Past Funded Projects

The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to support public libraries in meeting the health information needs of their patrons and engaging their communities around the Research Program. This preconference will discuss programming ideas, funding opportunities, and community engagement for public libraries around issues of health literacy, precision medicine, and . Participants will learn about the Research Program and its goal of addressing health disparities and advancing medical research.

Dahlgren Memorial Library at Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking funding for a project designed to assess the utility of iPad Mini tablet devices for use by neonatal intensive care unit and pathology residents at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Research has been conducted in the use of the iPad in several clinical point of care and training settings including with physical medicine and rehabilitation residents Niehaus, et al, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Resident Use of iPad Mini Mobile Devices. PM R. 2015 May;75:512-8.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine have partnered to support public libraries in meeting the health information needs of their patrons and engaging their communities around the Research Program. This preconference will discuss programming ideas, funding opportunities, and community engagement for public libraries around issues of health literacy, precision medicine, and . Participants will learn about the Research Program and its goal of addressing health disparities and advancing medical research.

Exhibit at the North Carolina Veterinary Conference

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will provide training to five addiction treatment centers in eastern Pennsylvania on addiction-related care for the LGBT community, as well as connect the treatments to resources available through MedlinePlus.

Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. Built on a tradition of more than 90 years of excellence, Allen currently serves 625 students in seven health programsnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, and occupational therapyranging from associates to doctorates.

This session, sponsored by the African American Medical Librarians Alliance AAMLA of the Medical Library Association, will provide attendees with an overview of implicit bias, the impact it has in libraries and in health care, and more importantly how it stands in the way of diversity and inclusion initiatives on our campuses. An implicit bias occurs when we have attitudes towards people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.

The Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center PRC staff propose to promote awareness and improved health literacy among its public populations by developing an interactive and traveling exhibit devoted to health literacy and consumer health with online video tutorial components of MedlinePlus and other NLM resources made available on the PRC YouTube Channel. They plan to debut the Interactive Health Literacy and Consumer Health Exhibit Exhibit and promote the video tutorials at the annual 3rd Avenue Street Fair in Manhattan.

Our team at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Public Health Initiatives CPHI has a longstanding commitment to expanding evidence-based health-related programming in public libraries. Opioid-related mortality in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade, especially in Philadelphia, which has the highest overdose mortality rate among major U.S. cities.

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

Stated in the mission and goals of the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine ARCOM is the desire to recruit and train medical students who are focused on service to the underserved. This aim is important because Arkansas is one of the lowest ranking states in physician-to-population ratio.

The exhibit will have trifolds on NLM mobile, Pubmed Health, Pubmed, Medline Plus, Toxtown, and other pertinent materials. A portion of the handouts will focus on the NLM materials that support education of youth and 87.

Continuing on PATHS Leading to Excellent Patient Care will allow patients and families of the University of South Alabama USA Medical Center and the High Risk OB/GYN and Well Baby units of the USA 86s & 92s Hospital to access quality health information through the use of Android tablets. Nurse 12s and other health care professionals at both facilities will have a means to enhance the current individual educational needs of the patients, parents and family members by accessing the free electronic resources from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

The purpose of this project is to begin developing the health literacy skills necessary for incorporating guidelines into existing or newly developed materials,including by not limited to written publications. Through self-selection, health care professionals, community health 12s, and others who work directly with informational delivery to diverse audiences will be afforded the opportunity to participate in an introductory workshop on health literacy and developing easy-to-read text-based health information.