The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have reaffirmed a partnership, originally established in 2012, to develop initiatives that explore the intersection of biomedical and humanities research.
This collaboration will bring together scholars, scientists, librarians, archivists, curators, technical information specialists, healthcare professionals, cultural heritage professionals, and others in the humanities and biomedical communities in order to share expertise and develop new research agendas.
NEH Senior Deputy Chairman Jon Parrish Peede and NLM Director Patricia Flatley Brennan signed the memorandum of understanding extending the partnership agreement through 2021 shortly before Viral Networks: An Advanced Workshop in Digital Humanities and Medical History. Hosted by the NLM and supported by NEH through a grant to Virginia Tech, this 3-day workshop convened scholars of medical history whose research shows promise for making innovative use of methods, tools, and data from the digital humanities.
Viral Networks was the latest in a long series of collaborations between the NLM and NEH. Other collaborations have included the April 2016 workshop Images and Texts in Medical History: An Introduction to Methods, Tools, and Data from the Digital Humanities, which explored emerging approaches to the analysis of texts and images in the field of medical history; the April 2013 symposium Shared Horizons: Data, Biomedicine, and the Digital Humanities, which explored the intersection of digital humanities and biomedicine, and the October 2013 symposium An Epidemiology of Information: New Methods for Interpreting Disease and Data, which explored new methods for large-scale data analysis of epidemic disease.
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