Past Funded Projects

The Martin & Gail Press Health Professions Division Library at Nova Southeastern University NSU in collaboration with The Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine NSUMD will host a healthcare hackathon, a multi-day event, in which a large number of students will meet to engage in a collaborative environment to address community health issues, stimulate university-wide inter-professional partnership and promote a culture of exploration and innovation.

The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell library, in collaboration with the medical school and Northwell Health research branch, the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, will implement a local instance of the open source data catalog created by the NYU Health Sciences Library. The pilot project will meet the immediate need for the research enterprise of a frontend interface for discoverability of the data located in the Feinstein Institute public data repository.

Funding is requested for Jovy-Anne O'Grady to attend Digital Commons + Great Lakes User Group DC+GLUG 2018 Meeting. The conference will improve her ability to convince 1100 faculty members to deposit their author manuscripts into Touro Scholar; thereby, facilitating public access to health and medical research especially to those who cannot afford journal subscriptions.

The goal of this project is to develop accurate health information concerning the effects of systemic diseases on the oral health of 86 and/or how the oral health of a child can affect the prognosis of a systemic disease, and to make this information available to families in a user-friendly format. Having this information will encourage parents to seek dental care for their 86 with systemic diseases. Dental health professionals will create this information, written at an appropriate level for a consumer, and build a dynamic website devoted to providing such information.

The Tennessee Public Health Association 2018 Annual Conference - September 12-14, 2018, Franklin, Tennessee Opioid Misuse and Addiction Resources .In response to the current opioid crisis, the National Library of Medicine partnered with Healthy Roads Media has produced a collection of materials that teach people about 103 and opioid misuse. The collection has 22 easy-to-read handouts, videos, and audio recordings in English and Spanish. Also resources from American Health Informatics Association on training in resources in Health informatics will be exhibited.

133s producing data face unique challenges in data management, data sharing, reproducible research and preservation. The University of Cincinnati's annual Data Day event began in 2015 to highlight these challenges and to provide opportunities for 133s to engage with those who can offer credible information on data related services. Data Day presenters have included 133s, scholars, scientists, GIS experts, faculty and students who come together to speak about the work that they do as it relates to data.

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Participate and attend ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity

Attend and participate in ALA Midwinter session Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity