Speeches and Presentations

Research!America leadership and board members often speak out on the need to advocate for more federal funding for health research.

July 19, 2021

American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, July 19, 2021. Opening General Session: Combatting Anti-Science Thinking. In this session, Mary Woolley, president and CEO of Research!America, led a conversation with Georges C. Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association and Bruce Gellin, Chief of Global Public Health Strategy, The Rockefeller Foundation. The panel addressed the disturbing trends in anti-science thinking and ongoing efforts within their organizations to address it. The panel shared specific ways colleges and schools of pharmacy, their faculty, and students can join with efforts to combat the anti-science movement. A recording of the discussion can be viewed here.

July 16, 2021

Mary Woolley presented to the Fogarty Global Health Fellows Orientation on the topic of "Global Decision Making: Winning Hearts and Minds for Research." Her presentation can be viewed here. 

April 26, 2021

Mary Woolley, Research!America President & CEO, spoke at the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures 2021 Virtual Tribute Luncheon. Her presentation is viewable here. 

April 22, 2021

Research!America President and CEO delivered a lecture in the Robert M. Bird Society Annual Lecture Series at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center Graduate College, "Prioritizing Science & Public Engagement to Drive Innovation & Outcomes." Her presentation can be viewed here. 

April 7, 2021

Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley presented at the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Dean's Leadership Seminar Series. View the presentation here.

 

March 5, 2021

Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley presented to the The University of Arizona College of Medicine (Tucson)'s 2021 Frontiers in Immunobiology & Immunopathogenesis Symposium. Her presentation is available here.

December 15, 2020

Research!America president and CEO Mary Woolley addressed the 30th Anniversary Scientific Meeting of the NIH Office of Women's Health Research with a presentation, "Meeting the Moment." Her presentation is available here. 

December 2, 2020

Research!America President & CEO Mary Woolley spoke at the 2020 Research Meeting of the Association of Academic Health Centers. The presentation, entitled, "Impact of COVID19: Creating the New Normal For Research," can be viewed here. 

November 10, 2020

Research!America president and CEO Mary Woolley addressed the Council of Graduate Schools in a presentation: "Impact of COVID19: Creating the New Normal for Research." You can view the presentation here. 

October 29, 2020

Research!America president and CEO Mary Woolley joined a distinguished panel for "Presidential Symposium: The Big Tent of Genetics and Genomics: Research, Translation and Advocacy" at the American Society for Human Genetics Virtual Meeting, October 29, 2020. View her presentation slides here. 

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You can change the image of things to come. But you can’t do it sitting on your hands … The science community should reach out to Congress and build bridges.
The Honorable John E. Porter