SIG-HLTH Events

Upcoming Events

Please join us for a SIG HLTH social get-together at ASIS&T 2025 on Saturday, November 15th.

Venue: Surreal Global Kitchen (address: 2117 Crystal Drive, Crystal City / Arlington).
Meeting time: Meet in hotel lobby at 6:15 PM, walk to restaurant; dinner 6:30 PM – until/whenever.
Format: Dutch-treat (everyone pays their own way).
Open to: Anyone (not restricted to current SIG members) - an RSVP will be used to estimate attendees. Please RSVP by 11:59 PM EST on 11/11.

Hope to see you there!

Past Events:

SIG-HLTH prides itself on contributing to ASIST’s continuing education benefits for members and has sponsored three webinars in the last year in support of this effort. For more information on the webinar, “Aligning Consumer Health Informatics Tools with Patient Work: Strategies for Fieldwork in Home and Community Settings,” please contact Emily Vardell (evardell at email dot unc dot edu). For more information on SIG-HLTH’s Mixed Methods webinars, please select the links below:

Mixed Methods Part One: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/mixed-methods-research-webinar/

Mixed Methods Part Two: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/sig-hlth-webinar-part-2-mixed-studies-reviews/

SIG-HLTH Webinar: Cripping Conferences – Rethinking Accessibility and Participation in Academic Spaces

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | June 6, 2025

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, they will critically examine how academic conferences often fail to meet accessibility…

2023 Annual Meeting SIG-HLTH Co-Sponsored Panel

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | August 22, 2023

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 Kaitlin Costello, Rutgers University, USA. …

SIG-HLTH Activities at ASIS&T in Copenhagen

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | October 13, 2016

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 by our SIG planning session on…

A Social Event Co-Sponsored BY ASIS&T NJ Chapter, RU Chapter, AND SIG-HLTH

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | March 19, 2015

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 is 4 Huntington Street Room 323 New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Please join…