NIH mHealth Training Institute

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with mHIMSS, will host the NIH mHealth Training Institute at the 2012 mHealth Summit on December 1^st and 2^nd. The mHealth Institute is designed to provide behavioral and social scientists tools to successfully add mobile health technologies to their research in a collaborative team environment with mentorship from leaders in the fields of engineering, medicine and the behavioral and social sciences.

This two-day Institute will provide participants with an overview of the central multidisciplinary aspects of mobile and wireless research. The training will follow a project from conception through dissemination led by a panel of experts.  Participants will be involved in didactic sessions targeting major cross-cutting research issues and interdisciplinary team exercises developing mHealth research projects.

A limited number of scholarships, sponsored by the mHealth Summit, are available for early career researchers.

Registration:     In your mHealth Summit registration, request the NIH mHealth training Institute. Please note that there is an additional mHealth Summit fee of $100.00 to attend the training.

Space is limited to 50 attendees and will be based on first come first serve basis 

·         Attendees of the training institute must also be registered to attend the mHealth Summit

Registration for the training institute opens on Monday, August 20th, 2012.

Website:

http://www.mhealthsummit.org/

Institute:

Saturday, December 1	10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday, December 2	9:00 AM - 3:00 PM