Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
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| Women's Health Wednesdays | We will focus on several different topics of women’s health, including heart disease, reproductive safety and health, depression and mental health, eating healthy, working out, cancer, yearly screenin |
Funding Amount: $1962 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Wash & Learn: Health Libraries in Laundromats - Minnesota | Libraries Without Borders (LWB) will facilitate health literacy programs inside laundromats in 3 new counties in Minnesota as part of LWB’s Wash & Learn Initiative (WALI). |
Funding Amount: $19874 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Interactive Health Information Kiosks in Richland County Libraries | The Interactive Health Information Kiosks in Richland County Libraries project will consist of four phases in order to establish and sustain the installment of interactive health information kiosks at |
Funding Amount: $19060 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Improving Health Awareness Through Access to Quality Health Information | This request seeks to fund the purchase and support of 20 iPads loaded with NLM consumer health information for adults and children. |
Funding Amount: $12358 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Ixodes Outreach Project: A Northern MN Community Education and Research Program | Lyme Disease (LD) is an emerging epidemic in the Upper Midwest. |
Funding Amount: $49883 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Ni Mi Way | 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 Projec |
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2018 to 2019 |
| Expanding Research Data Management Education for Health Science Librarians across the GMR, and for Graduate Students and Faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth | The Expanding Research Data Management Proposal seeks to offer training on the research data management lifecycle to librarians and researchers. |
Funding Amount: $18869 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Information Needs Assessment of Unaffiliated North Dakota Rural Health Professionals & Biomedical Researchers, Phase III | This project will support the mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), specifically “to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by providing all U.S. |
Funding Amount: $18587 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Iowa Public Health Research Center (IPHRC) at Allen College | Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. |
Funding Amount: $9321 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Narrowing the Health Gap in Cincinnati | Despite improvements in medical care and efforts to make healthcare more affordable for all Americans, many still experience significant heath disparities that result in poor health outcomes. |
Funding Amount: $19727 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Mobility for All: Effingham Public Library | Effingham Public Library proposes to partner with the National Library of Medicine to provide “Mobility for All” a monthly chair yoga training that will provide strengthening exercises that anyone can |
Funding Amount: $1200 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Health Information Hub at the Chicago Public Library | 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 co |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| How to Maximize Your Health Insurance Benefits | Lack of access to treatment for youth living in medically underserved areas with a mental health condition can lead to poor academic performance, substance use, hospitalization, and attempted or compl |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Partner Outreach 2018-2019: University of Illinois at Chicago Library for the Health Sciences - Peoria | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
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2018 to 2019 |
| CLUES Health and Well-being Workshops | CLUES requests funding from the NNLM to support a Health and Wellbeing workshop series for the second program year. |
Funding Amount: $20000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Food Wisdom Repository: Information Resources for Native Nutritional Health | This project undertakes outreach activities to further development of, and facilitate access to, a public knowledge repository of information on Indigenous nutritional health. |
Funding Amount: $49835 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust | “Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust” will help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify and use reliable health information on the internet. |
Funding Amount: $49510 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Community Health in the Library (CHIL) | The Community Health in the Library (CHIL): Reinvigorating Outreach at the UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences project will improve access to high quality, reliable health information for the |
Funding Amount: $18279 |
2018 to 2019 |
| SIU Medical Library’s 3D Printing Program | The SIU Medical Library would like to purchase a 3D printer to create anatomical models for physicians and surgeons in SIU’s 9 Clinical Science Departments in Springfield, IL. |
Funding Amount: $17293 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Partner Outreach 2018-2021: Wayne State University, Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library 2019-2020 | Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR. |
Funding Amount: $2800 |
2018 to 2019 |