Subaward Project
NNLM AoU Community Award: Health Literacy for All
This project seeks to make accessible for students, their families, and members of the larger community health information by creating a robust educational learning experience across grade levels. This project will have an in-depth focus on different aspects of biomedical clinical research. We will host for students and parents a module-based curriculum that focuses on the following four target areas:
M1 - Health Literacy
Human Immune system
Role of immunization
Infectious diseases and how to fight them
M2 - Clinical Research
Basics of clinical human subject research
Drug development process
Role of NIH and FDA
M3 - Health Information Access
CDC, WHO, FDA and other authentic sites and how to navigate them
Clintrails.gov - searching for and participating in clinical trials
M4 - Health Inequities
Leading health mortalities and morbidities in context of race and
ethnicities access barriers and health disparities
Middle School Students will create health informational materials including brochures, videos, and presentations in English, Urdu, Arabic, Spanish, and other languages to disseminate health information on the related topics listed in the modules above. The seeks to create and provide rigorous and multi-faceted programing to its students. It then utilizes student engagement to provide information to the larger underrepresented community. Each of the four modules will have a deliverable component produced by students for the community. The project will help familiarize students with digital health literacy and facilitate the same for the larger community through the utilization of technology.