Past Funded Projects

As the National Public Health Coordination Office, project staff manage access working with vendors to make information available to public health offices. The Coordination Office establishes a fee structure, supports continuous access, and provides distance-based training and education to users. Office staff works with public health departments to establish electronic access and extend information resources with partnering health sciences libraries in proximity to the public health department.

This project will provide quality virtual information related to health and wellness privacy and literacy that librarians can use to better serve their communities. We will present this information as a series of four webinars for public library workers. We will also create high-quality informational resources which will form part of the webinar content but will also be designed to be shared on library social media at other times. Authoritative information about health and wellness privacy is both timely and in-demand.

According to Nietzsche, Without music, life would be a mistake. While music is a treasured experience in the education of our youth, learning and performing music presents potential health risks. For example, the World Health Organization currently estimates that 1.1 billion young people are at risk for hearing loss due to unsafe music listening practices. In response, the Texas Education Agency recently updated requirements for public school music education.

The Wayne State University, Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library Shiffman recognizes a significant opportunity in partnering with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM and the NIH Research Program to provide increased and improved access to health-related information and services to residents of the Detroit Metro area primarily engaging communities identified as Underrepresented in Biomedical Research UBR by NIH. In order to maximize that opportunity, Shiffman will use grant funding to 1 utilize a 50% FTE library assistant, a.k.a.

The Health Sciences and Human Services Library HS/HSL at the University of Maryland, Baltimore UMB proposes a course to build skills in people to become effective citizen scientists. A team at the HS/HSL will develop an online course, breaking down citizen science and research methods into understandable components. Citizen Science, also known as Community Science, will be explored through the lens of public health, environmental health, and personal health. The course will be asynchronous and self-paced, with approximately 30-40 hours of content. It will be offered free of charge.

Minwanjige, Mino Bimaadizi Eat Well, Live Well, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus, has the goals of 1 introducing 86 to the impact of food on physical, emotional and social wellbeing, 2 improving nutrition literacy, and 3 acting as a friendly format to share information with caregivers in the lives of 86. This is accomplished through creation of two culturally-responsive, age-appropriate activity books, one for the developmental range of 3rd-4th grade, the other for 5th-6th grade; similar books for Kindergarten and 1st-2nd grades will be available in April 2020.

The COVID-19 NAVIGATOR Youth Empowerment Pilot Program EPIGRAM will enable schoolage students to access health information and resources to learn about the COVID-19 pandemic and how to engage with others during challenging times. Resources will be collected into a resource portal, with an underlying database structure using a detailed metadata schema where visitors can filter and query for videos based on audience, age-level, and topic.

The Community Engagement Network Ambassador Program in Chicago, IL will connect the Chicago Public Library CPL with expert consumer health librarians from the University of Chicago and quality National Library of Medicine NLM health resources to more effectively engage with the community and address their health information needs. The project will target CPL branch libraries located in areas with a large population that meets the NIH underrepresented in biomedical research UBR criteria in order to provide training for CPL librarians on using and promoting quality health resources.

The mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. The Program is coordinated by the National Library of Medicine and carried out through a nationwide network of health science libraries and information centers.

Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust will continue to help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify, and use reliable health information on the internet. With todays focus on obtaining information online or going mobile, there is a digital divide for many individuals with low health literacy and represented among vulnerable populations, using online and other digital tools for health Pew, 2015.

To perform outreach on behalf of NNLM GMR

To perform outreach on behalf of NNLM GMR

To perform outreach on behalf of NNLM GMR

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM/NNLM resources and services on behalf of the GMR.