Thursday March 27th
8:00 am – 4:30 pm: Great Wall & Ming Dynasty Tomb Tour (Trip A - optional)
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm: Dinner Reception & Registration (Bai’Yu’Lan Dining Hall, 2nd Floor, Conference Hotel—Golden Harbor Hotel)
Friday March 28th
9:15 am - 10:05 am: Welcoming remarks to joint session with concurrent workshop on Infectious Disease Informatics and BioSurveillance. Yang’Guang’Wu’Ding, 8th Floor of Conference Hotel
- Mr. Qi Zhang, Director of International Collaboration, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Prof. Xiong He, Deputy Director, Beijing CDC
- Dr. Bill Chang, US NSF Beijing Office
- Dr. Liexun Yang, NNSFC of China
10:05 am – 11:15 am: Opening Keynotes to joint Tobacco and Infectious Disease workshop Yang’Guang’Wu’Ding, 8th Floor of Conference Hotel
- Dr. Leslie Lenert, Director, CDC National Center for Public Health Informatics
- Gonghuan Yang, Deputy Director of the China National CDC
11:15 am – 11:25 am: Coffee Break
11:25 am – 12.55 pm: Overview of current U.S.-China tobacco control/research efforts
Hai'Lan'Ge, 5th Floor of Conference Hotel
Brief 5-minute presentations by US and Chinese tobacco control/researchers on: ongoing efforts in US-China collaboration in the area of tobacco research, educational and policy opportunities that will benefit from further US-China collaboration in the area of tobacco research, theoretical, methodological, and technological challenges in reaping the potential benefits of further US-China collaboration in the area of tobacco research. Presentations should address the following four questions:
- What is the scientific aim of your project or research in tobacco control?
- What are challenges the projects faces in data collection, data management, data analysis, project implementation, research collaboration, network development, and/or capacity building?
- What other interesting questions or approaches would you like to do but can’t because of limitations?
- How do you imagine that technology could improve your research or work?
- Sarah England, WHO China Representative Office
- Xiue Fan, Chinese CDCP
- Tom Glynn, American Cancer Society
- Yajia Lan, Sichuan University
- Scott Leischow, University of Arizona
- Fengji Luo, Beijing Chaoyang Region CDCP
- Xiao Ma, Sichuan University
- Paula Palmer, University of Southern California
- Fran Stillman, Johns Hopkins University
- Xia Wan, Peking Union Medical University
12:55pm – 1:55 pm: Joint Lunch with Infectious Disease participants. Bai’Yu’Lan Dining Hall, 2th Floor of Conference Hotel
Keynote by Jon Samet, Johns Hopkins University will address the challenges and opportunities for tobacco control in China and around the World.
1:55 pm - 2:25 pm: Interactive poster session I Bai’Yu’Lan Dining Hall, 2th Floor of Conference Hotel : In this joint session with the infectious disease workshop, participants in the concurrent Infectious Diseases Workshop will display in some detail their ongoing research related to public health and/or informatics.
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Overview of cyberinfrastructure efforts & application to tobacco research Hai'Lan'Ge, 5th Floor of Conference Hotel
Brief 5-minute presentations by US and Chinese scholars on ongoing efforts to develop cyberinfrastructure in the area of tobacco research and opportunities to use cyberinfrastructure tools to overcome challenges and hurdles for geographically distributed scientific collaboration. Presentations should address the following four questions:
- What is the scientific aim of your research in informatics?
- How can technology improve data collection, data management, data analysis, project implementation, research collaboration, network development, and/or capacity building?
- Provide case examples demonstrating how technology you developed addressed research and project problems in other research areas or in tobacco control.
- What were your learning experiences for future efforts?
- Raj Acharya, Pennsylvania State University
- Katy Borner, Indiana University
- Ian Brooks, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jianxu Chu, University of Science and Technology of China
- Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
- Barbara Fossum, Purdue University
- Xiaosong Li, Sichuan University
- Xinhua Li Ministry of Health
- Javed Mostafa, University of North Carolina
- Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Coffee Break
4:15 pm – 6:20 pm: Case studies followed by moderated discussion. Hai'Lan'Ge, 5th Floor of Conference Hotel
Participants will showcase, in some depth, recent developments or advances they have made in one of these categories and to describe what they learned from these experiences. This will be followed by a focused Q&A and discussion among all participants.
- Systems: Scott Leischow
- Networking: Paula Palmer
- Online Networking: Noshir Contractor
- Collaboration: Ian Brooks
- Data Fusion: Raj Acharya
- Data Mining: Jaideep Srivastava
- Training: Fran Stillman
- Online Training: Shaojun Ma
6:20 pm – 7:00 pm Interactive Poster Session II Bai’Yu’Lan Dining Hall, 2th Floor of Conference Hotel: In this joint session with the Infectious Disease workshop, participants in the Tobacco control/research Workshop will display print outs of power point slides that describe in some detail their ongoing research or case-studies reporting on research related to public health and/or informatics.
7:00 pm - Joint Dinner with infectious disease workshop participants
Bai’Yu’Lan Dining Hall, 2th Floor of Conference Hotel
Saturday March 29th
8:30 am – 8:45 am Welcome back and instructions for break out group sessions Hai'Lan'Ge, 5th Floor of Conference Hotel
8:45 am – 9:45 am Breakout into three self-selected discussion groups to discuss opportunities and challenges in applying cyberinfrastructure tools to advance US-China collaboration in the following three areas (these areas might be reformulated based on discussions on Day 1): Hai'Lan'Ge, 5th Floor of Conference Hotel and Bai’Yu’Lan Dining Hall, 2th Floor of Conference Hotel
Group 1: Data collection, integration, fusion, analysis and management
Group 2: Research collaboration, Project management and implementation
Group 3: Network development and Capacity building
The discussion groups will discuss one or more of the following questions:
- How can cyberinfrastructure be used to help advance research and implementation by joint collaborations between US and China scholars?
- What cyberinfrastructure tools can be used to help advance research?
- What is needed to improve informatics?
- What is needed to improve collaboration?
- What can be done to improve how data sets are shared?
- What are the translation needs and how can technology improve this?
- What research questions require harnessing high performance or grid computing?
- What collaboration tools are needed?
- How to build networks and better collaboration?
9:45 am – 10:15 am: Coffee Break
10:15 am – 11:45 pm: 30-minute (20 minute plus 10 minutes Q&A) report back from each of the three discussion groups about challenges and opportunities for use of cyberinfrastructure in tobacco research. Hai'Lan'Ge, 5th Floor of Conference Hotel
11:45 am – 12:15 pm: Outlining the Workshop Report: Based on the workshop discussions, participants will identify key issues, challenges, opportunities, resources, and contributions to be included in the workshop report. Hai'Lan'Ge, 5th Floor of Conference Hotel
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm: Joint Lunch with participants of Infectious Diseases workshop Bai’Yu’Lan Dining Hall, 2th Floor of Conference Hotel
2:00 pm – 9:30 pm: Travel to Shopping District, Dinner and Cultural event
Sunday March 30th
9:00am – 1:30 pm: Short Local Sightseeing Trip (Trip C – optional)
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