A mid-year 2026 newsletter marking WIA's tenth anniversary and its approval as an official AMIA working group, with the current organizational structure and biographies of the co-chairs and subcommittee leaders.
A December 2025 update from the Women in AMIA Steering Committee recapping 2024–2025 highlights, the WIA program at the AMIA Annual Symposium, the launch of the IMIA HERoes SIG, and new initiatives on women's health gaps and AI's impact on the digital workforce.
AMIA supports the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) effort to move beyond publication counts, journal impact factors, and citation metrics when measuring scientific impact. AMIA recommends that NIH reward rigorous methods, reproducibility, replication studies, data and software sharing, team science, mentorship, multi-site validation, standardized outcome reporting, and long-term public value […]
AMIA recommends that the National Library of Medicine (NLM) modernize the G13 Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health program to better support biomedical and health informatics scholarship, including systematic reviews, scoping reviews, evidence maps, living resources, and digital knowledge products. AMIA urges NLM to prioritize topics such as […]
AMIA joined the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Coalition (DRRC) in urging Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to withdraw or substantially revise proposed federal grants guidance. The coalition warns the rule could politicize merit-based funding, expand termination authority, restrict scientific dissemination and collaboration, and increase administrative burdens; undermining stable, independent […]