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By bluerasberry on 2012-02-16
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 2011-12-31
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 2011-11-30
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 2011-08-04
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 2011-06-29
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 2011-06-06
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 2011-05-11
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 2011-02-20
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
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-02
Nandan and I left our Mumbai friends and flew to Lucknow. We visited Imam Bara and the residency and the haunted house as before but all this was just a backdrop for planning our next moves. At Imam Bara we paid for a tour and were charged triple the price we were supposed to pay, […]
Posted in gay stuff, India, non-profit, tour