Past Funded Projects

The University of Texas Medical Branch- Moody Medical Library will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Library will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

The project proposed is a health information hub inside a regional Chicago Public Library currently undergoing extensive renovations in a disadvantaged community that suffers from a spate of health conditions. The library, one of only two regional libraries in the city is frequented by 25,000 patrons each month and the goal is to improve both community awareness and health literacy by making information more accessible and culturally relevant to a predominantly African-American community.

As a MLS candidate and graduate intern, the conference will serve as a way for me to learn techniques and strategies to better serve our patrons. I hope to become a Reference and Instruction Librarian, so the CE sessions will allow me to learn different approaches to daily tasks and how to better market our electronic resources to patrons. This conference also hosts events that present opportunities to meet and connect with other librarians from other parts of the country.

This project undertakes outreach activities to further development of, and facilitate access to, a public knowledge repository of information on Indigenous nutritional health. The Research for Indigenous Community Health RICH Center at the University of Minnesota is building a curated database of reliable information resources relevant to Native nutritional health, accessed via a public website.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Despite improvements in medical care and efforts to make healthcare more affordable for all Americans, many still experience significant heath disparities that result in poor health outcomes. Racial and ethnic minorities, those in 95 and/or 98 areas, and those living in medically underserved areas have a high risk for experiencing health related disparities. Access to authoritative health information is vital to ensuring that individuals make appropriate health decisions and reduce their risk of experiencing poor health outcomes.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries will host the NLM traveling exhibition, For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform from January 21March 2, 2019.

Lyme Disease LD is an emerging epidemic in the Upper Midwest. Early identification of LD symptoms is paramount to effective medical treatment; knowledge of symptoms, how LD spreads, and getting immediate medical treatment is the best prevention. This NLM proposal introduces the Ixodes Outreach Project IOP. IOPs goal is to promote awareness of health concerns associated with LD and tick-borne diseases in northeast Minnesotas isolated Arrowhead region. This will be accomplished through educational activities, a citizen-science program, and an undergraduate research experience.

The Making County-Level Health Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable FAIR Initiative will consist of three phases in order to establish and sustain an online interface for local health professionals and librarians to access and analyze county-level health assessment data, as well as educate these individuals on utilizing this resource and creating their own data management plans.

Since 2009, the Health 12s from the Northeast and Eastcentral PA AHECs have been involved in the development and implementation of a curriculum designed to train Community Health Workers CHWs. CHWs contribute to improved health outcomes and quality of life by acting as liaisons or 'connectors' to needed healthcare and other community-based services and resources. To date, AHEC has trained nearly 170 individuals to work in settings such as hospitals, clinics and other community-based organizations.

Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust' will help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify and use reliable health information on the internet. With today's focus on obtaining information online or going mobile, there has become a digital divide for individuals with low health literacy, many of whom are represented among vulnerable populations, using online and other digital tools for health Pew, 2015.

The program is to build awareness about the importance of how participating in clinical research studies can bring about better therapies for diseases. We will briefly outline the research process, and then describe how participatory research is changing how research is done - doing research with, rather than to, research subjects. We will briefly discuss how data science and the National Institutes of Health's precision medicine research program are examples of newer approaches to include 95, underrepresented, or ignored populations in the community in clinical research studies.

Health literacy is a critical pathway to better health outcomes. Yet for countless low-income families, health resources like those on MedlinePlus are simply out of reach. Some are unaware of its existence while others simply lack the digital skills to find what they're looking for. By meeting people where they arewhile waiting at the laundromatLibraries Without Borders LWB strives to empower low-income families with the information they seek in a manner that conforms to their everyday schedule.

Biomedical and health sciences 133s will participate in a training symposium going beyond the basics of research data management. Symposium will provide research enrichment forum which include: data literacy, data wrangling, data visualization, biomedical and health research data management. The symposium will be conducted at UTHSC campus in Memphis, TN. Date: April 18, 2019. Time 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Data discovery is becoming an increasing trend with the availability of public data sets as a part of the open access movement. Data sharing is developing norms and establishing standards to increase research reproducibility. Data management skills are required to execute the data life cycle steps, including creating, accessing, sharing, and re-using data. As health care begins to harness big data and other data sets for discovery purposes, scientists need to understand data management and incorporate best practices into their research.

The Public Library Association PLA, a division of the American Library Association, is the largest association dedicated to supporting the unique and evolving needs of public library professionals. Founded in 1944, PLA serves nearly 10,000 members in public libraries large and small in communities across the United States and Canada, with a growing presence around the world. PLA offers continuing education opportunities, unique public library initiatives, and a biannual conference that welcomes public library staff into meaningful partnership.

This project will deliver a 9 month Healthy Communities Mapping Project. This mapping project will empower 90 high school students enrolled in Eureka!, our 5-year STEM science, technology, engineering, and math college and career readiness program, to discover, map out, and engage with health resources in the Greater Worcester community, using innovative technology. The information and results of this project will be presented to more than 150 girls and their families that are enrolled in Girls Inc.'s After School program.