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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| Web-based Education on HPV and Cancer | Team Maureen | With support from the NNLM Region 7 Grant, Team Maureen will make updates and additions to our web-based educational tool on HPV and Cancer to allow for more effective engagement with patients and the public. Improvements will provide better ways to interact with new knowledge, a ‘find local health care providers’ function for vaccination and screening providers (no matter where you are!) and most importantly, all materials will be translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Haitian-Creole, Simple Chinese, and Arabic. All of these will help reduce barriers to… | Massachusetts | ||
| . Promoting Flu Vaccines for LGBT Community Members in Pennsylvania | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center | While existing health disparities make it critical for LGBTQ people to engage in preventive care such as flu vaccinations, barriers to care including past or anticipated discrimination reduce the rate at which many LGBTQ people consume healthcare. The 2020 Pennsylvania LGBTQ Health Needs Assessment demonstrated that less than half of LGBTQ Pennsylvanians receive an annual flu shot. Though LGBTQ people were at increased risk with regards to COVID-19, other indicators including the Pennsylvania LGBTQ COVID-19 Vaccine Survey showed that LGBTQ Pennsylvanians were often less likely to… | Pennsylvania | ||
| 'Stop the Bleed' Training for Rural Georgia Communities | Mercer University School of Medicine - Savannah Campus | Uncontrolled major bleeding is one of the leading causes of preventable death in trauma care (Bedri et al., 2021). Studies have shown that hemorrhage-controlled training, such as the nationally recognized Stop the Bleed® campaign, can be vital for training laypersons in life-saving hemorrhage-control techniques (Pellegrino et al., 2020; Jones et al., 2020), especially in rural areas where the delay in receiving medical aid from medical personnel may take longer than in urban areas (Bedri et al., 2021; Jones et al., 2020). Public libraries, as free and accessible centers of community… | Georgia | ||
| “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 | ||
| #GetCarded for Health | Las Vegas-Clark County Library District | The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District proposes to create a county-wide initiative called “#GetCarded for Health.” We will gather existing and new Library District health and wellness-based programming, expand online resources in the medical database, and sponsor health and wellness classes. | Nevada | ||
| ¬A Cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence Tool to Improve Chronic Kidney Disease Care in West Virginia | West Virginia University Research Corporation | Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) affects more than 1 in 7 adults in the United States (US) and leads to significant morbidity, mortality, and use of scarce healthcare resources. Despite the high prevalence of CKD, as many as 9 in 10 people with CKD are unaware of their disease. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System, West Virginia (WV) is ranked as the least-healthiest state in the U.S. with 4.6% of the… | West Virginia | ||
| A collaborative development Resource Guide to equip medically undeserved consumers with Information about COVID-19 | Alliance Charitable Foundation | The Alliance Charitable Foundation proposes todevelop and disseminate the Halt COVID Resource Guide containing an array of relevant resources, tools and services organized by topic area,t geographical location, vaccination sites, transportation accessibility and other resources with an overarching goal of thwarting thedevastating effects of COVID 19 of the populationliving within an 8-county target area served by thehealth-oriented nonprofit. | Mississippi | ||
| A Resilience-building Interprofessional Partnership in an Academic Health System Museums, Libraries and Nurses Working Together | NYU Health Sciences Library | This project will provide nurses continuing education through workshops led by museum educators, both on site at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and virtually. The project will introduce a discussion and activity format centered around images of museum works that can be adapted for use in clinical and workplace settings. | New York | ||
| A Roadmap to Early Cancer Detection for the Medically Underserved | DetecTogether | The lack of early cancer detection among underserved communities and underinsured demographics is significant and growing. Our 3 Steps Detect early cancer detection education, which includes MedLinePlus as a trusted resource, is an important piece in the larger solution to improve health information literacy and increase the ability of people to find and use health information. We are requesting $13,000 toward this project to bring 3 Steps Detect lifesaving education and the use of MedLinePlus to medically underserved, urban communities in Worcester County utilizing the successful… | Massachusetts | ||
| Addressing Health Misinformation in NE Ohio's African American Communities Through a Community Needs Assessment | Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition | Misinformation has been deadly to the African American community. The effects of misinformation have been addressed by the U.S. Surgeon General, especially due to misinformation and disinformation regarding COVID-19. The Northeast Ohio Black Health Coalition addressing health information in NE Ohio African American communities is our way to best inform the community regarding best practices and reliable sources of accurate information. We will assess the needs of the African American Community in order to understand the impact of misinformation and to provide accurate… | Ohio | ||
| Advancing Climate Resilience, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice: A Public and Academic Libraries Partnership in San Diego County | San Diego Public Library | Goal 1: San Diego Public Library, in collaboration with Circuit Libraries, will partner with the NNLM All of Us Program Center and All of Us, UCSD to host 3 climate focused author talks in different Circuit Libraries, in order to engage with community members in enrollment and retention for the All of Us Research Program. | California | ||
| AI-HEAL: Artificial Intelligence in Health Education and Learning | University of Tennessee Health Science Center | The goal of this project is to train faculty in the College of Health Professions on integrating AI tools into health education and research. Through five interactive seminars, faculty will learn to apply machine learning models and National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources to enhance teaching and clinical decision-making. The project will also develop an online repository of training materials for sustained learning and accessibility | Tennessee | ||
| 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 | ||
| Answering a Call to Action: Preparing PublicLibraries to Respond to the Opioid Crisis | Florida State University School of Information | Opioid overdose deaths rose by approximately 35percent in Florida from 2019 to 2020- an increase attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic (Byrnes, 2021).t In 2019, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) applied for, and was awarded, an IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) grant to equip public libraries as first responders in the Opioidepidemic. As output of this grant, a toolkit wasproduced that provides general action steps forpublic libraries to support their communitiesthrough the crisis. For this application MargaretZimmerman, an Assistant Professor with the FloridaState… | Florida | ||
| Are you prepared? Resources for natural disasters. | Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation, Inc. | We will develop a traveling exhibit for rural Georgia public libraries to educate individuals on preparedness and safety response to natural disasters and local emergencies. The exhibit information will be based on the content developed for the NLM funded training program the Institute for Health Logistics & Analytics (IHLA) previously developed to educate Georgia Southern University students on disaster preparedness and response. The exhibit will consist of three large portable panels (2.5’x6.5’). Our in-house exhibit designer will design the panels with engaging graphics… | Georgia |