9th Annual Vivian W. Pinn Symposium

Date and Time

– May 15, 2025, 4:00 PM EDT

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Event Information

An NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health annual signature event, the Vivian W. Pinn Symposium, honors the first full-time director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, Vivian W. Pinn, M.D. The symposium is held every year during National Women’s Health Week.

This year’s symposium, “Advancing Data-Driven Innovation for the Health of Women," focuses on how data science skills, resources, and training can build capacity for interdisciplinary data analyses.

The objectives of the symposium are:

  • Data Dissemination: Highlight quantitative and qualitative federal data resources that can be used to understand women’s health in context.
  • Data Literacy: Familiarize attendees with key concepts in data science and social determinants of health.
  • Real-World Science: Highlight applications of data science-based applications to community-centered projects.
  • Data Privacy: Review key issues and opportunities related to data privacy and accessibility. 
     

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Agenda

 

TimeTopicSpeaker
12:00 p.m.Opening RemarksJanine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO 
Director, ORWH
 
12:15 p.m.Flash Talks: NIH Data 
Resources and Repositories
 		NIH Program Staff
1:00 p.m.Capstone Speaker: 
Advancing Data Innovations 
for Health Improvements: 
Possibilities and Pitfalls		Raquel Hill, Ph.D.
Chair of Computer and Information Sciences and Professor, 
Spelman College 

Introduced by Lauren Fordyce, Ph.D.
Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, NIH
 
1:35 p.m.Q&A Moderator: 
Dina Paltoo, Ph.D., M.P.H. 
National Library of Medicine, NIH
 
1:45 p.m.Break
 
1:55 p.m. Overview of Panel Session and Speaker IntroductionsJenna Norton, Ph.D., M.P.H.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
 
2:00 p.m. From Story to Data, From Data to Healing: Data Sovereignty for 
Native Women
 		Melissa Buffalo, M.S.
CEO, American Indian 
Cancer Foundation
2:15 p.m Fostering Data-Driven Decisions
for Patients and Caregivers 
 		Rochelle Prosser, RN, CLNC
Founder, Orchid Healthcare Solutions
 
2:30 p.m.Advancing Precision Women’s Health: Empowering Impacted Populations to Transform Women’s Health through 
AI and Data Innovation
 		Alex Carlisle, Ph.D.
Founder, Chairman, and CEO 
National Accelerator for Discovery in Precision Health
 
2:45 p.m.Computational Biology for 
Women's Health 





 		Liat Shenhav, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology; Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics 
and Gynecology
NYU Grossman School of Medicine 
 
3:00 p.m.Data Privacy and Data Transparency: Ethical, Legal, Regulatory, and 
Policy Issues 		Pilar Ossorio, Ph.D., J.D. 
Professor of Law and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
 
3:15 p.m. Panel DiscussionModerator: 
Vivian Ota Wang, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, ORWH
 
3:45 p.m. Closing RemarksVivian W. Pinn, M.D.
Former Director, ORWH
Senior Scientist Emerita 
NIH Fogarty International Center

Introduced by Janine Clayton, M.D. 
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