Queens Lags Behind the Nation in Late-Sate Breast Cancer detection
Read how the Queens Library is involved in outreach on health information around this health concern through Health Link, winners of the Joseph F. Shurbert Library Excellence Award in 2008 http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/adviscns/rac/award/08qbpl.htm

December 22, 2009
Huffington Post
by Omar Kasrawi
http://bit.ly/8pClny
“To reach out to various ethnic groups, HealthLink goes through the Queens Public Library, which boasts the highest readership in the country, according to the American Library Association. Each branch has unique programs in the local language of the community that it serves. “Nothing [no other program] has used the same kind of community organizing approach to put cancer screening right into the library,” said Bruce Rapkin, HealthLink’s senior scientist.” [REFORMAnet listserv]

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