By Eric Stahlberg, Ph.D., Director, Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR)

Chair: Prof. Phil Bourne, Stephenson Chair of Data Science and Director of the School of Data Science and Professor, University of Virginia

Eric Stahlberg has played a leadership role in many key partnerships, including a major collaboration between the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Department of Energy (DOE), USA. Under the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Systems for Cancer (JDACS4C), NCI and DOE are accelerating progress in precision oncology and computing. The collaboration is rooted in three major national initiatives; the Precision Medicine Initiative, the National Strategic Computing Initiative, and the Cancer Moonshot

The Webcast can be accessed on

http://ohsl.us/ohsc5

On 21^st August 2020 from 4 pm to 5 pm

Pandemic Musings: History, mental health and marginalization
A conversation with Alok Sarin, Consultant in Clinical Psychiatrist, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi; Sanjeev Jain, Professor in Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bengaluru; Vandana Gopikumar, Founder, The Banyan and BALM, Chennai; Ratnaboli Ray, Founder, Anjali Mental Health Rights Organisation, Kolkata; and Pratima Murthy, Head, Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bengaluru
 
A discussion between mental health professionals, looking at histories of earlier pandemics and disasters, data from the present pandemic and means of societal coping. In this conversation, mental health professionals from across the country bring to the table lenses of mental health and illness, homelessness, care needs and issues of development and disruption. Also explored are possible opportunities for change and the imagining of possible futures keeping in mind the needs of social equity and shared humanity

Please click on the link below to register:
http://webcast.streaminglive.in/iicwebinar3/signup.php

Book Discussion Group

On 17^th August 2020 from 4 pm to 5 pm
 
How do You know What you Know?
By Janaki Santoke (New Delhi: Janki Santoke, 2019)
 
Discussants: Shri R. Gopalkrishnan, formerly, Executive Director, Tata Sons and Vice Chairman, Tata Motors (Moderator); and Dr. Janki Santoke, Vedanta scholar and author of the book
 
Chair: Shri Gurcharan Das