to visit whatever major NGO was working with the survivors. This is why we went to Bhopal, the capitol of Madhya Pradesh. I expected that affected people were still living in the area. I also expected that these people had [...]
Posted in education, health, India, legal, non-profit | Tagged death, pollution, school, toxic waste