Past Funded Projects

The Interactive County-Level Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable FAIR Health Data Web Tool for Librarians & Health Professionals Initiative will consist of 4 phases to establish and sustain an interactive web tool for librarians and local health professionals to access FAIR local community health assessment data. The purpose of this web tool is to provide librarians and local health professionals with a simple to operate and easy to understand user interface that utilizes raw county-level health data we have organized in our cloud-based database Amazon Aurora.

University of Iowa 133s in the Health Sciences Colleges conduct significant research across many domains. In partnership with the Data Services Librarian, Library liaisons in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences have begun to incorporate research data management support into their service portfolios. However, the Libraries do not have a detailed picture of the data sharing practices, infrastructure needs, or data literacy of these 133s.

The Heart-Mind Connection project will be a continuation and expansion of the Brain Health Initiative, which focused on educating the public on ways to lower their risk for dementia as well as providing resources to those living with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's caregivers. The Heart-Mind Connection will emphasize the connection between good heart health and a healthy brain, as well as the benefits of lowering blood pressure for improved long-term health.

Enterprise Data Warehouses EDWs play an increasingly important role on academic medical campuses, housing clinical and other enterprise-wide data and making it available for research and strategic purposes in the learning health system.

In partnership with the Network of the National Library of Medicine NNLM 101 Coordination Center NACC and community based organization, 2 Know is 2 Live, The T.R.U.T.H. Project TTP will reach vulnerable communities of color who are at an elevated risk of contracting HIV. Additionally, TTP will provide concentrated outreach to vulnerable, affected, medically underserved communities, focused on educating and strengthening resources and knowledge to those least likely to receive it.

Project: TORDS-Technology Outreach to Reduce health Disparities and Stigma is a multi-faceted project designed in 2012. This program designed to address the health needs of 95 communities in Southern WV and Southwestern Virginia while providing HIV information during health education for health disparities and the social determinates of health that directly affect 95, poverty-stricken communities with special emphasis on Health technology and communities of color.

High-quality end of life care should be available to all individuals in a timely manner, and in alignment with their values, wishes, and goals. Unfortunately, the reality of end of life care in the United States is quite different, with the healthcare system often failing to meet the needs of certain communities. One particular community, immigrant families, encounter particular disparities in quality of, and access to, end of life care.

The Institute for Community, Youth and Family Services Inc. The Institute proposes to provide COVID-19 resources and education to Alabamas most low-income communities. By partnering with service providers, churches, local government and the public housing authority we will ensure that trainings and materials are useful to the community itself and delivered through trusted institutions who can best serve them from within the community.

Our project will provide culturally and linguistically appropriate COVID-19 outreach and education to low-income immigrants and refugees in the Chinatown and Lincoln Heights areas of Los Angeles. Low-income immigrants and refugees are among the highest at risk of contracting COVID-19 but the least likely to receive accurate public health information in a timely manner. This is due to a wide range of economic, linguistic, and technological barriers.

The Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Lurie 86s Hospital, led by Dr. Robert Garofalo MD, MPH, provides comprehensive care to promote positive health outcomes for youth in and around Chicago. Our services are structured to support all youth, specializing in reaching young people who often experience barriers to accessing services. Although the HIV epidemic has begun seeing overall decreases nationally, young men who have sex with men of color YMSMOC are still acquiring HIV at increasing rates.

The COVID-19 Health Information Access-What You Need to Know program is designed to train community members and healthcare professionals on strategies on how to manage information overload and combat misinformation. The goals of the program are to promote awareness of mis- and disinformation that lead to serious and harmful physical and mental consequences and to provide access to high quality electronic information resources to help make informed health care decisions relating to COVID-19.

Lindenwood University will bring a mental health speaker to campus to challenge the mental health stigma and supply students with information and resources that are available to them. The Project will hold a hybrid speaker event in person and/or Zoom; hold four educational objective programs to promote mental health resources and the continuing discussion of mental health; create a mental health resource center in Lindenwood University's library.

The project will provide learning opportunities for the Goddard community on the topics of gardening, the importance of mental health, healthy eating, and healthy living. The Project will schedule monthly programs for the community. Offerings will include but not be limited to blood pressure checks, yoga classes for all ages, healthy eating meal preparation for the week, massage, chiropractic information, gardening, self-care, exercise, StoryWalks on local trails and at local parks to promote movement and more.

The project will provide equipment to participate in weekly virtual lessons on nutrition and using MedlinePlus.gov as the primary resource for reputable health information. The project focuses on increasing the practical knowledge of culinary skills and nutrition needed to promote positive behavior change related to selecting foods to feed a family.