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Federal Agencies

  • AHRQ's Annual Conference - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ))  - This website contains presentations from AHRQ conferences, beginning in 2007.
  • Medpac Meetings - The Commission meets publicly in Washington, DC to discuss Medicare issues and policy questions and to develop and approve its reports and recommendations to the Congress. All meetings are held at the Ronald Reagan Building, The International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC.
  • NCI Calendar of Scientific Meetings - (National Cancer Institute, NIH (NCI))  - NCI meetings and conferences can be found in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Calendar of Events (Yellow Sheet).
  • VA Comparative Effectiveness Research - (Health Services Research and Development Service, Veterans Administration (HSR&D))  - Meeting held in September 2009. Contains agenda and links to speaker bios.

Associations and Organizations

  • American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) - ASIS&T conferences attract members from virtually every profession. Lawyers, bankers, electronic and print publishers, government, business, librarians, engineers, social scientists, information managers, computer scientists, and many others are a part of ASIS&T, leading the information field to the next horizon.
  • CHP/PCOR Calendar of Events - (Stanford University)  - This series of seminars and lectures on health policy and health-services research topics are generally free and open to the public.
  • Health Data Initiative Forum IV: The Health Datapalooza - (Health Data Initiative (HDI))  - June 3-4, 2013, Washington, DC. Annual national conference to liberate health data and foster the effective use of health data by companies, startups, academics, government agencies, and individuals.
  • June 2013 Stakeholder Symposium - (Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum USA)  - The 2013 Symposium, will take place in Baltimore, MD on June 22, 2013 and will focus on progress to date building learning health systems to improve patient outcomes.
  • Meetings & Events - (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) US)  - A list of upcoming meetings and events
  • National Health Impact Assessment Meeting: 2nd Annual - (National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI))  - This meeting, held on September 24 - 26, 2013 in Washington, D.C. is aimed at policymakers, public health professionals, HIA practitioners, community-based organizations, researchers, decision makers from non-health agencies who might use or rely on the results of an HIA, such as planning, transportation, housing, agriculture, energy, environment and education, and others with an interest in learning more about HIAs. It will also offer a special, one-day summit tailored specifically to policymakers.
  • Public Health Systems & Services Research Annual Conference - (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), University of Kentucky College of Public Health)  - An annual conference sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the University of Kentucky Center for Public Health Systems and Services Research, and the Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas. The goal of the conference is to connect public health researchers, practitioners and policymakers and provide a forum for researchers to exchange ideas about new areas of interest, encourage new entrants to the discipline and develop new data sources and methods.