Supporting Cutting Edge Research: Finding and Reusing Climate and Health Data

Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 1:00pm, Central time

The climate and health research community is growing. Health information professionals are needed to support researchers in finding, using, and sharing FAIR research data. 

Julie Goldman, the data management consultant on CAFÉ RCC, an NIH-Funded climate research community of practice, will be your guide to developing skills in: 

• Locating climate change and human health research 
• Evaluating climate change and human health research for research reuse purposes
• Identifying researcher needs for data availability and accessibility in climate and health research
• Developing services to meet researcher needs
• Data management and sharing

Using the CAFÉ RCC as an example, Julie will show you how to identify a community of practice and how to build data services to support their research needs. CAFÉ RCC sought to identify climate and health researchers in the literature through PubMed, surveying their data management needs, and building a common repository for data sharing. You will also learn about climate change and human health research initiatives that you may be able to support and collaborate with researchers on. 

You’ll leave the course with applicable skills related to survey design, metadata elements, and data sharing strategies, with an understanding of how to apply them to any research domain you support. 

This course is an approved elective for the Level II Data Services Specialization.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the webinar, you will be able to:

• Identify the research data and software needs of climate and health researchers
• Locate and evaluate sources for subject specific research in the areas of climate change and human health
• Develop library data services to facilitate climate and health data management, dissemination, and reuse

Audience

Medical librarians and other health information professionals who support research, data reuse, and data sharing, or are interested in climate research as it relates to human health. 

Presenter

Julie Goldman, MLIS is the Countway Research Data Services Librarian at Harvard Library. Julie offers embedded services and education to Harvard Medical School, School of Dental Medicine, and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She collaborates with students and faculty researchers in the sciences in writing data management and sharing plans and partners with them to plan data management throughout the lifecycle of their research. She is also a data management consultant on the NIH funded Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health CAFÉ Research Coordinating Center (RCC) and the Managing Editor of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB).

Registration Information

• Length: 1.5 hour webinar
• Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024, 1:00pm, Central time
• Technical information:  Login to access the live webinar, resources, evaluation, and certificate.
• Register, participate, and earn 1.5 MLA continuing education (CE) contact hours.