National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR)
NYAM/NLM Health Policy/Public Health Forum Slide Presentations
The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) cosponsored a health policy and public health forum, Accessing Useful Information: Challenges in Health Policy and Public Health at the NYAM on March 23, 1998. Several of the slide presentations can be viewed by clicking on the author links below.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
Registration & Continental Breakfast
Welcome
Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
President, The New York Academy of Medicine
Conference Overview
Roz D. Lasker, M.D.
Director, Division of Public Health
The New York Academy of Medicine
Session I: Information Needs in Health Policy & Public Health
Results of Recent Studies
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Public Health Practice Program Office
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
The Retrieval Problem: Knowledge Bases and Search Engines
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
Available Resources for Retrieving Public Health & Health Policy Information
Neil Rambo, M.L.S.
Associate Director
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region
University of Washington
Marjorie A. Cahn, M.A.
Head, National Information Center on Health Services Research
National Library of Medicine
Audience/Speaker Discussion of Information Retrieval Issues
Luncheon
Session II: Quality of Information in Health Policy & Public Health
Problems in the Field
Brad Gray, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Health and Science Policy
The New York Academy of Medicine
Ronald Bialek, M.P.P.
Executive Director
Public Health Foundation
Useful Quality Criteria
Jana Bradley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Indiana University School of Library and Information Science
Audience/Speaker Discussion of Quality Issues
Session III: Meeting the Need: Roles for Library, Government Agencies, and Informatics Communities
Betsy Humphreys, M.L.S.
Deputy Associate Director
National Library of Medicine
Dave Ross, Sc.D.
Assistant Director
INPHO/Public Health Practice Program Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Shannah Koss
Program Manager, Government and Healthcare
IBM Worldwide Healthcare Industry
Reception
Proceedings of this forum are available in the Bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine: A Journal of Urban Health 1998 Dec;75(4):777-895
