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SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | November 12, 2025 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Long Paper Award Title: When Chatman Meets Chinese Rural Older People with Health Anxiety: From Life in the Round to Concentric Life Circles Authors: Lin Wang, Xinyi Wu, and Huajian Zhu, Chinese Academy of Science and Education Evaluation, Hangzhou Dianzi…

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | August 20, 2025 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards

Call for Submissions SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Paper & Poster Awards SIG-HLTH, ASIS&T’s Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, is pleased to open submissions for the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Long Paper Award, the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Short Paper Award, and the SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2025 Annual Meeting Poster Award. We define health broadly to encompass research…

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

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | June 6, 2025 | Comments Off on 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, they will critically examine how academic conferences often fail to meet accessibility…

Please Respond by EOD 2/27: ASIS&T SIG-HLTH Values Survey

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 19, 2025 | Comments Off on 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 19, the SIG-HLTH executive board met and drafted values.…

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2024 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 17, 2025 | Comments Off on 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 crashes in the United States, with speeding…

SIG-HLTH Best Health-Related ASIS&T 2023 Annual Meeting Paper and Poster Award Winners

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | November 3, 2023 | Comments Off on SIG-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…

2023 Annual Meeting SIG-HLTH Co-Sponsored Panel

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | August 22, 2023 | Comments Off on 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 Kaitlin Costello, Rutgers University, USA.  …

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HOW SIG-HLTH Stays a Healthy SIG!

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | April 17, 2016 | Comments Off on 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 (https://sighlth.wordpress.com/events/) you’ll notice our emphasis on…

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

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | March 19, 2015 | Comments Off on 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 is 4 Huntington Street Room 323 New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Please join…

Join Us to Work with Local and Student Chapters

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 12, 2015 | Comments Off on 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 the leadership of local chapters and student chapters –…

Sign Up for SIG-HLTH Listserv

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 12, 2015 | Comments Off on Sign Up for SIG-HLTH Listserv

We noticed a major problem with communication with our members is the lack of automated sign-in for our listserv. We have added all members to our listserv and you will be receiving our newsletters from now on. Please email Si Sun at sisun@rutgers.edu if you would like to sign up with a different email address.

Member Spotlight January 2015

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 12, 2015 | Comments Off on Member Spotlight January 2015

Laura M. Eisenmann Laura M. Eisenmann has extensive experience in global professional services firms delivering knowledge management solutions, developing digital knowledge products and databases, and organizing information for findability and reuse, including content architecture, taxonomy development, metadata management, search, and usability. She currently leads the Knowledge Management function at Health Advances, LLC, a strategy consulting firm advising…

Webinars for 2015

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | February 11, 2015 | Comments Off on Webinars for 2015

PLEASE FILL OUT OUR SHORT SURVEY BELOW We are planning a few webinars for the coming year, starting from February, 2015. The themes we planned are as follows: 1. Conversation between areas: Communicate patient work with clinical care. 2. Methodology: qualitative research and quantitative research methods in health informatics. We are looking for speakers and ideas on other…

Member Spotlight October 2014

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | December 23, 2014 | Comments Off on Member Spotlight October 2014

Emily Vardell, MLS Emily Vardell, MLS, is a Doctoral Student and Teaching Fellow at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests focus on health information behavior, particularly health insurance literacy and decision-making. As a Teaching Fellow, she has served as the instructor…

SIG-HLTH Member Dinner (Monday Nov. 3)

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | November 2, 2014 | Comments Off on SIG-HLTH Member Dinner (Monday Nov. 3)

Our dutch treat dinner is on: Monday Nov 3 8pm (we will meet at the registration desk at 8pm) Wild Ginger @ 1401 3rd Ave Seattle, WA 98101 (5 min walk from Sheraton) We thank Alexandra Fox for her great suggestions!

Toiletry Donation During ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | October 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Toiletry Donation During ASIS&T 2014 Annual Meeting

This year the SIG HLTH will be sponsoring a collection of donated toiletries. Bring any extra hotel toiletries (either from home or from your hotel) and place them in a box by registration. Shampoo, conditioner, lotion, and soap are encouraged. The SIG HLTH will take the donated toiletries to corresponding organizations. This is an easy…

Brochure Design Competition Results

By SIG-HLTH Webmaster | October 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Brochure Design Competition Results

We did not receive design submissions, so SIG HLTH officials designed a brochure. The prizes for the design competition will be allocated for future activities. Let us look forward to the printouts!