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Community Engagement Workshop (2024) Agenda

Day 1: July 24, 2024  |  9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

9:00 AM

Welcome and Introduction

Douglas Sheeley, Sc.D.
Acting Director
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
Office of the Director, NIH

9:15 AM

Keynote

Krystal Tsosie, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A.
Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University
Associate Director of the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center at ASU

10:00 AM

NIH Common Fund/CFDE Resources

George Papanicolaou, Ph.D.
Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Program Leader
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
Office of the Director, NIH

10:30 AM

Break

10:45 AM

Panel Discussion on How Data Policy (Privacy and Ethics) Impacts Historically Underserved Communities

Panelists:

  • Mitchell Lunn, M.D., M.A.S., FACP, FASN
    Associate Professor of Medicine (Nephrology) and of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Nyasha Chambwe, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
  • Krystal Tsosie, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A.
    Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University
    Associate Director of the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center at ASU

Moderator:

Rachel Britt, Ph.D.
Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Communications Team Leader
Office of Strategic Coordination, The Common Fund
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
Office of the Director, NIH

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Workshop Breakout Session on Community Engagement Strategies

These will be interactive sessions where attendees will have the opportunity to break out into small groups to address a series of questions. Virtual attendees will be able to participate in the discussion in virtual break out rooms.

Moderators:

  • Desiree Shantai Smith, M.P.H., Dr.Ph.
    Health Equity Research and Evaluation
  • Karriem Watson, DHSc., M.S., M.P.H.
    Chief Engagement Officer, NIH All of Us Research Program
  • Erin Beck, M.S.
    Biomedical Informatics Project Manager
    National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH
2:00 PM

Panel Discussion on Data Use and Accessibility

Panelists:

  • Frank Elavsky
    Research Assistant, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Seth Berke
    Research Assistant position at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Katherine Kim, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., FAMIA
    Adjunct Full Professor at University of California Davis, School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences
    Senior Scientist for Health at CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) at UC Berkeley

Moderator:

Maryam Zaringhalam, Ph.D.
Data Science and Open Science Officer in the National Library of Medicine’s Office of Strategic Initiatives, NIH

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

Workshop Breakout Session on Data Challenges and Barriers to Data Use

These will be interactive sessions where attendees will have the opportunity to break out into small groups to address a series of questions. Virtual attendees will be able to participate in the discussion in virtual break out rooms.

Moderators:

  • Lauren Amos, Ph.D.
    Deputy Area Director for State and Local Human Services, Mathematica
  • Samson Gebreab, Ph.D., M.Sc.
    Program Lead, AIM-AHEAD
    Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS)
    Office of the Director, NIH
  • Avi Ma’ayan, Ph.D.
    Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics
    Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
    Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics
4:15 PM

Closing Remarks

4:30 PM

Adjourn Day 1

 

Day 2: July 25, 2024  |  9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

9:00 AM

Panel Discussion on Training & Education Needs of the Data Community

Panelists:

  • Jenea Adams, M.S.
    Penn Presidential Ph.D. Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in Genomics and Computational Biology
    Founder and Executive Director of the Black Women in Computational Biology Network (BWCB)
  • Kevin Cassel, Dr.PH., M.P.H.
    Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement Office
    Associate Professor Population Sciences in the Pacific Program
    University of Hawaii Cancer Center
  • Zaki Sherif, Ph.D.
    Tenured Full Professor at Howard University College of Medicine and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine

Moderator:

Nandita Rahman
Director of Data Governance, Office of Data and Analytics, All of Us Research Program

10:00 AM

Two Concurrent Breakout Sessions

These will be interactive sessions where attendees will have the opportunity to break out into small groups to address a series of questions. Virtual attendees will be able to participate in the discussion in virtual break out rooms.

a. Workshop Breakout on Data Solutions to identified barriers from Day 1

Moderators:

  • Lauren Amos, Ph.D.
    Deputy Area Director for State and Local Human Services, Mathematica
  • Samson Gebreab, Ph.D., M.Sc.
    Program Lead, AIM-AHEAD
    Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS)
    Office of the Director, NIH
  • Avi Ma’ayan, Ph.D.
    Mount Sinai Endowed Professor in Bioinformatics
    Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
    Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

b. Workshop Breakout to discuss the immediate Training Needs and Supports of the Community

Moderators:

  • Rachel Britt, Ph.D.
    Strategic Planning, Evaluation, and Communications Team Leader
    Office of Strategic Coordination, The Common Fund
    Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
    Office of the Director, NIH
  • MacKenzie Brandes, M.B.A.
    Project Manager I, Metabolism Program, Diabetes
    Broad Institute
  • Noël Burtt
    Director, Operations & Development, Diabetes Research & Knowledge Portals
    Program in Medical and Population Genetics
    Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
11:20 AM

Break

11:30 AM

Workshop Closing Presentation & Wrap Up

Chris Kinsinger, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Catalytic Data Resources
Office of Strategic Coordination
Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI)
Office of the Director, NIH

12:30 PM

Adjourn Day 2

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