(via Britt Fagerheim, Utah State University)
Please join the ACRL Science & Technology Section Government Information Committee for an online discussion, “Government Public Health Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, with three health sciences speakers, who will be discussing how they are sharing information and providing access to data during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Where: Online via Zoom
When: Thursday, August 6 – 3:00 PM CDT
Registration (required, but no cost to attend): here
The speakers will cover the following topics.
- responding to clinical, educator and researcher requests about testing, treatment, training, and access to and use of COVID-19 data sets
- challenges of providing information and data about COVID-19 – recommendations as to how librarians can support researchers and students with government health/medical information and data
- how a federal agency is providing access to information for consumers, healthcare professionals and the pharmaceutical industry
The speakers are:
- Zoe Pettway Unno, Ph.D., MLIS, Network of the National Library of Medicine
- Renu Lal, Pharm-D, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Joseph Nicholson, MLIS, MPH, CPH, New York University Langone Health & Grossman School of Medicine