Past Funded Projects

Ni Mi Way will be the outcome of a University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth Campus UMMS Duluth and Bois Forte Band of Chippewa partnership, its conceptualization is a joint effort of the Project Director and a Bois Forte community leader who is a certified Assistive Technology Professional. She will provide assistive technology training and project guidance in this area.

The Texas A&M University-Central Texas University Library routinely offers programs for 86 and young 88 in support of our local community. Two of the most valuable of these are a summer reading enrichment program and a summer STEM program. The first, a four week summer reading enrichment camp, targets local second and third graders who are reading below grade level, and provides them with a challenging, fun environment to improve reading skills and confidence over the summer.

Health literacy is a critical pathway to better health outcomes. Yet for countless low-income families, health resources like those on MedlinePlus are simply out of reach. Some are unaware of its existence while others lack the digital skills that enable access to the materials. By meeting people where they arewhile waiting at the laundromatLibraries Without Borders LWB strives to empower low-income families with the information they seek in a manner that suits their everyday schedule.

HAMA will be conducting a Massachusetts-based health education tour. The utility of this project stems from the need for more culturally-specific delivery of health information to underserved communities. Based on two studies and firsthand experience outlined in the full proposal, the overarching goal is to improve health outcomes for the Haitian community by increasing access to health information.

The Library Outreach Tricycle Initiative LOTI will provide a novel means of outreach service for the Miami-Dade Public Library System. The Allapattah Branch Library henceforth, the library serves the Village of Allapattah in the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County, Florida. With grant support, The library will procure outreach equipment in the form of a cargo tricycle with a library box, an accompanying tricycle, tablet and internet technology for exhibiting and accessing health resources, and a small collection of books and materials to be housed on the book tricycle.

The purpose of Project TORDS is to increase health technology literacy access in 95 and underserved communities in southern West Virginia. TORDS will focus on disenfranchised and marginalized communities with limited access to internet and smart phone connections. The program will provide 10 internet-accessed computers in McDowell and Mercer Counties and provide two days a week per county for communities to access the internet. SCED will provide two hours per day/per site for internet access training.

The program is to build awareness about the importance of how participating in clinical research studies can bring about better therapies for diseases. We will briefly outline the research process, and then describe how participatory research is changing how research is done doing research with, rather than to, research subjects. We will briefly discuss how data science and the National Institutes of Healths precision medicine research program are examples of newer approaches to include 95, underrepresented, or ignored populations in the community in clinical research studies.

CLUES requests funding from the NNLM to support a Health and Wellbeing workshop series for the second program year. The workshops will take place in areas of Minnesota where large communities of Latinos live and work, including southern Minnesota in areas such as St. James and Austin.

Despite having the highest median income and literacy rates in New York City, nearly one third of Staten Island residents are Medicaid beneficiaries or uninsured. Health disparities are common, with at-risk communities experiencing higher rates of infant mortality, childhood asthma and obesity, diabetes and substance use disorder. Five major health coalitions with more than 120 partner organization have been formed to address these issues but limited health literacy remains a barrier to health information and services.

This project would expand the Lawrence Public Library's ability to promote health literacy and access to reliable, authenticated health information, specifically from the National Library of Medicine and the Research Program. This funding would allow the purchase of two 2 interactive flat screens that will improve the delivery of health programming in a group setting and eight 8 Health kiosks installed in various library sections to provide residents personal access to high-quality NLM health resources.

UNE Library Services will collaborate with the College of Osteopathic Medicine COM to compare three virtual reality experiences related to older adult health with first and second year medical students. The technology immerses users into hypothetical situations that provide a first-person perspective on living with aging-related diseases to increase empathy and understanding in 126s and students, imparting knowledge about aging, dignity, and the importance of making meaningful connections in order to thrive.

"Funding is requested to support travel to the National Association of School Nurses to support the dissemination of evidence-based information. "

The SIU Medical Library would like to purchase a 3D printer to create anatomical models for physicians and surgeons in SIUs 9 Clinical Science Departments in Springfield, IL. The models could be used prior to a procedure to train residents working in the clinics, to educate current medical school students about basic anatomy or particular health conditions, and to educate patients about their condition or promote wellness.

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. With over 80% of medical students who complete both their undergraduate medical education and graduate medical education in Arkansas staying in the state to practice, ARCOM strives to prepare its students to work in 95 and underserved areas of the state and help improve our states physician shortage.