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SIG-HLTH Webinar: Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces
SIG-HLTH Webinar: Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces Webinar Description This webinar, Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces, will feature Rhys Dreeszen Bowman and Leah Dudak, co-authors of Cripping Conferences: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Disability in Academia. Drawing from their personal and scholarly insights as disabled scholars,…
Read MorePlease Respond by EOD 2/27: ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Values Survey
Please Respond by EOD 2/27: ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Values Survey Dear SIG-HLTH members, All SIGs were tasked by ASIS&T leadership this month to develop a list of up to five values that characterize ASIS&T as an organization: its members, events, and staff. This activity is aligned with the development of ASIS&T’s next strategic plan. On Wednesday, February…
Read MoreSIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners
SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper Awards Title: Standardizing Vehicle Travel Speed Data for Road Safety Authors: Liliana Salas, College of Information Science and Arlie Adkins, College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture and the College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Abstract: In 2022, almost 50,000 people died in road…
Read MoreSIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners
SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Awards! SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper Award “What Is a Wave But 1000 Drops Working Together?”: The Role of Public Libraries…
Read More2023 Annual Meeting SIG-HLTH Co-Sponsored Panel
2023 Annual Meeting SIG-HLTH Co-Sponsored Panel SIG-HLTH is please to co-sponsor the panel “Building a Bigger Table: Food Research, Methods, Policy, and Action in Library and Information Science” for ASIST’s 2023 Annual Meeting. The panel features Xiaotong Du, Rutgers University, USA; Sarah Polkinghorne, RMIT University, Australia; Melissa Ocepek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; and…
Read More2019 ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Student Poster Award
2019 ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Student Poster Award Dear Colleagues, We hope you will consider applying for the 2019 ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Student Poster Award. To apply, inform the SIG-HLTH leadership team that you are a student and will be presenting a poster related to health informatics at ASIS&T 2019 by 1 October 2019. Members of the leadership team will then review…
Read MoreSIG-HLTH Activities at ASIS&T in Copenhagen
SIG-HLTH Activities at ASIS&T in Copenhagen Several SIG-HLTH members will be at ASIST’s annual meeting in Copenhagen! We hope you’ll join SIG-HLTH at the activities below at the conference: Join us at SIG-RUSH on Sunday, October 16th at 19:00 (7:00) Have dinner with vice-chair, Miraida Morales at Loft (http://timos.dk/loft/), email or tweet her for the details! Stop…
Read MoreHOW SIG-HLTH Stays a Healthy SIG!
HOW SIG-HLTH Stays a Healthy SIG! In St. Louis, at ASIST 2015, we hosted a toiletry drive for @LittleBitSTL. We did this to prevent waste but also to allow ASIST members to contribute to the city that so generously hosted our conference. Check out a photo of our donation here. If you look at our Events page…
Read MoreA Social Event Co-Sponsored BY ASIS&T NJ Chapter, RU Chapter, AND SIG-HLTH
A Social Event Co-Sponsored BY ASIS&T NJ Chapter, RU Chapter, AND SIG-HLTH ASIS&T NJ Chapter, RU Chapter, and SIG Health invite you to a social event for health information researchers. The event will be help on March 26, 6-8pm at the faculty lounge of the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. The address…
Read MoreJoin Us to Work with Local and Student Chapters
Join Us to Work with Local and Student Chapters We need volunteers to initiation communication with local and student chapters in our effort to enhance academic exchange and encourage future collaborations. This could be a great opportunity for us to strengthen personal connections with members of local ASIS&T organizations. We encourage volunteers to: – Contact…
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