Introduction: Literacy Research Reports Collaborative Panel Discussions

Summary of Panel Discussions

Introduction During the Workshop "Pharmacokinetics: Defining the Dose for Risk Assessment," two panel discussions were held. The first was "Design of Studies to Obtain Pharmacokinetic Data for Risk Assessment." Emil Pfitzer of HoffmannLa Roche, Inc.; James Stevens of Ciba-Geigy Corporation;Penelope FennerCrisp of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Pesticides Program; and Daniel Menzel of ...

Health literacy: setting an international collaborative research agenda

BACKGROUND Health literacy is an increasingly important topic in both the policy and research agendas of many countries. During the recent 36th Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group, the authors led an audio-taped 3-hour forum, "Studying Health Literacy: Developing an International Collaboration," where the current state of health literacy (HL) in the United States (U...

Introduction to Panel Discussions at the Third International Conference on Open Source Systems - OSS 2007

The first panel explores the diverse set of legal issues and risks that arise as governments increasingly adopt open source systems. Governments are attracted to open source software systems by the potential cost savings, open standards and protocols, and the flexibility, adaptability and reliability of the systems. However, there are serious legal issues and liabilities that can arise when gov...

Measuring Collaborative Digital Literacy

Introduction to Panel I