National Institutes of Health

@Shelley – we are working in a project at NIH. Let me know if you’d like to discuss your needs.

Hello my friends! I have moved from a very succesfull recruiting role into a sales and marketing position…within the same fabulous company. We hold two BPAs with NIH and I would like to get to the right people that hire contract staff. I would greatly appreciate any assistance you can provide.

Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!

The new website for the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program is LIVE! –> http://irp.nih.gov

Please join us for the next Reaching Latinos Online Meetup – September 8 at 6pm – Medline Plus en español – Reaching Latinos with High-Quality Health Information – http://www.meetup.com/reachinglatinosonline/events/29964751/
This is a free event with lots of networking, learning, good food and drinks! Look forward to seeing you there.

Measuring the readability of government sites in Spanish using the Huerta Index (Plain Language Law) – http://bit.ly/huertaindexandreadability

Check out this demo prezi using of our team’s work: https://prezi.com/secure/c6d00897d71f2ae346900c3f7249e180f335ae58/ (now with corrected url)

Anybody or IC out there in NIH using an internal web 2.0 type collaboration mechanism to share ideas or best practices?

Help out the NIH library by taking their quick painless (I swear) telework survey: https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/reminder-about-teleworking

Looking forward to it!

I wanted to let you all know that the NIH intramural program is conducting a search for new Tenure-Track investigators. The deadline for applications is October 1. There are multiple positions available in many different scientific areas. This is a great opportunity for folks looking for research positions. Details and more info: http://tenuretrack…[Read more]

If you’re interested in letting your creative side loose a bit you might want to enter our biotech art contest. Genome Alberta is a non-profit genetics funding organization up here in Canada and we’re holding a digital art contest leading up to National Biotech week. There are (very) modest cash prizes, but all entries will be considered for use…[Read more]

Hey,
Suhail Khokhar is trying to win a GL scholarship and about dedication to health in the essay – vote ’em up and tell your colleagues!
https://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/vote-on-2500-gl-scholarship

Congrats to NIH/NCI: Persistent cookies Now Live under New OMB Policy
https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/congrats-to-nihnci-persistent

Curious to know if NIH does any research on health issues in space, sparked by this Beth Beck (NASA) post on the LAUNCH:Health Innovators project:
https://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/search-for-launchhealth

Plan to join us for the upcoming Health Informatics Pulse (HIP) event scheduled for the evening of June 24th in Bethesda, MD. HIP will feature a great line-up of eight speakers sharing their expertise in a rapid-fire venue where each presenter is given only 5 minutes to highlight their innovative use of health informatics. Some of the…[Read more]

If I understand that RFI correctly, they are looking to mirror PubMed on a more global basis….possibly using NIH as their model. We’ve started a Ning network that actually is focused on collaboration between grantees focused on cancer translational research (collaborations on assays, clinical trials, drug development, etc). I’m interested to see…[Read more]