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Convening and Collaborating: Forums and Roundtables
Convening and Collaborating: Forums and Roundtables
Pages 115-122
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Although creating common ground can occur through formal committees with specific objectives and areas of study, it often takes place through forums, roundtables, and symposia that provide opportunities for serendipitous discovery and critical, crossdisciplinary thinking. Symposia are most often held as part of the dissemination activities for an IOM report on a focused topic.
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The Forum's most recent workshop explored the use of nanotechnology in food and the management of food safety practices from the beginning of the supply chain to the marketplace in an effort to understand food safety risks that con tinue to emerge. forum on Drug Discoery, Deelopment, and Translation The Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, created in 2005 by the Board on Health Sciences Policy, provides an opportunity for leaders from government, academia, industry, and other stakeholder groups to meet several times a year to discuss ongoing and emerging issues in pharmacol ogy.
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In recent years, Forum dialogues have illuminated priorities in infectious disease research and public health policy; the use of new scientific and policy tools; and opportunities for more effective collaboration between the private and the public sectors. Recent workshops have focused on global climate change and the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, as well as on the biological and ecological context of vector-borne diseases and their impact on the health of the public.
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The Forum considers a range of issues in science, clinical med icine, public health, and public policy relevant to the goals of preventing, palliating, and curing can cer. The Forum's two most recent workshops exam ined cancer in older people and the genetic testing and counseling issues related to cancer patients.
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The Roundtable's workshops have exposed a number of specific concerns relevant to health literacy, including the organizational changes necessary to improve health literacy and the role of health literacy in transforming health care quality. roundtable on enironmental Health Sciences, research, and Medicine Established in 1998, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine brings together stakeholders from government, academia, industry, and environmental groups to discuss sensitive and difficult issues related to environmental health.
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Roundtable members include consumers and patients, health professionals, representatives from health care delivery organizations, evaluators and clinical researchers, employees and employ ers, health information technology developers, health care manufacturers, insurers, and regula tors, among others. The Roundtable concentrates on three main areas: evidence development, evi dence application, and sustainable capacity in the areas of clinical effectiveness research, electronic health records, best practices, and evidence communication.
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Roundtable members include experts from the health and social sciences, industry, and the community. Recent Roundtable workshops have focused on the challenges and successes in reducing health disparities.
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