Past Funded Projects

The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to support public libraries in meeting the health information needs of their patrons and engaging their communities around the Research Program. This preconference will discuss programming ideas, funding opportunities, and community engagement for public libraries around issues of health literacy, precision medicine, and . Participants will learn about the Research Program and its goal of addressing health disparities and advancing medical research.

Exhibit at the North Carolina Veterinary Conference

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will provide training to five addiction treatment centers in eastern Pennsylvania on addiction-related care for the LGBT community, as well as connect the treatments to resources available through MedlinePlus.

The goal of this project is to develop accurate health information concerning the effects of systemic diseases on the oral health of 86 and/or how the oral health of a child can affect the prognosis of a systemic disease, and to make this information available to families in a user-friendly format. Having this information will encourage parents to seek dental care for their 86 with systemic diseases. Dental health professionals will create this information, written at an appropriate level for a consumer, and build a dynamic website devoted to providing such information.

This project will provide a staff development day at the Bangor, ME Public Library to focus on improving service to patrons dealing with poverty, housing insecurity, and mental illnesses such as addiction. Working with these populations requires a set of interpersonal communication techniques that may differ in some ways from the techniques used by staff when dealing with other populations. Interpersonal communication strategies that staff can quickly use to avoid escalating or begin de-escalating situations will be developed.

Promoting Science Literacy through New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians will increase accessibility to and provide sustainability for the New England Science Boot Camp for Librarians program, an immersive, two-and-a-half-day event that regularly draws between fifty-five and seventy librarians.

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Improve the value of research produced by students, faculty, and staff at WSU Spokane by creating a data-viz lab, offering hands-on workshops, and offer data consultations.

This project will allow the Community Memorial Health System CMHS Medical Library to purchase, install, and manage a dynamic digital signage system. The project will increase the capacity of the CMHS Medical Library to provide awareness of Library resources that are directly relevant to academic achievement e.g., new textbooks, journals, databases; class teaching schedules; CMHS graduate medical education news; National Library of Medicine resources and services and improved patient care outcomes.

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

Professional development to attend Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections on Health Equity at the ALA Midwinter conference in Seattle, WA, January 2019.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to support public libraries in meeting the health information needs of their patrons and engaging their communities around the Research Program. This preconference will discuss programming ideas, funding opportunities, and community engagement for public libraries around issues of health literacy, precision medicine, and . Participants will learn about the Research Program and its goal of addressing health disparities and advancing medical research.

Stated in the mission and goals of the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine ARCOM is the desire to recruit and train medical students who are focused on service to the underserved. This aim is important because Arkansas is one of the lowest ranking states in physician-to-population ratio.

This project undertakes outreach activities to further development of, and facilitate access to, a public knowledge repository of information on Indigenous nutritional health. The Research for Indigenous Community Health RICH Center at the University of Minnesota is building a curated database of reliable information resources relevant to Native nutritional health, accessed via a public website.