Browse recordings of past NNLM webinars from Jan 1, 2020 - current. To see curated playlists by topic, audience, or region, visit the NNLM YouTube channel.
Region 1 Funding Program Office HoursRegion 1 staff are available to answer your specific questions regarding the call for applications for the upcoming engagement and training project awards. We'd love to hear about your project ideas, answer questions about the application process, and discuss NNLM training and NLM resources available to enhance your application prior to submitting your application. Date: March 13, 2024 |
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Blue Marble Librarians: Libraries Helping Their Communities Prepare for Extreme Weather and Foster Socially and Ecologically Conscious CultureJoin us for a talk with four leading members of the Blue Marble Librarians, a Massachusetts based group of librarians focused on sustainability, environmental education, and extreme weather preparedness. Learn about the history of the group, their involvement with the Boston-based nonprofit, Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW), CREW Climate Hubs, the annual Climate Prep Week, and how to get involved with these environmental initiatives. They will also cover the impacts that climate change has on mental health. Participants will come away with concrete examples of what they… |
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Counting Every Death When Every Death Counts: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Hurricane Michael Excess MortalityDisasters disproportionately impact vulnerable populations, and vulnerable communities are likelier to experience secondary disasters such as economic downturns and excess mortality. Dr. Blake Scott, a researcher at the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, discusses the impact of 2018 Hurricane Michael on vulnerable communities. The purpose of this study was to determine if the area impacted by Hurricane Michael (2018) experienced excess mortality and what were the root causes of those changes in health. About the SpeakerBlake Scott… |
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Providing Multilingual Health InformationThis 1-hour session is designed to assist librarians and others who work with diverse populations in locating health information. The resources presented are selected for their emphasis on providing information in the preferred language of the population. Participants will have the opportunity to become familiar with the features and scope of several Internet resources. This presentation addresses increasing health information access and use, along with increasing health equity by highlighting information from National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus health information… |
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Environmental Health Literacy: An Engaged Framework for Understanding and ActionEnvironmental health literacy (EHL) is an emerging framework for building knowledge and skills that can reduce environmental exposures and improve human health outcomes. Drawing from such fields as communication, education, and participatory research, EHL provides a bidirectional evaluation tool that respects local context while also building community and research capacity. Whether informing the development and dissemination of research report-back materials and other informative products, driving the development and evaluation of interventions, or establishing a means of identifying… |
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How PubMed Works: ATMThe How PubMed Works: Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) session addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database. During this 90-minute session about ATM we'll go behind-the-scenes in PubMed with an in-depth explanation of:
Date: February 29, 2024 |
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NLM Office Hours: PubMedJoin us for the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 1pm Eastern Time. This session is focused on PubMed, and will include a brief presentation by Alex Sticco from NLM’s Controlled Vocabulary Services Program, discussing recent developments and improvements to the automated MEDLINE indexing process for PubMed. Following the presentation, product staff from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed team, the Controlled Vocabulary Services Program, and more will be available to answer your questions about automated… |
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How PubMed Works: MeSHThe How PubMed Works: MeSH session addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database. Date: February 27, 2024 |
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PATIENTS Program Part 2: Continuous Engagement after the PATIENTS Professors Academy: Methods and PathwaysThis is part two of a series, continued from the From Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health webinar on Jan 30, 2024 In authentic community-engaged research, continuous engagement in does not end when a grant ends. In this webinar, PATIENTS Professors will share how they have helped their academic research partners improve engagement and provide resources to support patient advocacy, grant writing, and community engagement workshops. After attending this session, participants will be able to challenge narratives about how different communities participate… |
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How PubMed Works: SelectionThe How PubMed Works: Selection session addresses increasing health information access and use by highlighting information about the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed bibliographic database. This 90-minute session covers issues and concerns surrounding the current publishing landscape; the selection criteria for the different components of the PubMed database and NLM responsibilities and practices in collecting and providing access to the biomedical literature. MEDLINE and PMC staff will be available to answer audience questions. Date: February 21, 2024 |