By bluerasberry on 2014-05-05
Wednesday 30 April to Friday 2 May I was in DC for a Choosing Wisely meetup. Part of it was hosted by ABIM Foundation and part was hosted by Consumer Reports. When I was there I met other people who work in health communications and we talked about how we get messages to people. One […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, social media, youth
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 2012-03-25
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
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 2011-10-19
I went to see Joanne Silberner at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation tonight. Silberner is an elite American journalist who reported public health stories, most notably for NPR. The title of her talk was “Global health and the media: what’s news and what’s not, and why.” The audience were statisticians in public health […]
Posted in education, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged computer, journalism, social media