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CHIC CHAT

On December 2-3, 2004, the Symposium for Community-Based Health Information Outreach was held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The Symposium featured experts on health information outreach including a keynote speech by Eugenie Prime and panel discussions featuring lessons learned from representatives of community-based organizations (CBOs).

Themes addressed included:

• The potential impact of outreach
• The cost effectiveness of health literacy
• Building upon the community's strengths
• Learning lessons from early outreach
• Different approaches to evaluation

Elaine Martin, Javier Crespo, Donna Berryman and Michelle Eberle attended the Symposium. Several New England Resource Library Directors also attended including Marianne Burke from the University of Vermont, David Ginn from Boston University, Kenny Marone from Yale, Elizabeth Schneider from Massachusetts General Hospital. Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi from World Education presented a poster on the NN/LM, NER funded Plain Language Health Information Project. The abstract of the poster may be viewed at: http://medstat.med.utah.edu/symposium/PosterPresentationAbstracts.pdf

You may view the webcast, read the white papers, view poster session abstracts at this site. The proceedings of the Symposium will be published in a special supplement to the Journal of the Medical Library Association.

Please feel free to contact any of the NN/LM, NER staff members who attended for more information about the Symposium.

Michelle Eberle, Consumer Health Information Coordinator
Michelle.Eberle@umassmed.edu

Indoor Air Pollution

http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/indoorair.html Links to information resources on the many sources of indoor air pollution found in homes and other buildings including cleaning and maintenance products, building materials, tobacco smoke, mold, and poor ventilation

Outdoor Air Pollution
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/outdoorair.html
Links to information resources on outdoor air pollution and its possible effects on health

Toxicogenomics
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/toxicogenomics.htm
Links to information on a new scientific sub discipline that combines the emerging technologies of genomics and bioinformatics to identify and characterize mechanisms of action of known and suspected hazardous substances

Please see the complete list of Environmental Health and Toxicology Internet Resource Guides from SIS at: http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/ToxSpecial.html

• Arctic Health
• Arsenic and Human Health
• Biological Warfare
• Chemical Warfare Agents
• Children's Environmental Health Resources
• Environmental Justice
• Indoor Air Pollution
• Outdoor Air Pollution
• September 11th World Trade Center - Lingering Airborne Hazards
• Toxicogenomics
• West Nile Virus - Pesticides Used for Mosquito Control

NLM's Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) has released a Web page containing resources related to education, training and careers in toxicology and environmental health.

"Education, Careers, and Outreach in Toxicology and Environmental Health"
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/Tox/edcotox.htm includes the following topics:

Education and Outreach

• Academic Program Directories
• Continuing Education and Tutorials
• Distance Learning
• Education Outreach
• K-12 Resources
• Miscellaneous Specialized Resources
• General Science Resources

Careers and Professions

• Accreditation Boards
• Career Resources
• Professional Societies

International Resources

- NLM Announcement

Michelle Eberle, Consumer Health Coordinator