This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
For awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021) please visit Past Funded Projects.
To browse our open funding opportunities please visit Funding Opportunities.
| Name | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
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| “Better Together:” Combatting Health Disparities and COVID-19 in the Arkansas Delta in African American Communities using Authoritative Health Information | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences- Library | The ultimate goal of this project is to connect the African-American community in the Arkansas Delta with authoritative health information resources that increase community knowledge of the COVID-19 virus and vaccination safety. Using physician led presentations, community round tables, and shared experience, the aim is to assist community members in the evolution of their health information seeking practices. The presentations will take place in seven counties across the Delta—Chicot, Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, and St. Francis. The NLM resource MedlinePlus… | Arkansas | ||
| All Together El Paso | Alliance of Border Collaboratives | The Alliance of Border Collaboratives (ABC) proposes the “All Together El Paso”, an education and outreach project in health literacy for underrepresented communities in the county of EL Paso Texas. The goal of the project is to improve the access to NLM and related health information by the community. ABC will give emphasis to the provision of health literacy, digital literacy and related information in a way that is meaningful to the target community by increasing the knowledge of the NLM-All of Us Reaserch Program and… | Texas | ||
| Community Health Outreach: Raising awareness of Preventable Respiratory Disease | Rooks County Health Center | Raise awareness of preventable respiratory illnessin Rooks County, Kansas through amulti-agency outreach initiative involving local schools,libraries, and healthcare entities.The program will focus on providing presentations,visual aides and training programstargeted to different age and education levels. Theprogram will emphasize training inaccessing local and national health information resources. | Kansas | ||
| Community Health Worker Training Initiative | AgriSafe Network | The plan aligns with NNLM’s mission because we aim to improve the public health by providing CHWs equal access to biomedical information specific to the field of agricultural occupational health. This proposal builds AgriSafe’s capacity to meet the workforce training needs of Community Health Workers (CHWs).AgriSafe is a national non-profit that Protects the People who Feed the World. We do this by providing health providers and agricultural workers current health and safety… | Louisiana | ||
| Community Response and Equity Committee City of San Antonio Health Literacy Workgroup | YWCA San Antonio | A survey conducted by Pew Internet and American Life Project advised that approximately eighty percent of adult Internet users have searched online for at least one major health topic in the past year. However, research published regarding the Healthy People 2020 goal of forty-five percent of the population accessing online health information without frustration showed that less than forty percent of those seeking information online could do so without issue. This number decreases when adjusted for race, age, education, and socioeconomic status.… | Texas | ||
| Connecting People to Telehealth Public Library | Lawton Public Library | The Lawton Public Library intends to bridge the digital divide with telehealth kiosks and programming to improve individuals’ access to health information. The primary outreach is to the medically underserved members in Comanche County. The library will connect with people experiencing homelessness, transient populations, lower income, and English as a second language… | Oklahoma | ||
| Emerging Leader Y4 D. Divis | Creighton University | Emerging Leader Award Y4 Deborah Divis | Nebraska | ||
| Emerging Leader Y4 J. Quinn | Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing - Learning Resource Center | Emerging Leader Award Y4 Jaime Quinn | Texas | ||
| Expanding Claire’s Community | #BeMoreLikeClaire | Through partnerships with local libraries, schools, businesses, faith communities and organizations, Claire’s Community (hereafter referred to as CC) will improve public health by providing increased health literacy and equal access to abuse prevention information. CC will be a supportive network of mentors trained in abuse prevention who know how to help young people and adults 1)recognizethe red flags in relationships; 2) understand the role that power and control play in abuse; and 3) preventrelationship abuse, trauma, or a tragic ending. CC curriculum and delivery model… | Kansas | ||
| Fostering diversity awareness in nursing students to improve health disparities for underserved populations in Texas | Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing - Learning Resource Center | Baylor University, Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON), located in Dallas, Texas is partnering with The Family Place and Austin St. Center in delivering quality consumer health literature instruction to underserved individuals in the Dallascommunity. As part of the LHSON mission Rio Grande Valley trip, LHSON is also partnering with Catholic Charities Respite Center and Texas River Ministry in delivering nursing care to meet immediate needs of underserved minorities and in promoting healthy lifestyles for adults and children. To reduce health disparities and promote healthy… | Texas | ||
| Healing Conversations for the “Sick and Tired: ”Mental Health Information for the North Omaha Community | Creighton University | Fannie Lou Hamer famously stated that she was “sick and tired of being sick and tired,”referring tothe impact of racismthat she felt physically, mentally, spiritually, and politically. The proposed project, Healing Conversations for the “Sick and Tired:”Mental Health Information for the North Omaha Community, will engagean African American community in North Omaha in conversations about mental health and share authoritative mental health information from National Library of Medicine resources.The project is a unique partnership between the… | Nebraska | ||
