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.
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| Name | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
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| Sweet and Salty: A Tale of Imbalance in the Twin States | Gulf South Center for Community Engaged Health Research and Innovation at the University of Southern Mississippi | In supporting NNLM’s initiative to enhance health literacy by increasing public access to reliable health information and improving health professionals’ ability to find and use high-quality biomedical resources, we will leverage engaging, community-driven efforts such as the Sugar and Sodium Shockers to attract and connect individuals with essential NNLM materials. This interactive display raises awareness about the impact of added sugars and sodium on overall health through hands-on activities and engaging visual displays, helping participants identify high-sugar and high-sodium foods,… | Mississippi | ||
| Disaster Preparation: A Prescription for Readiness and Survival | Alliance Charitable Foundation | The goal of this project is to make ample use of the biodiversity and environmental kits produced by NNLM to enhance awareness and readiness of disaster preparedness throughout the state of Mississippi by developing a handbook will be widely distributed both in hard copy and digital form at libraries throughout the state. Mississippi, a tornado-prone, has the geographical misfortune of being situated within a major fault line, (the New Madrid Seismic Zone). In Mississippi, the peak tornado season is historically during the spring months, from March through May, with a secondary season in… | Mississippi | ||
| Certification in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Professionals at University of Puerto Rico Medical Science Campus | Universidad de Puerto Rico | Background and Significance This project aims to establish a fully online, asynchronous "Certification in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Professionals" at the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR-MSC), which could also serve as a valuable resource for the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) in training its members. By leveraging this certification, NNLM could promote and facilitate AI literacy for health information seeking, particularly in consumer health. The certification will be developed and implemented using existing resources at… | Puerto Rico | ||
| NORTH ALABAMA ACCESS TO HEALTH LITERACY AND RESOURCES | North Alabama Area Health Education Center (AHEC) | North Alabama AHEC seeks to increase health and digital literacy among rural, high-need communities within its service area with a focus on minority, older adults and populations with limited access to medical care. The project will include conducting in-person needs assessments, developing a community resource guide, and promoting content from the National Library of Medicine—particularly MedlinePlus, including its Spanish-language resources. Information gathered from the community will be used to inform those who work with these populations about their specific needs, effective… | Alabama | ||
| Resiliencia Comunitaria Post-Emergencias (Community Resilience Post Emergencies) | Apoyo y Servicios Integrados, Inc. | (Updated - Nick Vera - 8/28/25) Community Resilience Post-Emergencies is a community-based initiative led by Apoyo y Servicios Integrados Inc. (ASI) aimed at addressing the mental health needs of Spanish-speaking populations in Puerto Rico following natural disasters and public health emergencies. This project provides mental health first aid training to community members, empowering them to recognize signs of trauma and stress, deliver immediate emotional support, and effectively utilize authoritative mental health information regarding anxiety, PTSD,… | Puerto Rico | ||
| '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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| BE WELL at NPL: Health Information | Nashville Public Library | BE WELL at NPL advances health literacy in the Davidson County by providing access and outreach to free wellness programs and health resources. BE WELL at NPL aligns its activities with the local health priority areas in Davidson County’s Community Health Improvement Plan. Notably, NPL partners with Get Covered TN to facilitate on-site health insurance enrollment each year, which has become a nationally recognized model for public libraries. BE WELL at NPL plans to launch new services that will help address the high rates of uncontrolled… | Tennessee | ||
| Coastal Center Library and Information Outreach | Parents and Guardians Association of the Coastal Center | The following outreach program aims to enhance the quality of life and health for individuals with disabilities in South Carolina by providing access to high-quality health information and resources. The project aims to promote awareness of healthier special needs citizens and communities in our state. Our team plans to achieve this through a physical and online library that will be populated with information resources and other high quality, easy to use, and applicable online resources for individuals with disabilities and their caregivers. We will pay… | South Carolina | ||
| Comprehensive Health Information Outreach- Tennessee | East Tennessee State University - Medical Center | This project will provide consumer health training and consumer health brochures based on Medline Plus to rural public libraries, Remote Area Medical clinics (RAMUSA.org), local health departments, rural federally supported medical clinics, rural dental clinics, faith-based clinics, an African American Community Center, and a church outreach and downtown city festival (Corazon) for Latinx people in Tennessee. These groups will be trained to use MedlinePlus. They will search MedlinePlus and identify valuable consumer health information and print what they want to use in their agency… | Tennessee | ||
| COVID Learning, Engagement & Assistance for all Neighborhoods (CLEAN) Program Extension | The Institute for Community, Youth and Family Services, Inc. | The Institute for Community, Youth and FamilyServices Inc. (The Institute) proposes to expand our pilot CLEAN program through this extension designed to bring COVID-19 resources and education to rural communities in Alabama that lack health services. By partnering with service providers, churches, local government and the public housingauthority we will ensure that trainings andmaterials meet immediate needs of the community andhelp strengthen local healthinfrastructure/resources. The Institute will offertrainings, supplies, planning, and budgetarysupport to our enrolled community… | Alabama | ||
| Creating a Sustainable and Sharable Disaster Information Services Repository Website | University of South Carolina School of Information Science | The School of Information Science at the University of South Carolina (iSchool/UofSC) requests $19,872 for a one-year Region 2 Emergency Preparedness and Response Award to create and implement a sustainable and sharable disaster information service repository. The project aims are to: 1) create a repository website to document a summary of four research findings on libraries’ and librarians’ services before, during, and after disasters, including hurricanes, floodings, and wildfires; 2) promote the use of the Network of National Library of Medicine (NNLM) and… | South Carolina | ||
