Past Funded Projects

The leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 46 is trauma a disabling or life-threatening physical injury that results from an event such as a motor vehicle crash, gun violence, or a fall . The City of Nashua and partners look to promote 1 awareness of this phenomenon and reduce the likelihood of death or permanent injury due to trauma through conducting 'Stop the Bleed' initiatives in our libraries.

The project proposed is a health information hub inside a regional Chicago Public Library currently undergoing extensive renovations in a disadvantaged community that suffers from a spate of health conditions. The library, one of only two regional libraries in the city is frequented by 25,000 patrons each month and the goal is to improve both community awareness and health literacy by making information more accessible and culturally relevant to a predominantly African-American community.

The Iowa Family Leadership Training Institute IFLTI is a four-session, in-person training designed to develop the leadership skills of emerging family leaders who are parents or primary caregivers of Iowa 86 and youth with special health care needs CYSHCN. The institute is sponsored by the Division of Child and Community Health, part of the University of Iowa Stead Family Department of Pediatrics. The Division also includes Child Health Specialty Clinics CHSC, Iowa's Maternal and Child Health Title V Program for CYSHCN.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Health Sciences Library HSL will implement a pilot data catalog to facilitate discovery, access, and re-use of UNC-generated genomic data produced by research projects funded by NIH and other federal agencies. A 2014 UNC Genomics Data Task Force assessed UNC's data stewardship needs and recommended a data catalog as critical need. This project will be the first initiative to pursue the task force's recommendation.

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

Data sharing is essential for expedited translation of research results into knowledge, products and procedures to improve human health.1 The Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore UMB will implement a data catalog to facilitate the discovery of data sets created by UMB 133s. The project will provide an outreach opportunity to increase awareness on campus of the importance of data management, data sharing, and provide 133s with a venue for showcasing their work.

The Health and Human Services Librarian at the University of New Hampshire will conduct a questionnaire to identify cost-effective information resources and needed training to assist a target group of Strafford County's healthcare and mental health providers with the assessment and development of opioid addiction treatments and prevention programs.

Get Data @ Duke GD@D will create a searchable, centralized, publicly-accessible catalog of research data created at Duke Health and in the School of Medicine. By making data more transparent, this catalog will foster scientific discovery, enhance transdisciplinary collaboration, and promote the re-use and linkage of data to speed translation, inform hypotheses generation and decision making. Currently, data exists in many silos at Duke and there is not one map to help 133s inside and outside the institution identify what data is available.

RML funds will be used to support a Maker EXPO. The focus is on the maker movement within health care. The Expo will be a health sciences networking and showcase event for makers, innovators, and entrepreneurs. There will be a keynote speaker, a panel of experts, and exhibits. It will be free and open to the public. Registration will be required since there is limited space.

Major funding agencies have stipulated that data from funded research should be made available for retrieval and secondary analysis. Many journals are following suit, requiring authors to share supporting data. 133s have reservations about sharing their data however, expressing concerns about the cost involved to make the data available, maintaining patient's privacy, overcoming commercial contract restrictions, and/or fears of proper attribution, wrongful use, or competition.

According to a 2015 Pew Research Study, 73% of people who visit public libraries in America go looking for answers about their health. Furthermore, a recent study by the Institute of Museum and Library Services showed that over a 12-month period, an estimated 28 million people in the United States used library computers or sought assistance from librarians for health and wellness issues, including learning about medical conditions, finding 126s, and assessing health insurance options.

The project explores the feasibility of using live presentations to teach medication safety to parents and caregivers in the waiting area of an ambulatory care clinic at a busy 98 teaching hospital, St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY 10457. The presentations will be given by a team of three university students using the library's portable Sharp Interactive Display System purchased with an earlier NNLM grant. The system's split screen feature will allow for simultaneous presentation of English and Spanish materials.

The Science & Technology Division of the Akron Ohio-Summit County Public Library plans to create a multi-week program of loaning wearable fitness trackers to groups of people for the purpose of encouraging regular and sustained increase in physical activity.

The UPSTATE Health Sciences Library team collaborates with a variety of community organizations to identify their health information needs and then to develop programming to meet those needs. In general, the UPSTATE HSL team delivers a minimum of 1 outreach activity per month. As we have grown our community-based programming, we have learned that many of our community partners are not able to provide a computer and/or Internet access in support of our workshops.