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Events and Announcements
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[Register] OBSSR Director's Webinar with Dr. Stanton Glantz—9/18
Join OBSSR and Stanton A. Glantz, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, on Tuesday, September 18, at 2:00 p.m. ET for a director's webinar on “Packaging color research by tobacco companies: the pack as a product characteristic.” Tobacco companies use color on cigarette packaging and labeling to communicate brand imagery, diminish health concerns, and as a replacement for prohibited descriptive words ("light" and "mild") to make misleading claims about reduced risks. Dr. Glantz analyzed previously secret tobacco industry documents to identify additional ways in which cigarette companies tested and manipulated pack colors to affect consumers' perceptions of the cigarettes' flavor and strength. Register Today
Advances in Child Development and Behavior Speaker Series—9/25
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development invites you to an upcoming Advances in Child Development and Behavior Speaker Series presentation:
Dr. Tonya Palermo, Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Director of the Pediatric Pain & Sleep Innovations Lab at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, will give a presentation titled “Innovations in Behavioral and Psychological Treatment of Pediatric Chronic Pain,” on Tuesday, September 25, from noon to 1:00 p.m. (6710B Rockledge Drive, room 1417).
Registration Not Required
[Open Meeting] NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee—10/5
Please join the next NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR CC) open meeting on Friday, October 5, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on NIH’s campus (Rockledge II, room 9112/9116) or online (WebEx access code: 628 548 199, password: gWZPDbr4). Representatives from NIH Institutes and Centers will meet to discuss behavioral and social sciences-relevant topics. Add to Calendar
Webinar Recording: Conversational Agents to Improve Quality of Life in Palliative Care
The July Director’s Webinar recording, featuring guest presenter Michael Paasche-Orlow M.D., M.A., M.P.H., Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, is now available. Dr. Paasche-Orlow’s team designed and evaluated a series of interactive Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) systems. In this session, he described attributes and design features of ECA systems with a focus on the current system as deployed with six content modules (symptoms, exercise, meditation, spiritual needs, advance care planning, and storytelling). Dr. Paasche-Orlow also discussed early experiences with system utilization and the nurse alert workstation. Go There Now
[Register] 11th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I)—12/3-5
Registration is open for the 11th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health (D&I), to be held December 3 through 5, 2018, at the Renaissance Washington, D.C. This conference, co-hosted by the NIH and AcademyHealth, helps realize the full potential of evidence to optimize health and health care by bridging the gap between research, practice, and policy. By outlining the priorities in the field, the Science of D&I Conference aims to ensure that evidence is used to inform decisions that will improve the health of individuals and communities. Register Now
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