Games for Health Project will hold its fourth annual Games for Health Conference. The conference will be held May 8-9, 2008, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Games for Health has announced that Humana has signed on as a premier industry sponsor for the event.
Prior to the conference, on May 7, the Project will also host two additional day-long events devoted to virtual worlds and health, as well as games accessibility. Together, these three days of meetings will cover the intersection of next-generation game technologies, health, and health care.
The Games for Health Project is dedicated to exploring and building on the use of games and game technologies to improve health and health care. The Project was started in 2002 by the Serious Games Initiative (www.seriousgames.org) and is sponsored by the Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). On November 7, 2007, RWJF announced an $8.25 million grant to fund new research and continued efforts to build the games for health field, which includes support for the Games for Health Project and primary sponsorship of the Games for Health Conference through 2011.
Registration is now open at www.gamesforhealth.org, and a call for content has now been issued on the site and is available to prospective speakers and presenters.
