This page includes awards made during the current NNLM award period (May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2026).
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| Project Title | Lead Organization | Project Summary | Project Start Date | Project End Date | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How to Use Your Health Insurance: Development and Dissemination of an Online Learning Module for Young Adults | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences- Center for Health Literacy | This project is a health literacy intervention designed to equip young adults with knowledge to better understand and use their health insurance. A team of health literacy experts will use plain language best practices to develop content for an interactive learning module. Potential users will vet the module content and a prototype to evaluate and improve relevance, understandability, and actionability. The module will be disseminated to students at the university level and include a post-session survey to provide evaluation data and inform future work. | Arkansas | ||
| Identifying barriers to effective tobacco cessation consultation in an inpatient NY regional hospital setting | Albany Medical College | Despite local and national attempts to promote prevention and curb accessibility and use, approximately one in five Americans continues to use tobacco products [1]. The majority of tobacco users are interested in quitting, yet fewer than one-third report using evidence based cessation methods, and fewer than ten percent report a successful quit attempt in the past year[3]. One intervention method is the integration of tobacco cessation into clinical care in an inpatient setting[5]. Recent results from inpatient programs highlight the value to patients, but also indicate the presence… | New York | ||
| Identifying health information gaps and opportunities to support optimum care and education of females with Mullerian Anomalies | Montana State University - Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity | Our project will seek to identify health information gaps and opportunities to support the optimal clinical care and education of females diagnosed with Mullerian Anomalies (a recognized National Institutes of Health Sexual and Gender Minority health disparity population due to Mullerian Anomalies classification as a Difference of Sexual Development1). As females with Mullerian Anomalies (gynecological birth defects found in approximately 7% of the general female population, leading to atypical variations of the uterine and vaginal anatomy2) often experience lifelong gynecological… | Montana | ||
| Impact of COVID 19 on Overall Student Wellbeing: An Examination of Stress Causality on the Basis of Sex, Race, Income & Grade Level | Northern Kentucky University (NKU) | The purpose of this project is to: 1.) Determine the underlying causes for post-traumatic stress in college students at a Southern, regional accredited university and 2.) Develop four 15 to 20-minute virtual Health Literacy mini-curriculum sessions to share with university students, and populations alike. Utilizing the Trauma Symptom Check-list 33, which has six sub-scales (anxiety, depression, sexual abuse trauma index, sleep disturbance, and sexual problems),… | Kentucky | ||
| Improving Access to Oregon Syringe Exchange Heath Information | HIV Alliance | HIV Alliance proposes to implement a new system of digital data collection, management, and dissemination for our syringe exchange program, which serves a diverse population of people who inject drugs (PWID) across seven Oregon Counties (Lane, Douglas, Marion, Josephine, Coos, and Curry). Ultimately, this project will increase access to accurate syringe exchange health information and data dissemination, internally and externally, leading to enhanced transparency and collaboration and will help strengthen our capacity to provide essential infection and overdose prevention services.… | Oregon |