Class Recordings

Health Literacy! It Just Got Graphic

Health Literacy! It Just Got Graphic! 
Presented by Jamie Stanfield, Business & Health Librarian, University of Southern Mississippi 

Poor health literacy affects healthcare decision making. Medical jargon can be frightening and some carry stigmas. Lengthy texts can confuse more than help someone looking to understand their healthcare journey. Graphic Medicine can provide a bridge to more difficult texts. Join us for an interactive workshop where we will discuss graphic medicine for all ages and learn tips to help others become more health literate. You…
Date: October 20, 2021

Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy: Understanding the Connection

How are health communication and health literacy connected? How can you be more effective in providing health information to consumers, patients, clients, library patrons and your community? This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from NLM, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.

New Media, New Advocacy: How Racial Bias Is Being Tackled In Medicine

Webinar Description

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped highlight numerous healthcare inequities that exist. Data from early in the pandemic showed that African Americans were dying from COVID-19 at higher rates, highlighting health inequities that have existed for years. And unfortunately, statistics like this about health disparities are numerous. 

Black mothers are consistently more likely to die from complications surrounding pregnancy and childbirth. “Racial-corrections” in spirometry algorithms assume that Black, Asian, and…
Date: October 13, 2021

ClinicalTrials.gov for Librarians

ClinicalTrials.gov is the openly available federal registry and results database of publicly and privately funded clinical studies conducted in the United States and around the world. This class is eligible for Consumer Health Information Specialization continuing education credit awarded by the Medical Library Association.

Less Ostrich, more Owl. Five Steps to Quickly Improve Your Library's Ability to Respond to a Sudden Disaster

This webinar is part of the NNLM Information Access Series.

In honor of National Preparedness Month in September, Region 1 is pleased to host a disaster preparedness webinar for all types of libraries.  This webinar is designed to improve your Library's ability to respond to a sudden disaster by laying out five easy steps to follow.  

The guest speaker will be Dan Wilson, Associate Director for Collections & Library Services at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Library. Dan was the Coordinator for the Network of the National Library of…
Date: September 22, 2021

Incorporating Health Literacy in Community Engagement (Sept 8, 2021)

Written and digital materials are a fundamental component of engaging the community in health education programming. Unfortunately, many adults lack the skills they need to understand and use these materials, many of which do not incorporate common health literacy and plain language best practices. The UAMS Center for Health Literacy has a suite of written and digital materials to engage patients and community members to better care for themselves and improve health literacy skills. These resources were designed to empower individuals to communicate more…
Date: September 8, 2021

Unpacking the Role of Preprints and Peer Review (Aug 11, 2021)

"Unpacking the Role of Preprints and Peer Review in Scholarly Inclusion" is presented by Ibraheem Ali, PhD, Sciences Data Librarian at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Ibraheem completed his bachelors in Biology at California State University Fresno, his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at UCSF and his post-doc focusing on epigenetics and transcription regulation at the J David Gladstone Institutes. In his current role as Sciences Data Librarian at UCLA, he teaches data visualization methodologies for biosciences researchers, provides advising on various issues in…
Date: August 11, 2021

Youth perceptions of online harassment (July 14, 2021)

Presenter Description: Abigail L. Phillips, PhD is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her general research interests include youth, social media, cyberbullying, empathy, librarianship, libraries, maker edu, neurodiversity, advocacy, and mental health. Abigail received her PhD in Information Science from the School of Information at Florida State University in the Spring of 2016. Before beginning the PhD program, she worked as public librarian at a rural library system in Southwest…
Date: July 14, 2021

Establishing Partnerships to Promote LGBTQIA+ Health (June 9, 2021)

From Being to Doing: Anti-Racism As Action at Work