Apps Against Abuse Challenge Winners Announced
In July 2011, Vice President Joe Biden, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius launched the "Apps Against Abuse" technology challenge - a national competition to develop an innovative software application, or "app," that provides young adults with tools to help prevent sexual assault and dating violence. Find out which entrants were chosen as the winners of this challenge.
Help Us Develop Our New Open Gov Plan
In January 2009, President Obama issued the Open Government Directive, calling for government agencies to take action to become more transparent, participatory, and collaborative. We issued “Version 1” of HHS’s Open Government Plan on April 7, 2010. This plan has served as our guiding star as we’ve worked energetically to “liberate” HHS data and improve how HHS collaborates with the public and external stakeholders. We are now working on “Version 2” of our Open Government Plan, and would love to get your help in developing it.
mHealth Research & Evaluation: New Opportunities and Challenges
Does a mobile health (mHealth) program work and how do you know? The traditional scientific process provides a systematic way of determining which research and evaluation methods work (and which don’t). The advent of mobile devices has created unique and exciting opportunities for conducting research and evaluation, along with challenges for researchers to address. We outline three key considerations in developing mHealth research initiatives: 1) innovative methods for mHealth research; 2) human subject protection issues - institutional review board (IRB) review and approval; and 3) trans-disciplinary research and diverse audience expectations.
