Taubman Health Sciences Library Blog- Blog Retired
- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Category Archives: Lectures/symposia
Webinar on insurance marketplace experience
From the Commonwealth Fund: Join a Commonwealth Fund–sponsored webinar on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces, hosted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers & the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. Experts working with the three marketplace … Continue reading
Webinar: Integrating mixed methods in health services & delivery system research
From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): Register now for a webinar scheduled about how mixed-methods research offers powerful tools for investigating complex processes and systems in health care services and delivery. The webinar, which focuses on work by … Continue reading
Using information disclosure to achieve policy goals: Toxics release inventory & shale gas fracking
The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) at the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has announced a panel discussion “Using Information Disclosure to Achieve Policy Goals: How Experience with the Toxics Release Inventory Can Inform … Continue reading
Exquisite Corpses: Our Dialogue with the Dead in Museums
As part of the “It’s Alive! Re-Discovering Institutions of Living Collections” theme of the Museum Studies Program, Robert Hicks, director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Library, College of Physicians of Philadelpha, will present the talk, “Exquisite Corpses: Our Dialogue with the Dead in Museums,” … Continue reading
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The Grocery Gap: Unequal Access to Healthy Foods in Southeast Michigan
Food insecurity is very high in parts of Southeast Michigan. This has led some to describe parts of the region as “food deserts.” But is this term appropriate? The Institute for Research on Women & Gender is sponsoring a talk by … Continue reading
Hearsay or Fact: A Symposium on the Communication of the Affordable Care Act
“Hearsay or Fact,” a free symposium sponsored by the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation, the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan, & the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation is scheduled for Monday, November 4, from 1:00 to 5:00 … Continue reading
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Celebrate Open Access Week, October 21-27
Open Access Week highlights projects, research, and policies at U-M that allow the public to access and reuse the results of scholarly research online. The University of Michigan is celebrating Open Access Week (October 21-27, 2013) with a series of presentations at the … Continue reading
Video from this year’s Risk Science Symposium with Mark Lynas now available
The Risk Science Center has announced that the video of this year’s Bernstein Symposium is available online. If you weren’t able to attend, it was a fascinating lecture and panel discussion: Why Is It Hard to Pivot Based on Science? … Continue reading
Lecture today: Global Water Issues and U.S.-Japan Cooperation
Kazunari Yoshimura will provide a general overview of global water issues and discuss the possibility of U.S.-Japan cooperation in terms of water treatment, water security, and disaster prevention. Mr. Yoshimura will also go into detail on waste water treatment technologies … Continue reading
Public health’s wicked problems: Can InfoVis save lives?
From the CDC’s Office of Infectious Diseases: Call for submissions Public health is charged with assessing current and emerging health threats and issues, developing effective population-based policies and interventions to address these problems, and monitoring delivery and outcomes … Continue reading
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