Research!America forums bring together leaders in government, industry, academia, patient advocacy organizations and the media to engage in dialogue concerning key research issues.
2007
Bridging the Sciences: Investment and Innovation
February 1, 2007. National Press Club in Washington, DC.
Keynote: Arden
Bement Jr., PhD, NSF director.
Partner: Abbott
2006
Research: The Risks, the Rewards and
the Returns-a Florida
Perspective
November 28, 2006.
The Tampa Club in Tampa, Florida.
Keynote: Elias Zerhouni, MD, director National Institutes of
Health
Partners: Novartis, University
of South Florida
Personalized Medicine: From Promise to Practice
September 19, 2006.
The George Washington University
in Washington, DC.
Keynote: Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, director National
Human Genome Research Institute
Partner: Roche
2005
The Media, Public Policy and Oklahoma's Health Needs
January 20, 2005. Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Remarks: Karen Goraleski,
Research!America
Partner: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Making Prevention Research News!
March 1, 2005. Boston University
School of Public Health
Remarks: Michael Botticelli, assistant commissioner of
substance abuse services at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Partners: Join Together, a project of the Boston University School
of Public Health, Massachusetts Department of Public Health and The Medical
Foundation.
Making Healthy Headlines: A Media
Science Forum for Researchers and Journalists
March 22, 2005.
University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Keynote: Carol Krucoff, founding editor, Health Section, The
Washington Post,
Partner: University
of North Carolina School of Public Health,
Chapel Hill.
Making Healthy Headlines:
Prevention Research and Public Health
April 5, 2005. University of Oklahoma's
College of Public
Health in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma.
Remarks: Joseph Ferretti, PhD, senior vice president and
provost, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Harrison Spencer,
MD, MPH, president, Association of Schools of Public Health.
Partner: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Risks of Obesity: The Latest in Medical Research
April 28, 2005. North Carolina Biotechnology
Center in Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina.
Moderator: Karen Goraleski,
Research! America
Partner: The North
Carolina Association for Biomedical Research.
Three Sentences or Less: Communicating Public Health
Research in an Era of Headline News.
June 2005. The Johns
Hopkins University
Bloomberg School
of Public Health in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Remarks: William Bronrott, member, House of Delegates in Montgomery County, Maryland
Partners: The Johns
Hopkins University
Bloomberg School
of Public Health, JHU
Center for Injury
Research and Policy and JHU Office of Communications and Public Affairs..
Making Healthy Headlines
August 10, 2005. Portland, Oregon.
Keynote: Carolyn Clancy, MD, director Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality
Partners: U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health, Oregon Health & Science
University, OHSU School of Medicine's
Department of Family Medicine and OHSU
Center for Women's Health
2004
Partners in Finding Better Ways to Protect and Promote Your Health: Academia, Industry & Government was October 25, 2004, at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.
Transforming Medicine: Accelerating
the Impact of Scientific Discovery on Patient Care
Research!America presented a research partners forum on March 5, 2004, in
partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth Medical School,
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Friends of Cancer Research and Norris
Cotton Cancer Center.
View the April 14, 2004, media/science forum Communicating Prevention Research online. The University of Washington hosted this forum.
A Research!America Prevention Research Initiative media/science forum was held in Mississippi in partnership with the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program.
Ceci Connolly, national staff writer for The Washington Post, spoke to Arizona residents at a media/science forum. Read more.
The media/science forum Public Understanding of the Ethics of Stem Cell Research was held at Portland State University's Smith Memorial Center.
The media/science forum Public Understanding of the Ethics of Stem Cell Research was held at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.
2003
Research Partners for Our Nation's Health: Academia, Industry &
Government
A research partners forum with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center was November 10, 2003.
NIH Colorado Research Day: Research Partners for Our Nation's Health was at the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Center at Fitzsimons on February 13, 2003.
Research Partners for Our Nation's Health: Industry, Academia &
Government
A Research Partners Forum with the University of Michigan Medical School was
Tuesday, June 18, 2002.
A Discussion on Pain in America: Prevalence, Treatment and State of Research
A media/science forum with the Harvard University School of Public Health.
Communicating Nursing Research to the Public-a dialogue in collaboration with the Friends of the National Institutes of Nursing Research.