| Health Education and Literacy (HEAL) Project | University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler - Watson W. Wise Medical Research Library | The Health Education and Literacy (HEAL) Project at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler aims to improve access to health information for rural and underserved communities in East Texas. The HEAL Project will have a specific emphasis on health equity using the REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Health) framework from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (Giles et al., 2004). By creating and disseminating information with interactive components, the project seeks to remove barriers to reliable health information that impede health literacy,… | Texas | ||
| How to Use Your Health Insurance: Development and Dissemination of an Online Learning Module for Young Adults | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences- Center for Health Literacy | This project is a health literacy intervention designed to equip young adults with knowledge to better understand and use their health insurance. A team of health literacy experts will use plain language best practices to develop content for an interactive learning module. Potential users will vet the module content and a prototype to evaluate and improve relevance, understandability, and actionability. The module will be disseminated to students at the university level and include a post-session survey to provide evaluation data and inform future work. | Arkansas | ||
| Improving Digital and Health Literacy among Rural Seniors | Decatur Public Library | The goal is to improve digital and health literacy for rural seniors through health literacy classes, interactive digital literacy sessions, one-on-one digital literacy support, and increased social activities. In addition, we hope to decrease social isolation through increased digital literacy resulting in a reduction of health risks associated. The intended audience for DPL’s Increasing Health and Digital Literacy project will be rural seniors aged 65 and older accessing services through Wise County Committee on Aging, although the… | Texas | ||
| Increasing Digital Literacy in Communities Underrepresented in Biomedical Research | Black Girl Health Foundation | The project’s goal is to increase the public's digital literacy (DL) to enable awareness of health resources, focusing on African American (AA) communities, who are often underrepresented in Biomedical Research. The increasing digitization of health information presents challenges in communities where DL and digital health literacy (DHL) rates are low—an issue that has been compounded by extensive health misinformation during the pandemic. This project will increase DHL by raising the low levels of DL within AA communities. To maximize impact, BGHF will… | Arkansas | ||
| Innovate to Communicate: Health Literacy Workforce Training Implementation | University of North Texas Health Science Center - SaferCare Texas | Innovate to Communicate: Health Literacy Workforce Training aims to educate frontline clinicians and hospital leaders in the knowledge and application of health literacy practices. By empowering healthcare with tools and resources for action, Innovate to Communicate promotes health literate organizations in North Texas hospitals. The program includes self-learning modules and a multimedia, interactive workshop in person or via Zoom, using videos, discussion, interactive exercises and role play of clinician-patient scenarios to encourage learning but also attitudinal and behavioral… | Texas | ||
| Meeting the Community Information Needs to Reduce Maternal Morbidity and Mortality | Louisiana State University Health Science Center Shreveport - Library | To advance the progress of medicine and to improve public health, this quality improvement project has two components. One to offer a free virtual symposium providing information on maternal morbidity and mortality issues such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, infectious diseases, and substance abuse to healthcare providers and the community in the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 3 seven states. The other goal is to create infographics at the third-grade reading level when possible, addressing 7-9 common factors in the outcomes of maternal morbidity and… | Louisiana | ||
| Minds Matter: Eliminating Healthcare Stigma | Black Girl Health Foundation | Black Girl Health Foundation’s “Minds Matter: Eliminating Healthcare Stigma” is a program in partnership with community libraries that are designed to reach out to women of color in urban communities and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. Black Girl Health Foundation (BGHF) has already hosted successful Minds Matter events in the following cities in 2021; Harrisburg, New Orleans, Washington D.C., and Houston. During Black History Month (February 2022) Black Girl Health Foundation will return to Washington D.C. and pilot in St… | Arkansas | ||
| Minds Matter: Tackling major issues affecting black women's mental health | Black Girl Health Foundation | Black Girl Health Foundation (BGHF)’s “Minds Matter: Tackling major issues affecting black women's mental health” is a program in partnership with The Dauphin County Library System that is designed to reach out to women of color in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. The goal of the project is to eliminate the healthcare stigma surrounding mental health, promote mental health literacy, and increase information and awareness about NLM’s MedlinePlus resources and NNLM’s “Caring for… | Arkansas | ||
| One Bite at a Time: On the Road to Improve Health Outcomes in Rural Jeff Davis County, Texas | Jeff Davis County Library | Jeff Davis County Library, in partnership with the Food Pantry of Jeff Davis County and Friends of the Jeff Davis County Library, have established a mobile outreach program to bring much-needed resources to the rural and remote county. By utilizing a Charlie Cart mobile kitchen and resources from MedlinePlus, the program will be able to offer a comprehensive food and nutrition curriculum to grades kindergarten through fifth grade. | Texas | ||
| Patient Modules | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences- Center for Health Literacy | The Center for Health Literacy and the North Texas VA Hospital worked together to created health literacy modules for patients. | Arkansas | ||
