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The National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care is a meeting place for people committed to the mission of improving health care. This annual event draws approximately 6,500 health care leaders from around the world in person and thousands more via satellite broadcast.

The National Minority AIDS Council, sponsors of this conference, says that more than 3,000 workers representing all fronts of the HIV/AIDS epidemic will attend this event. Many conference sessions will look at HIV and AIDS in minority populations, including people who are incarcerated, homeless or at risk.

The Institute of Medicine's Food Forum will explore ways to manage food safety practices from the supply chain to the marketplace.

This multidisciplinary conference, hosted by the Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, is the the largest Department of Defense public health gathering.

The conference will include the presentation of scientific research and dialogue on the major challenges facing the global response to AIDS. In addition to the conference sessions there are a number of activities, including satellite meetings, exhibitions, the Global Village and the Cultural Programme, that are integral to delegates' experience at the conference.

Kids Risk Project is holding a symposium in Boston entitled "Managing Children's Risks: Putting All Children Ahead."

Presentations by the Specialized Centers of Research on Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Women's Health will look at gender differences in visceral pain and brain responses in Irritable Bowel Syndrome and responses of gastrointestinal tract to stress: Implication of CRF-signaling pathways.

The conference will focus on creating a way to foster public sector science and eliminate the influence of politics and corporations on that science. The all-day conference includes sessions on limiting conflicts of interest on federal advisory committees, with a special emphasis on the FDA; and disclosing conflicts of interest in the medical literature. One session of particular interest for health care reporters who plan to cover the reform debates this fall and in the new year is "Setting the Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Agenda: What Role for Industry?"

The Brookings Institution's Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform will hold a briefing to discuss the economic and care-based issues facing long-term care in the United States.

Health Care for America Now, a coalition of organizations that includes labor unions, large community-based membership groups, women's groups, doctors, nurses, small businesses, and leading netroots activists, will launch a $40 million campaign to push for quality, affordable health care for every American.

The IOM Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders is holding a workshop focused on identifying Grand Challenges in Neuroscience.

The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a meeting about issuing subpeonas in its ongoing investigation regarding the safety of the nation's food supply. That will be followed by a hearing on "American Lives Still at Risk: When Will FDA’s Food Protection Plan Be Fully Funded and Implemented." Both are available via archived webcasts.

The Commonwealth Fund is sponsoring a session to discuss equality in the health care field. The session will follow AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting.

Veterans Affairs, in collaboration with Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) and other partners, is hosting this event as part of National VA Research Week. Presentations will include information about research on schizophrenia, diabetes, brain-computer interface, women's issues and more.

This symposium, which will be videocast, will present advances in pain research and pain management, featuring work done through NIH support. Topics will include Moving Basic Discoveries to the Clinic and Clinical Findings to the Laboratory. A poster session will include a broad selection of current pain research findings presented by junior investigators. Members of the extramural scientific community, the NIH scientific community, health care providers, and the public are invited to attend.

HHS' Office on Disability and Cleveland Clinic's Center for Neurological Restoration will hold a one-day conference on May 6 to focus on the impact DBS, or brain pacemakers, has on patients' quality of life, level of functioning and return to work. Topics will also include improving access to care, encouraging medical innovation and research and examining ethical considerations.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt will present the president's HHS budget for fiscal year 2009 at 1 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 4, in the auditorium of the Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Ave., SW, in Washington, D.C.

Latest data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) on HIV infection in the U.S. general population, including discussion related to its association with Herpes simplex-virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection.

This report is the comprehensive annual report on mortality in the U.S., a follow-up to the preliminary report and the much shorter Health E-stat version.

This report looks at 2004 mortality data as well as trend data on annual flu and pneumonia vaccination coverage and differences among Hispanic, non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black populations.

At 11 a.m. ET, former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) will be webcast live during the first of the "Health Care 2008: Presidential Candidate Forums."