WEEKLY COMMUNITY CALL MEETING
Please join our Nov. 12 (11 am ET) community call for a session focused on Next Steps in Evidence Dissemination. The 2024 Global Symposium (https://ohdsi.org/ohdsi2024) included sessions focused on large-scale evidence generation and dissemination; we will look to the future as we build on those discussions during our upcoming community call.
Everybody is invited. Calendar invites went out last week. If you did not receive one, please use this link to join the meeting. All recordings from these weekly calls are available within our Teams environment and will be posted on both our YouTube page and our OHDSI.org Community Calls page.
WEEKLY WORKING GROUP MEETINGS
Upcoming Workgroup Calls – OHDSI
OHDSI UPDATES
The ENCePP Guide on Methodological Standards in Pharmacoepidemiology will undergo its 12th revision in 2025. In order to inform the selection of chapters to be updated, and support organization and planning, the ENCePP Secretariat (including the EMA editorial team) and the Research Standards and Guidance Working Group are seeking feedback from the ENCePP community and users of the Guide. Please complete the survey by Monday, 18 November. The results and overall strategy (see Minutes of the September 2024 ENCePP Steering Group meeting) will be discussed at the Annual ENCePP Plenary meeting on Friday, 22 November.
• The November OHDSI newsletter is now available. This edition includes reflections from the Global Symposium, information on the NEI/OHDSI Challenge, details on the APAC Symposium, recent publications and presentations, and more. If you don’t receive the newsletter each month, you can subscribe here.
• All videos and slides from the main conference of the 2024 OHDSI Global Symposium are now available on the event homepage. You can also find the 136 posters and software demos from our collaborator showcase. The tutorials will be posted to the homepage when available.
• The next edition of the CBER BEST Seminar Series will be held Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 11 am ET. Jennifer Clark Nelson, Director of Biostatistics & Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute will present on “Statistical methods for improving post-licensure vaccine safety surveillance.” The meeting link and past presentations can be found on the seminar series homepage.
• The latest edition of “Our Journey: Where the OHDSI Community Has Been, and Where We Are Going” was distributed at the Global Symposium, and the online version is available on the OHDSI website.
• The University of Nottingham is hosting a workshop on “How to be FAIR with Data Standards” Nov. 26-27 in the Nottingham Council House. More information, the two-day agenda and a registration link is available here.
• The 2024 OHDSI Asia-Pacific (APAC) Symposium will be held December 4-8 in Singapore. Regional co-chairs Mengling ‘Mornin’ Feng and Ngial Kee Yuan will lead this event, which has a theme of “When OHDSI Meets with AI.” Registration is now open!
NEI Challenge
The National Eye Institute (NEI) Expand OHDSI Initiative for Eye Care and Ocular Imaging Challenge seeks innovative ideas to broaden the use of the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) network for vision research, promoting the adoption of the OMOP Common Data Model. This challenge incentivizes researchers to develop novel approaches that enhance data quality and foster advancements in ophthalmology and optometry.
The mandatory registration (intent to participate) is due by November 12, 2024. Entities must register their intent to participate by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on November 12, 2024 by submitting the Challenge Registration Formto neiodshi@nei.nih.gov. Entities who do not complete their registration by the deadline will not have their submissions considered for this Challenge. Each Participant Entity must designate a Point of Contact responsible for registering and submitting on behalf of the Entity and for all communications with the Challenge sponsors. Participants will also need to provide the name, affiliation, and contact information of all other individuals competing in this Challenge on behalf of an Entity. All such individuals must certify they have read and understand and agree to abide by the official eligibility criteria, participation rules, and requirements for the Challenge as stated in this announcement.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get support for integration into the network! Please direct any questions about this initiative to NEIODSHI@nei.nih.gov.
OHDSI Social Showcase
• Research from the 2024 Global Symposium Collaborator Showcase is also being shared daily on OHDSI’s LinkedIn, Twitter/X and Instagram feeds as part of the #OHDSISocialShowcase. Below are posters (with study leads) that are featured this week:
Monday — Dynamic Mapping Tools: Keeping Up to Date with Vocabulary Changes (Melanie Philofsky, Hanan Shorrosh)
Tuesday — Evaluating Synthea: Comprehensive Analysis of a Leading Synthesized Medical Record Generator (Zach Wagner)
Wednesday — Estimation of Causal Effects under Treatment Misclassification: A Semi-Parametric Bias Correction Framework with Application to Vaccine Effectiveness Study (Qiong Wu)
Thursday — Predicting the risk of new onset of type 2 diabetes following exposure of Statin within patient with coronary artery disease (Septi Melisa)
Friday — Aggregating and harmonizing registry databases for comparative analyses – lessons learnt (Eva-Maria Didden)
Job Openings
• Cynthia Sung announced a new opening for a Senior Program Officer, Public Health Surveillance, Data Integration, and Artificial Intelligence at the Gates Foundation. This role will focus on public health informatics and AI for the Foundation’s cross-cutting public health surveillance initiative and will also support other groups in the Pneumonia & Pandemic Preparedness Team that are considering investments in public health informatics and AI
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