Past Funded Projects

The Public Health Museum is a non-profit educational and cultural museum located in a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the grounds of Tewksbury Hospital founded in 1854. The mission of the Public Health Museum is two-fold: to educate the public about the achievements and contributions of public health in preventing disease and improving the health of individuals and communities in Massachusetts and worldwide; and to inspire students, 133s, health care workers and 131s to build upon the past and continue to advance the future of public health.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of instructors who will teach MLA CE classes for the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.

The exhibit will have trifolds on NLM mobile, Pubmed Health, Pubmed, Medline Plus, Toxtown, and other pertinent materials. A portion of the handouts will focus on the NLM materials that support education of youth and 87.

Dell Medical School, which opened in June 2016, is charting new ground when it comes to developing value-based models of care. The school has made a commitment to improve the health outcomes of the community it serves and to reach beyond traditional health care models to identify and address the social determinants of health.

Technology with the Times will allow more access to technology improving the knowledge of staff, patients, and parents/caregivers. This will improve the treatment of patients, the sharing of information, and facilitate increased collaboration and education of staff, patients, and families. Through a home program development, work with families, and staff training information from the National Library of Medicine will be more efficiently and effectively shared. This combined with our knowledge and expertise in occupational, physical and speech and language therapy to help those we serve.

The Augusta-Richmond Community Health Outreach Project will provide reliable and free access health information to residents within the Richmond County. Using the public libraries as a host venue, various speakers and officials will teach participants about health issues relevant to the Augusta area such as opioid use, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, domestic abuse, and diabetes. Over six months, there will be six presentations about the selected topics with two of the presentations being about opioid use.

The 1st PCOM Wellness Fest is scheduled for September 22nd on the Philadelphia campus adjacent to our Healthcare Center. It is an effort to target millennials with a community health fair that is close to home. Millennial deaths from 103 in Philadelphia are rising and the fair will include addiction and treatment information chats. While literature suggests millennials avoid doctors, PCOM views this as an opportunity to offer its clinics as a choice for primary care.

The Community Health in the Library CHIL: Reinvigorating Outreach at the UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences project will improve access to high quality, reliable health information for the city of Rockford, Illinois and the surrounding Winnebago County community. UIC's Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, hereafter referred to as the Crawford Library, has had a long history of participating in community outreach, educating the community on the National Library Medicine NLM resources, and housing a Consumer Health Collection specifically for the community.

This project will provide funding to allow the Walter W. Stiern Library at California State University, Bakersfield CSUB, to support the RN Explorers Program. The RN Explorers Program is part of the Boy Scouts of America Learning for Life and career education for young men and 92 ages 14 through 20.

This award supports an additional travel day on trips scheduled for Assistant Professor Sigrid Brudie of the Alaska Medical Library for public library training sessions. The desired outcome is that residents will be able to identify reliable and appropriate health information sources to meet their needs, and know that their local library and librarians are an access point for these resources.

The Expanding Research Data Management Proposal seeks to offer training on the research data management lifecycle to librarians and 133s. The training courses will be offered by librarians at the Health Sciences Libraries HSL at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who have a breadth and depth of knowledge to support this work, with experience related to data curation, data management, federal funding compliance, and research reproducibility See Appendix for Description of Setting and Summary of Librarian Expertise.

Expose the Hill County community and students to different fields in Healthcare via a talk by a keynote speaker and panel of reps from non-traditional health occupations

This project will host a speaker series featuring two local mental health professionals who will offer presentations on anxiety and depression. The series will include six sessions aimed at different age groups: teenager/young 88, 88, and 89.

Attend and participate in the ALA Midwinter Session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity