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Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
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How Community Health Workers fit in Team Base Care | April 10, 2024 | Community Health Workers (CHWs) have been around for many decades. CHWs are vital to our healthcare and are essential in helping communities have better health outcomes. This webinar will explore how to best utilize CHWs in your organization.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
From Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health | April 10, 2024 | Learn the basics of evidence-based public health (EBPH) and essential steps of the EBPH process through the lens of NLM and other resources in this one- hour webinar.
Platform/Location: Webex |
NLM Office Hours: Dataset Catalog | April 11, 2024 | Join NLM staff and learn about the Dataset Catalog.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
Unveiling the Power of Community Partnerships: Transforming Black Maternal Health Outreach | April 11, 2024 | How does a public library reach its community with Black Maternal Health information? In this webinar, Sarah A. Montrichard-Ramón Cabrera from the Brooklyn Public Library will provide information about successful past and upcoming public programs on Black Maternal Health. She will be joined by Nuratu Otulana, who will share their experience collaborating with the library. This webinar will share best practices for community partnerships around health topics and provide examples of how attendees can implement similar partnerships in their community.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
Course 4: Building Successful Collaborations with the Communities: Grassroots Leadership | April 12, 2024 - April 26, 2024 | This 2-week online course uses the knowledge and tools presented in previous courses of the series, and explores the process to construct a framework for a community development initiative and the role of librarians in grassroots leadership activism.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Life After 2 Losses: Support Advocacy and Health Literacy for a Healthy Pregnancy | April 17, 2024 | This live event highlights programming from Life After 2 Losses, a non-profit organization with the mission to prevent reproductive & health injustices through the support and empowerment of women & families in the community. The organization received a grant from the Region 1 Medical Library to continue their mission of 1) changing the narrative surrounding pregnancy loss 2) education and raising awareness 3) advocacy efforts and 4) grief support.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
Environmental Chemicals and Breast Cancer: What Do We Know? What Can We Do? | April 17, 2024 | Join guest speaker Julia Brody, director of Silent Spring Institute, to (1) review the science on how everyday chemical exposures can influence breast cancer risk, (2) identify resources to help people reduce their exposures by taking simple actions as individuals and community members, and (3) learn how misleading information, including from sources that people expect to be reliable, can play into industry’s dismissive strategies. Platform/Location: Zoom |
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On-Demand Classes
Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
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Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) Changes and PubMed Searching On-Demand | On-demand through August 31, 2024 | Learn how to accommodate for vocabulary changes over time in your comprehensive searches of PubMed. This 1.5 CE credit on-demand course, offered through the NNLM Moodle platform, provides answers and allows participants to engage with exercises to practice what you learn. Platform/Location: Moodle |
MedlinePlus Tutorial for Librarians and Health Educators | On-demand through November 1, 2025 | This interactive, narrated tutorial provides a tour of the MedlinePlus website and takes about 1 hour to complete.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Workshop On-Demand | On-demand through April 17, 2026 | This on-demand workshop offered in Moodle is intended for those without much experience working in research data management and will provide an overview of the NIH policy, research data management basics, and related resources.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Preprints: Accelerating Research (On-Demand) | On-demand through October 16, 2025 | What are preprints, and how are they changing how biomedical research results are shared? This 1-hour, online, self-paced course introduces preprints and how they can be used in literature searching and in sharing your research results with others.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
Prescription and Over the Counter Drugs: Supporting Patients with Evidence-Based Information | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | This 1 credit hour on-demand course provides an introduction to three free resources from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health: the NIDA website, DailyMed and LactMed.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
PubChem (On-Demand) | On-demand through July 21, 2024 | PubChem is the National Library of Medicine’s open chemistry database and the largest freely accessible reference tool for chemical information. This 2 MLA CE online, self-paced course is for anyone interested in chemical information walks users through the major functions and features of PubChem with interactive exercises and quizzes.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
PubMed Essentials On-Demand 2022-2024 | On-demand through December 31, 2024 | If you’re new to PubMed or just want a refresher, this online class is designed for you. This is a 1 MLA CE, self-paced course offered via Moodle. The class is available 24/7. The class is made up of 10 short units that include videos, exercises and quizzes. The class gives you the chance to explore PubMed at your own pace with guided tours and exercises.
Platform/Location: Moodle |