mHealth Summit 2009 ... Mobile Technologies as a Platform for Health Research and Healthcare Delivery

mHealth Summit
A Summit on Mobile Technologies as a Platform for Health Research and Healthcare Delivery

October 29-30, 2009
Ronald Reagan Building
Washington, DC

The mHealth Summit, a public-private partnership of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, will focus on mobile technologies as a platform for health research and healthcare delivery.

* Online Registration
* Information on the agenda, presentations, and accomodations

About the mHealth Summit

The two-day event will explore the role of biomedical research as the driver for the development of compelling applications based on mobile technology. The Summit will bring together 450 to 600 U.S. and international researchers, technology experts, and policymakers in the public sector, as well as those from academia, industry, and NGOs to:

* Assess current policies regarding mobile health technologies and their use in reducing or eliminating domestic and global health disparities
* Build bridges between the scientific community and mobile technology developers to identify mHealth solutions
* Highlight scientific opportunities and challenges in using mobile technologies to improve public health
* Discuss and craft a vision for the development and use of mobile technologies in the future

The agenda will include several case study tracks, as well as panel discussions that address broad themes related to mobile technologies as tools for research and improving health. The mHealth Summit program committee has announced a call for presentations and is seeking case studies that describe current or completed research projects using mobile technologies to improve research data collection, healthcare delivery, health outcomes, and/or health and science education. All NIH Institutes and Centers are strongly urged to encourage researchers from their intramural and extramural communities to submit presentation abstracts.

Current partnering Institutes and Centers include:

* Fogarty International Center (FIC)
* National Cancer Institute (NCI)
* National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
* National Center on Research Resources (NCRR)
* National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
* National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
* National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Additional Institutes or Centers that are interested in helping to plan the Summit should contact:

Dr. Barbara Mittleman
Director, Program on Public-Private Partnerships, Office of Science Policy

Sponsors

The mHealth Summit is sponsored by FNIH in partnership with the NIH, the U.S. State Department, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, and the World Bank. Supporting industry members are Microsoft Research, the Abbott Fund, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer, Inc.