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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts & Storytelling for Health and Wellness | University of South Alabama - Charles M. Baugh Biomedical Library | The Creative Arts and Storytelling in Health and Wellness project brings together campus, health system, and community partners to provide education and awareness about ways to integrate the arts in healthcare, health education and promotion, and individuals’ health and wellness. The goal of the project is to provide opportunities for individuals and organizations to learn about and engage with creative ways to communicate about health and healthcare and increase wellness through visual arts, comics (graphic medicine), and personal narratives. To achieve this goal, a one-day summit… | |||
| Developing a Dialect and Accent Digital Technologies Library (DADTL) | Meharry Medical College | Even though health care information (HCI) may be accessed online, due to various interdependent and compounding barriers, disadvantaged populations are still unable to acquire this health information at the same level as those who can access information online. A significant amount of disadvantaged populations and, by extension, their families and the community at large utilize their local hospital for their health care and HCI, but dialects, languages, and accents among patients and health care workers (HCWs) can impede communication and decrease the credibility, accessibility,… | |||
| Enhancing disaster Relief through Amateur Radio and Health Education in St. Thomas US Virgin Islands. | Healthdove, Inc. | Emergencies and disasters in the US Virgin Islands include earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, riots, marine and terrestrial search and rescue operations, landslides, bomb threats, chemical spills, nuclear radiation, and war. Some are caused by natural forces, some result from human error, and some are deliberate acts of violence. There is no place that is safe from a threat of disaster. There are multiple disasters occurring in the world today. Closer to home hurricanes Erma and Maria in the territory in 2017 and prior hurricanes. Fortunately, loss of life from… | |||
| Exhibit Grant at 2023 Rural Health Association of Tennessee Annual Meeting | East Tennessee State University - Medical Center | The project team will exhibit at the Rural Health Association of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. MedlinePlus.gov and PubMed.gov as well as other NLM resources will be promoted. The team will make connections with the rural health workforce of Tennessee. The conference will be November 15-17, 2023. Because of pass attendance by the librarians from ETSU relationships have developed. One librarian takes care of the archives for RHAT and another librarian is on the conference planning committee and runs the… | |||
| Friendship Bench: Community-Based Mental Health Support and Literacy in Lowndes County, Mississippi | Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System - Columbus-Lowndes Public Library | (Updated: 8/28/25) The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System proposes to implement the Friendship Bench Initiative, a community-driven model designed to address mental health needs, reduce stigma, and improve health literacy in Lowndes County, Mississippi. By training trusted senior volunteers to provide peer counseling at designated benches in public spaces, the project will integrate National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources—including MedlinePlus, PubMed, NNLM Reading Club, and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)—… |