By bluerasberry on 2013-06-29
Someone at Eli Lilly and Company was contacting Wikipedians about a partnership between Lilly and Wikipedia. Some people may not know that Wikipedia is a nonprofit project stewarded by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, and that since its founding it has taken a strong stance against hosting external advertising and against entities with a conflict of […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Eli Lilly and Company, global health, Wikidata
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-29
A Lilly person was visiting Wikipedia and I wrote this post for their blog. See the original publication on the Clinical Open Innovation site. A Unique View on Improving Communication With Clinical Trial Participants Lane has participated in more than 40 clinical trials as a healthy volunteer, as well as worked on the research team […]
Posted in clinical research, research, rights | Tagged bioethics, clinical trial, informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2013-05-14
The 2013 conference for the HIV Vaccination Trials Network (HVTN) was from May 7-9 in Washington DC. I attended. My friends from the Seattle CAB Victoria Chinnel and Lisa White came to the event. The big news was that only one week before HVTN 505, a major phase II vaccination trial, had just ended all […]
Posted in clinical research, DC, HIV, research, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HIV vaccine, HVTN
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-22
Saturday and Sunday April 20-21 I attended the annual conference of Students for Free Culture held at the New York Law School. At the end of the conference there was an organizational meeting in which the board proposed and got approval to change the name of the organization from “Students for Free Culture” to “Free […]
Posted in computer, legal, New York City, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-28
On his blog, statistician for the Wikimedia Analytics team Erik Zachte asked, “Which single Wikimedia metric would inspire you most?” Here is my response to his blog post. I want page views for specific sets of articles, and I want this data presented in such a way to call for people to respond to it. […]
Posted in research, Wikipedia | Tagged metrics, statistics
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-14
I was riding the train home with John Santa, director of health ratings at Consumer Reports, on the night of Sunday 10 November. I asked him for an example of how conflict of interest happens with doctors. He prefaced his story by explaining the premise that there is something about human nature which causes unavoidable […]
Posted in drug, education, presentation, research | Tagged conference, conflict of interest, John Santa
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-05
The 2012 Seattle HVTN conference was from Monday 29 – Wednesday 31 October. I went to Seattle for that and to see friends. I flew to Portland on Friday 26 October to attend the Wiki Loves Libraries event organized by Jason Moore, user:Another Believer, on Saturday 27 October. We went out for breakfast, did the […]
Posted in clinical research, HIV, legal, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Adbusters, Brian Glanz, Christopher Sheats, coffee, conference, HVTN, Jacob Caggiano, Lisa White, Open Knowledge Foundation, Patrick, Patrick Earley, Victoria Chinnell
By bluerasberry on 2012-06-02
Wednesday 30 May – Friday 1 June the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) held their summer full group meeting in DC, as they always do. This was the first time I attended the DC meeting. I had planned to attend even when I was in Seattle but then I got this job at Consumer Reports […]
Posted in DC, health, HIV, presentation, research, rights | Tagged conference, HVTN, social media
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-13
Richard Knipel ([[user:Pharos]]) took me to the Museum of Modern Art the night of Friday 11th May. On Wednesday 9 May I was at a conference at Consumer Reports for the Choosing Wisely program, and at this conference I met collaborators in the program and came to understand what the program would mean to them. […]
Posted in art, health, museum, New York City, research, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Choosing Wisely, coffee, Consumer Reports, Museum of Modern Art
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-25
Peggy Porter spoke representing the Consortium Biospecimen Resource (CRS), which is a biobank housed at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She said that the organization has good procedures in place to conduct informed consent, collect specimens, and manage the sharing of specimens to researchers, but in her organization and in the industry in general there […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, presentation, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged net generation, social media