Dr. Meg Mooney helps coordinate cancer clinical trial networks across the country and internationally, as well as organizes initiatives related to innovative cancer treatment reviews and precision medicine. In this episode, Mooney discusses a new clinical trial study the National Cancer Institute launched for cancer patients with COVID-19 as well as the work being done in drug discovery and development during this time.

Data-sharing efforts at HHS aim to bring increased collaboration among its subagencies and centers. Sanjay Koyani has been working on these efforts to help agencies be more aware of the common tools to accomplish public health missions in areas like the opioid crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and more.

Nick Weber leads the NIH's initiative to bring cloud-computing tools to researchers. He discusses cloud's benefits for engaging researchers to collaborate and share valuable data in a secure environment. Part of this effort includes the STRIDES Initiative, which incorporates public-private partnerships to streamline data use.

Dr. Adam Haim from NIH's National Institute of Mental Health discusses digital mental health interventions, research on mobile health applications, and the accelerated adoption of telehealth by patients and providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the third part of a series in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month.

In part 2 of our series exploring mental health during the coronavirus pandemic, Kelly Blasko, a clinical psychologist and mobile health clinical integration lead for the Defense Health Agency Connected Health branch, discusses developments on apps to provide mental health tools for military health beneficiaries and how they’re helping users through the pandemic.

World-renowned psychiatrist Dr. Nora Volkow discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted those suffering from substance-abuse disorder and drug-related illness, as well as the roles that telehealth and innovative treatment methods play during this time. This is the first part of a series in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month.

In cancer research, technology that advances data sharing and management is crucial for bringing together the health research community to inform innovation in health care. Proteomics Program Director Chris Kinsinger provides a look at how systems are advancing efforts in proteomics for cancer research, with a look into his office's data commons and how it's helping bring data types together to help researchers solve problems at NIH.

Susan Gregurick leads the implementation of the NIH's Strategic Plan for Data Science and was instrumental in creating this office in 2018. Our conversation with her uncovers more about the agency's storage and data-computing capabilities and what this means for the health science community at large.

GovernmentCIO's chief medical information officer provides insight, as a former nurse and military officer during the SARS pandemic, the current state of health IT amid the national coronavirus response and what other contractors or the public at large should know about it.

Insights from NIH Principal Deputy Director Dr. Lawrence Tabak include promising opportunities in using artificial intelligence across government to improve health care. As the research agency explores the technology, we also address efforts across government like at the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Health Agency.