This webinar is the 1st webinar of a 5-part series about Long COVID and is based on a teleconference that occurred February 8,2022. Please note this webinar series is for educational and informational purposes only! Please consult with your physician about what is right for you.
Read More »Our Research & Training
We conduct research on the safety and effectiveness of medical products such as Alzheimer’s drugs, cancer drugs, and medical implants and devices used for a wide range of health problems, such as heart disease and joint replacement. In addition to the free information on this website and on www.stopcancerfund.org, we also publish articles in major medical journals and health policy journals.
These are the summaries of studies we’ve done, and here are the articles we’ve published in medical journals and health policy journals in the last few years.
Are you a reporter or medical writer interested in our free Health Research Training Workshop? Learn more here.
National Center for Health Research National Long COVID Conference on October 3, 2022
October 3, 2022: NCHR’s National Long COVID conference was held in Washington, DC. Topics included autoimmunity, ME/CFS, Caregiving, Children and Teens, Dept of Veterans Affairs, and Research.
Read More »Training Journalists and Researchers to Communicate Key Healthcare Findings
The National Center for Health Research’s project “Spreading the Word” ran from 2018 to 2021 and was partially funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (8598-NCHR). This project was designed to bring together journalists, medical writers, researchers, and medical experts to effectively disseminate findings from PCORI-funded studies and to ensure that the media are interested […]
Read More »Training Researchers to Communicate CER Findings to Journalists
This webinar is part of our “Spreading the Word” project and is designed for researchers who want to better communicate in an interesting and understandable way with journalists (and the public).
Read More »Improving the Accuracy of COVID-19 Media Coverage
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Center for Health Research hosted 9 teleconferences featuring COVID-19 researchers as speakers and discussants on different aspects of COVID-19 of importance to journalists. The main goal of this project was to help journalists understand the nuances of often conflicting information about COVID-19 research, to help ensure accurate media coverage.
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