The CoVPN provided a list of materials for community workers and service providers leading the fight against COVID-19, the resources include educational videos, infographics, and downloadable fact sheets. Resources describe COVID variants, COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, and the importance of vaccination to address disparities in hospitalization and death.
This factsheet provides a list of resources that describes the COVID-19 variants and their concern, further describing the constantly mutating nature of coronaviruses, SARS-CoV2. The document provides resources that describes the Delta variant which has become the main variant in the US (August 2021) and whether a booster shot is required anytime soon.
Oral presentation by Tracey Veal (Los Angeles County Department of Public Health) that discusses the concern of the general public for COVID-19 vaccine safety due to the historical contexr of medical mistrust, the quickness of the vaccine development process, the problems in fertility, and the alteration of DNA.
Workshop presentation by Bethany Myers, Research Informationist at UCLA that discussed power searching through PubMed Advanced Search MeSH, Embase special search interfaces, and getting full text of articles from PMC and UCElinks.
Workshop presentation by Bethany Myers, Research Informationist at UCLA in April 2021. The workshop discussed how to effectively use citation management software’s such as Endnote and Zotero for grants and publications. This workshop is part of a series that includes “NIH Public Access Compliance” and “Tips for Conducting Effective Literature Searches Workshop.”
Slide presentation for the NIH Public Access Policy on March 24, 2020. This workshop discussed options for investigators for compliance and the procedure for submitting a paper for compliance. The workshop also discusses the UC Open Access Policy, which requires all University of California research publications to be deposited in the eScholarship repository.
Workshop led by Bethany Myers, UCLA Biomedical Library that discusses he NIH Public Access Policy ensures the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research to help advance science and human health. The policy aims to archive a central collection of NIH-funded research publications preserves vital published research findings for years to come. Advance the information resource for scientists to research publications and for NIH to manage better its entire research investment. Access public research publications resulting from NIH-funded research.
Workshop led by Ryan Cook, Fielding School of Public Health that examines the use of inverse probability of treatment weighting for control of confounding in observational studies. Participants learned why IPTW works and how to apply it in their own research.