| Placticas: Raising awareness, increasing health literacy, and partnering to improve inclusion of underrepresented communities in health research | YWCA San Antonio | The project goal is to raise awareness, increase health literacy, and to improve inclusion of underrepresented communities in health research, via the objectives of NAPC All of Us. General project activities include publicity and marketing of the project, recruitment of participants, providing information/education sessions (Placticas), distribution of All of Us/NIH/NLM information, gathering survey information, evaluation, and reporting. Specific activities regarding planning the Placticas, include staff developing the curriculum to address biomedical research and health literacy as… | Texas | ||
| Powering Clinics & Communities with PubMed: Building Library Awareness at a Safety-Net Hospital System | University of North Texas Health Science Center - Library | In alignment with the goals of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Powering Clinics & Communities with PubMed project seeks to build awareness at JPS Health Network off-site clinics around the resources and services offered by JPS Medical Library to further support patient care provided to Tarrant County’s most vulnerable, underrepresented populations. JPS clinics provide a wide range of care including pediatrics, HIV/AIDS, behavioral health, women’s health, oncology, neurology, dental, and pharmaceutical services, and are located throughout the… | Texas | ||
| Preventative Care Family Package: Increasing Equity and Understanding | University of North Texas Health Science Center - Library | The Preventative Care Family Package seeks to help families understand the importance of preventative care through two sets of educational materials distributedto patients of the University of North Texas Health Science Center (HSC)at Fort Worth Pediatric Mobile Clinic(PMC) and North Texas Eye Research Institute (NTERI). Theclinicand institutehaveprovided over 10,000 children, from infants to 18-years old, healthcare services in some of the most vulnerable populations in North Texas. The proposed project focuses on developing and distributing educational materials and tools that… | Texas | ||
| Sustainable Eating& Nutritional Literacy Express | University of North Texas Health Science Center - Library | The Sustainable Eating & Nutritional Literacyprojectseeks to address food insecurity and health literacy related to nutrition. The goals of the projectwill be accomplishedthrough educational programming and practical support throughthe extensionof community gardenstoindividual homesby providing home growing kits, especially those in areas without access to affordable fresh fruit and vegetables in North Texas.The educational materials andprograming will listfoods that can be grown in North Texas arranged byseason,the associated benefits with each food, debunkfoodhealth myths,… | Texas | ||
| Talking Total Farmer Health Podcast | AgriSafe Network | AgriSafe Network proposes to create and promote a new podcast series, Talking Total Farmer Health, targeted at people who work in agriculture. This series will be comprised of short episodes covering a single health and safety topic relevant to agricultural workers. Each episode will also be supplemented with additional material for the listener to explore the topic further in the form of a research guide. The podcast will be distributed through AgriSafe’s Health Hub, a clearinghouse of public health information for agricultural workers and rural health professionals as… | Louisiana | ||
| Understanding structural inequities and their influence on health: Training for Community Health Workers and Trusted Messengers | University of North Texas Health Science Center - School of Public Health | This project includes the development of interactive web-based training modules for Community Health Workers and Trusted Messengers (community leaders with the capacity to influence health in their roles, which may include a broad range of human service providers), as well as general health care providers. The modules will focus on documented structural inequities that have demonstrated an influence on human health and are most often observed as healthy disparities in underserved communities. Traditional health promotion programs have focused on behavior change, and while these are… | Texas | ||
| Y4 Express Data Carpentries for Researchers and Students in Omaha, Nebraska | University of Nebraska Medical Center | The Data Carpentries workshops provide expert instruction for learners to use platforms, tools,and programming languages for the organization and analysis of data. Workshop participants aretrained to use computational techniques to work with large data sets using R, Python, and otherdata cleaning and organizing tools, such as OpenRefine. This project brings together thirtyresearchers and students for a two-day workshop in Omaha, Nebraska. The instructors forworkshops are certified through The Data Carpentries and are recruited to… | Nebraska | ||
| Y4 Health Information - Advancing Mental Health Awareness for Afghan Refugee Women through Mental Health Literacy Workshop | University of Oklahoma Tulsa - Schusterman Library | The project, "Advancing Mental Health Awareness for Afghan Refugee Women through Mental Health Literacy Workshop,” at The University of Oklahoma has a focused mission to promote mental health awareness for marginalized and underserved Afghan refugee women tailored to the unique needs of the population. Given the rapid increase in Afghan refugees, the high prevalence of mental disorders, and widespread misconceptions about mental health among this population, this initiative aims to (1) educate Afghan women refugees to dispel misconceptions and reduce the stigma associated with… | Oklahoma | ||
| Y4 Health Information - Harvey Health Matters: A County-Wide Health Advocacy Collaboration | Newton Public Library Kansas | The Harvey Health Matters Initiative is a comprehensive community health education strategythat includes in-person interactive workshops via a Health Fair, static displays for disseminationin the county, and online resources for added informational support. The initiative is designed tobe multifaceted in order to engage different populations throughout the community with theoverall goal of improved community health and increased health literacy. | Kansas |