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Virtual only
2025-05-15T20:00:00Z 2025-05-15T16:00:00Z Event Information
An NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health annual signature event, the Vivian W. Pinn Symposium, honors the first full-time director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, Vivian W. Pinn, M.D. The symposium is held every year during National Women’s Health Week.
This year’s symposium, “Advancing Data-Driven Innovation for the Health of Women," focuses on how data science skills, resources, and training can build capacity for interdisciplinary data analyses.
The objectives of the symposium are:
- Data Dissemination: Highlight quantitative and qualitative federal data resources that can be used to understand women’s health in context.
- Data Literacy: Familiarize attendees with key concepts in data science and social determinants of health.
- Real-World Science: Highlight applications of data science-based applications to community-centered projects.
- Data Privacy: Review key issues and opportunities related to data privacy and accessibility.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 p.m. | Opening Remarks | Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO Director, ORWH |
| 12:15 p.m. | Flash Talks: NIH Data Resources and Repositories | NIH Program Staff |
| 1:00 p.m. | Capstone Speaker: Advancing Data Innovations for Health Improvements: Possibilities and Pitfalls | Raquel Hill, Ph.D. Chair of Computer and Information Sciences and Professor, Spelman College Introduced by Lauren Fordyce, Ph.D. Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, NIH |
| 1:35 p.m. | Q&A | Moderator: Dina Paltoo, Ph.D., M.P.H. National Library of Medicine, NIH |
| 1:45 p.m. | Break | |
| 1:55 p.m. | Overview of Panel Session and Speaker Introductions | Jenna Norton, Ph.D., M.P.H. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH |
| 2:00 p.m. | From Story to Data, From Data to Healing: Data Sovereignty for Native Women | Melissa Buffalo, M.S. CEO, American Indian Cancer Foundation |
| 2:15 p.m | Fostering Data-Driven Decisions for Patients and Caregivers | Rochelle Prosser, RN, CLNC Founder, Orchid Healthcare Solutions |
| 2:30 p.m. | Advancing Precision Women’s Health: Empowering Impacted Populations to Transform Women’s Health through AI and Data Innovation | Alex Carlisle, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman, and CEO National Accelerator for Discovery in Precision Health |
| 2:45 p.m. | Computational Biology for Women's Health | Liat Shenhav, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology; Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology NYU Grossman School of Medicine |
| 3:00 p.m. | Data Privacy and Data Transparency: Ethical, Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Issues | Pilar Ossorio, Ph.D., J.D. Professor of Law and Bioethics University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 3:15 p.m. | Panel Discussion | Moderator: Vivian Ota Wang, Ph.D. Deputy Director, ORWH |
| 3:45 p.m. | Closing Remarks | Vivian W. Pinn, M.D. Former Director, ORWH Senior Scientist Emerita NIH Fogarty International Center Introduced by Janine Clayton, M.D. |
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