This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).
Title | Summary | Project Period |
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Technology Improvement: Virtual Reality for Health Professions Education | This project proposes to purchase 8 virtual reality VR headsets along with a portable charging dock to bring VR into classrooms where health information is being studied. Having this portable VR setup will meet a growing demand to have students use VR together to learn about issues such as bias, health information literacy, functions of the human body, and the on-demand use of counseling using VR. This VR equipment will provide more equitable access of such technologies to those in the health professions. |
January 6, 2020 - September 30, 2020 |
AoU 291 Woodi Health Hub: Building Health Information Literacy Skills for College Students in the Atlanta University Center | To improve access to authoritative health information resources via programming and engaging technology, the Atlanta University Center AUC Woodruff Library seeks funding for a one year project to increase health information literacy among students from four Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Staff and faculty from these institutions, as well as the broader Atlanta community will also benefit from information literacy training, programs and an easily accessible kiosk containing health information. |
May 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020 |
Community Engagement Award: Fit & Lit: Health Literacy for 87 and Librarians | Fit & Lit: Health Literacy for 87 and Librarians, will teach 87 living in poverty and experiencing homelessness at Dishman Hills High School healthier lifestyle choices and stronger health literacy skills. Upon completion, students will demonstrate new proficiencies to improve their personal well-being and complete high quality biomedical and healthy living related research. Newly trained library staff will increase their abilities to provide a higher-quality service to library customers in need of health-related resources. |
June 21, 2019 - September 30, 2020 |
Library 352- 2020 HSRProj Research Competition for Students | One of AcademyHealths dissemination activities is to sponsor a student competition titled the HSRProj Research Competition for Students. Now in its fourth year, the purpose of the competition is to introduce HSRProj to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in health services research, public health, library and information science, and related programs. The competition challenges students to use the HSRProj database to identify research priorities within five chosen areas of health services and systems research using HSRProj and its relevant attributes. |
January 6, 2020 - September 30, 2020 |
Community Engagement Award: Be Well Nampa | The Nampa Public Library serves as a cornerstone for our community providing diverse gathering spaces, opportunities to learn, access to vital resources and programs for the enrichment of all. The Library continually evaluates ways to accommodate emerging community needs and to engage the public outside of the library to strengthen community relationships. With funding from this grant, the Library plans to launch a eight-month Be Well Nampa project for the primary objective of improving the quality of life in our community. |
May 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020 |
Research and Data Engagement Award BioData Club: A Partnership model for Advancing Data Literacy | BioData Club is an established data science education initiative at OHSU, formed in 2016. A collaboration of the OHSU Library, the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, research staff and graduate students, BioData Club hosts monthly science skills, tools, and best practices. In 2019, there were 7 workshops covering topics such as linear regression, git and Github, data manipulation with pandas, ontologies, and ggplot, with an average of over 50 registered attendees per session. |
October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020 |
Community Engagement Award: Meridian Moves | Meridian Library District will collaborate with community partners to create a city-wide initiative called Meridian Moves which will encourage citizens to practice healthy lifestyle choices like regular exercise and quality nutrition. As part of Meridian Moves, we will create a webpage that highlights all of Meridian Library Districts existing movement-based programs, as well as the new grant-funded health and wellness programs that we plan to offer these include both weekly health and wellness classes as well as a quarterly health literacy presentation. |
June 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020 |
Health Literacy Outreach Award: Healthy Aging for a Healthy Alaska | The goals of the project are to strengthen community engagement, increase awareness of NLM services and the Research Program 71, and highlight the library as a primary source of reliable information. Programming will include the Memory Caf, a free, two-hour library program for older 88 who are experiencing early onset Alzheimer's or dementia and their care partners, family, and friends. For learning and engagement, Juneau Public Libraries JPL will design Memory Kits, in partnership with the Alzheimers Resource of Alaska. |
October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020 |
Health Literacy Outreach Award: Healthy Pathways: programs, resources, and education for Multnomah Countys Vietnamese, Cantonese, and Mandarin communities | Over twelve months, Multnomah County Library MCL will plan, pilot, and evaluate six healthy lifestyle workshop series for 110 families in Multnomah County with a specific focus on Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese speaking populations. Our project will support these communities' health literacy needs by offering health lifestyle programs on nutrition and healthy cooking, fitness, which may include tai chi, qi gong, zumba, yoga, martial arts, and meditation and culturally relevant stress relief programs like karaoke and ping pong in their own language. |
June 21, 2019 - September 30, 2020 |
AoU 353: Facilitating 95 Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries | By partnering on a Little Free Libraries LFL initiative with Floridas Okeechobee County Library OCL, this project aims to improve 95 residents health literacy and understanding of precision medicine, through facilitating awareness of and access to NLMs consumer health resources and NIHs Research Program. This project supports NNLMs mission to improve public health by empowering underserved groups to make effective use of information for health decision-making. Little Free Library is an 94 nonprofit that fosters neighborhood book exchanges through outdoor book-sharing boxes. |
January 13, 2020 - September 15, 2020 |
AoU 301 Healthy Canton 89 Project | The Healthy Canton 89 Project HCSP will strengthen the partnership between the Haywood County Public Library - Canton Branch and the Canton Senior Center. Working together, the partners will engage 89 in programming and services that assist 89 to live independent and healthy lives by focusing on three goals: increase health literacy, reduce food insecurity, and promote healthy eating. |
May 1, 2019 - September 15, 2020 |
Exhibit 3: Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA Conference | This project is an exhibit of informational resources from NLM and other authoritative resources from government, professional associations, and trusted non-profits. This exhibit will be held at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA Annual Conference, taking place from September 9-11, 2020 at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs Hotel, 700 Cool Springs Road, Franklin, TN 37067. |
September 9, 2020 - September 11, 2020 |
AoU Exhibit 354 - MemDIS 2020- Dental Informatics Symposium, University of Tennessee HSC, April 2020 | This project seeks to establish a multi-disciplinary effort dedicated to the practice of Dental Informatics through the training and development of new health delivery concepts and tools. This aligns itself with NNLMs efforts to advance the highest quality of health information to the greatest benefit of society. Dentistry is an information-intensive activity, and health informatics by its very nature supports such activities well. |
April 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020 |
Exhibit 1: 5th Annual Summer Youth Camp | The Annual Youth Summer Camp Interactive Health Information Program Presentation is designed to be an interactive and engaging presentation for youth ages 6-17 that will help them in accessing health information. Our presentation will be targeted toward minority and underserved youth that live in 95 areas in North and South Carolina. Our presentation will primarily give information both digitally and otherwise, on how to access reliable health-related information from reputable and legitimate sources on the world wide web. |
June 1, 2020 - August 31, 2020 |