Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gathering Welcome: Creating a Curriculum to Teach Health Literacy to Immigrant and Refugee Women | Margaret Zimmerman, an Assistant Professor with the University of Iowa’s (UI) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) requests a grant for a second iteration of her pilot program to develop a |
Funding Amount: $9828 |
2019 to 2020 |
| Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust – Phase II | “Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust” will continue to help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify, and use reliable health information on the internet. |
Funding Amount: $49986 |
2019 to 2021 |
| Mino Izhiwebzi | Mino Izhiwebzi (“Good Health”) serves Native Americans (Ojibwe) Elders of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. |
Funding Amount: $49993 |
2019 to 2021 |
| Health Literacy of Refugee Populations | Margaret S. |
Funding Amount: $10343 |
2018 to 2019 |
| County-Level Health Data Fair | The Making County-Level Health Data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Initiative will consist of three phases in order to establish and sustain an online interface for local hea |
Funding Amount: $19900 |
2018 to 2019 |
| University of Cincinnati Data Day 2019 | Researchers producing data face unique challenges in data management, data sharing, reproducible research and preservation. |
Funding Amount: $11824 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation Program for Graduate Students in STEM and Health Sciences | The Research Data Management Best Practice Implementation project supports the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) goal of building “capacity in data management practices, services and to |
Funding Amount: $17846 |
2018 to 2020 |
| Teaching Health Literacy to Underserved Youth | Background: Low health literacy has been associated with poor health outcomes and socioeconomic factors. |
Funding Amount: $9511 |
2018 to 2019 |
| 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 |