| 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… | Alabama | ||
| 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,… | Tennessee | ||
| 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… | Virgin Islands | ||
| 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… | Tennessee | ||
| 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)—… | Mississippi | ||
| Health Impacts of Lead Exposure: Enhance, Engage, & Empower Community Awareness | University of Florida | The proposed slate of activities complements a National Library of Medicine (NLM) traveling exhibit entitled “This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities.”[1] which explores how citizens have confronted lead industries, housing authorities, and elected officials to protect their health against the dangers of lead poisoning. The… | Florida | ||
| Health Information Literacy Online | Sullivan County Public Library | This program seeks to provide Sullivan County seniors and caregivers with instruction on researching reliable health information online, how to improve health information literacy, and how to use library services for assistance in health-related research. Participants in this two-hour seminar will learn ways to improve internet search methods for reliable health information, how to navigate NLM resources like MedlinePlus, DailyMed and PubMed, and how library staff and services can help in finding accurate and… | Tennessee | ||
| Health Literacy Integration Initiative | AdventHealth University | Updated: 8/28/25. Health literacy is a critical component of patient empowerment, effective healthcare delivery, and improved public health outcomes. This proposal seeks funding to establish a comprehensive Health Literacy Integration Initiative at AdventHealth University, a faith-based institution affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. As a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), AHU serves a diverse student population, with 30.6% of Fall 2024 enrollment identifying as Hispanic. This initiative will provide a series of health literacy events,… | Florida | ||
| Health Literacy Student Fellows Program | Indian River State College - Pruitt Campus Library | Indian River State College (IRSC) has a need to educate its students in the skills of health literacy. The community that the college serves has a need for health literacy trainers and ambassadors from all ages and economic backgrounds in order to make a substantive impact on the St. Lucie County community. IRSC's proposed project, Health Information Student Fellows Program, offers the opportunity to address both of these needs in an innovative and meaningful way. In Phase One, students will receive instruction on MedlinePlus as well as learn… | Florida | ||
| Healthier Mississippi Podcast | Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library | Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library proposes to create a health information podcast to help disseminate relevant and accurate health information to the citizens of Warren County and Mississippi. We aim to leverage the library’s position as a trusted arbiter and provider of information and provide a platform for local health officials, healthcare providers and other experts to spread accurate information about health issues that may be relevant to the local listening community. | Mississippi | ||
| Healthy Men, Healthy Families | Clayton County Library System | The Clayton County Library System proposes a program that will help to improve health information literacy, and expand our library outreach to men providing information, educational sessions and interactive programs using NNLM products, such as MedlinePlus, MedlinePlus Men's Health and ClinicalTrials.gov. We'll also enhance our collection of men's health books & magazines and offer in-person and virtual seminars & workshops partnering with our county health organizations, churches, fraternities and sororities, and community leaders to… | Georgia | ||
| Improving Access to Chronic Disease Information and Education to Decrease Preventable Death in the Lower Mississippi Delta | Sharkey Issaquena Community Hospital | Sharkey Issaquena Community Hospital in Rolling Fork, MS, will add educational and informational outreach efforts to include chronic diseases of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. These efforts will concentrate on prevention through education, physical fitness, and healthy eating habits. This will bring hands on, patient centered training, cooking instruction, and subject matter experts to reduce the prevalence of mortality related to chronic illnesses in the counties of Sharkey and Issaquena. Additionally, one on one education and evaluations will be offered… | Mississippi | ||
| Improving Access to Health Information through a Community Center Collaboration | University of Florida | To support the health information literacy needs of the local community, this grant proposal partners the University of Florida’s Health Science Center Libraries (HSCL) (https://library.health.ufl.edu/) and The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (PCCNCF) (https://gainesvillepride.org/). The project’s overarching aim is to improve access to quality health information for underserved populations in North Central Florida, specifically Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual Plus (LGBTQIA+) populations through the development of an updated health… | Florida | ||
| Improving emergency preparedness practices among students in south Georgia | Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation, Inc. | In Georgia, especially in coastal Georgia, the residents are at higher risk of being impacted by natural disasters such as hurricanes (with at least one episode per year). Hurricanes, floods, drought, earthquakes, and other weather-related emergencies are life-threatening events, and many people are not aware of existing information on how to prepare and respond to emergency situations. This project aims to promote awareness, preparedness, education, training, and safety coordination to improve responses to natural… | Georgia | ||
| Innovative Initiatives- Promoting Diversity in Nursing and Health | Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association, Inc. | This second annual scholarship luncheon will focus on the data-driven, innovative nursing projects that have been, or are being,implemented by the Midlands of South Carolina Black Nurses Association. This includes the pilot "Mini-Nursing Academy,"through the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. as well as the COVID-19 Photovoice Project that was funded by the RobertWood Johnson Foundation, and the recently formed nursing partnerships that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion in nursing.These initiatives highlight the ongoing disparities in nursing workforce,… | South Carolina |