Past Funded Projects

Bridgeville Public Library will host training for its staff led by health professionals that will equip staff members with the skills that they need to better serve patrons in the community who are experiencing mental health and emotional issues. One training will have a social work element, giving staff valuable tools to utilize in their everyday patron interactions, another will deal with mental health issues.

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter's session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in the ALA Midwinter Conference's Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Participation in the ALA Midwinter Conference's Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity session will allow me to deepen my understanding of this topic and how my library and institution can provide better information to the community members we serve.

Improve the value of research produced by students, faculty, and staff at WSU Spokane by creating a data-viz lab, offering hands-on workshops, and offer data consultations.

Promoting Science Literacy through New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians will increase accessibility to and provide sustainability for the New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians program, an immersive, two-and-a-half-day event that regularly draws between fifty-five and seventy librarians.

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This project will allow the Community Memorial Health System CMHS Medical Library to purchase, install, and manage a dynamic digital signage system. The project will increase the capacity of the CMHS Medical Library to provide awareness of Library resources that are directly relevant to academic achievement e.g., new textbooks, journals, databases; class teaching schedules; CMHS graduate medical education news; National Library of Medicine resources and services and improved patient care outcomes.

Professional development to attend Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections on Health Equity at the ALA Midwinter conference in Seattle, WA, January 2019.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to support public libraries in meeting the health information needs of their patrons and engaging their communities around the Research Program. This preconference will discuss programming ideas, funding opportunities, and community engagement for public libraries around issues of health literacy, precision medicine, and . Participants will learn about the Research Program and its goal of addressing health disparities and advancing medical research.

Dahlgren Memorial Library at Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking funding for a project designed to assess the utility of iPad Mini tablet devices for use by neonatal intensive care unit and pathology residents at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Research has been conducted in the use of the iPad in several clinical point of care and training settings including with physical medicine and rehabilitation residents Niehaus, et al, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Resident Use of iPad Mini Mobile Devices. PM R. 2015 May;75:512-8.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to support public libraries in meeting the health information needs of their patrons and engaging their communities around the Research Program. This preconference will discuss programming ideas, funding opportunities, and community engagement for public libraries around issues of health literacy, precision medicine, and . Participants will learn about the Research Program and its goal of addressing health disparities and advancing medical research.

Exhibit at the North Carolina Veterinary Conference

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will provide training to five addiction treatment centers in eastern Pennsylvania on addiction-related care for the LGBT community, as well as connect the treatments to resources available through MedlinePlus.

Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. Built on a tradition of more than 90 years of excellence, Allen currently serves 625 students in seven health programsnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, and occupational therapyranging from associates to doctorates.

This session, sponsored by the African American Medical Librarians Alliance AAMLA of the Medical Library Association, will provide attendees with an overview of implicit bias, the impact it has in libraries and in health care, and more importantly how it stands in the way of diversity and inclusion initiatives on our campuses. An implicit bias occurs when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.

The Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center PRC staff propose to promote awareness and improved health literacy among its public populations by developing an interactive and traveling exhibit devoted to health literacy and consumer health with online video tutorial components of MedlinePlus and other NLM resources made available on the PRC YouTube Channel. They plan to debut the Interactive Health Literacy and Consumer Health Exhibit Exhibit and promote the video tutorials at the annual 3rd Avenue Street Fair in Manhattan.

Our team at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Public Health Initiatives CPHI has a longstanding commitment to expanding evidence-based health-related programming in public libraries. Opioid-related mortality in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade, especially in Philadelphia, which has the highest overdose mortality rate among major U.S. cities.

Attend and participate in the ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Stated in the mission and goals of the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine ARCOM is the desire to recruit and train medical students who are focused on service to the underserved. This aim is important because Arkansas is one of the lowest ranking states in physician-to-population ratio.

The exhibit will have trifolds on NLM mobile, Pubmed Health, Pubmed, Medline Plus, Toxtown, and other pertinent materials. A portion of the handouts will focus on the NLM materials that support education of youth and 87.

Continuing on PATHS Leading to Excellent Patient Care will allow patients and families of the University of South Alabama USA Medical Center and the High Risk OB/GYN and Well Baby units of the USA 86s & 92s Hospital to access quality health information through the use of Android tablets. Nurse 12s and other health care professionals at both facilities will have a means to enhance the current individual educational needs of the patients, parents and family members by accessing the free electronic resources from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

The purpose of this project is to begin developing the health literacy skills necessary for incorporating guidelines into existing or newly developed materials,including by not limited to written publications. Through self-selection, health care professionals, community health 12s, and others who work directly with informational delivery to diverse audiences will be afforded the opportunity to participate in an introductory workshop on health literacy and developing easy-to-read text-based health information.

The SIU Medical Library would like to purchase a 3D printer to create anatomical models for physicians and surgeons in SIU's 9 Clinical Science Departments in Springfield, IL. The models could be used prior to a procedure to train residents working in the clinics, to educate current medical school students about basic anatomy or particular health conditions, and to educate patients about their condition or promote wellness.

Funding is requested for Mary Cabral to attend Systematic Review Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts for Librarians.

The purpose of this project will be to create and establish a symposium to develop high level critical appraisal skills in librarians who work with health care information. Many health sciences librarians provide evidence based medicine EBM training at their home institutions. For most their involvement in this training is limited to teaching; asking questions PICO; searching resources; and only a rudimentary coverage of critical appraisal of clinical information.

Since NN/LM NER Technology Grant #13868 'Empathy Learned Through an Extended Medical Education Virtual Reality Project' and subsequent grant, 'Empathy Learned Through a Physician Assistant Virtual Reality Project,' were such successes at the University of New England UNE, this grant proposal seeks to continue and solidify the project. Specifically, UNE Library Services will collaborate with the College of Osteopathic Medicine COM to compare three virtual reality experiences related to older adult health with first and second year medical students.

The aim of this project is to recruit a cohort of high schoolers to complete the Project SHARE Student Health Advocates Redefining Empowerment curriculum created by the University of Maryland and as key collaborators the 87 will help plan and implement a community outreach event targeting other 87, specifically with the goal of improving awareness and access to NLM resources for this population. The curriculum will be supplemented by local guest speakers and field trips.

The objective of "Health in the Hi-Line" event is to expose the Hill County community and students to different fields in Healthcare. The keynote speaker will address how healthcare degrees and experience can be applied in community related work and community related-positions. A panel with representatives of non-traditional health occupations specific to Hill county and surrounding communities will participate to promote resources and increase knowledge of care available in the community across the hi-line and the Rocky Boy Reservation.