Recent Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| AoU Community Engagement 258 - Breaking the Barriers with Healthier Lifestyles: Advocate and Communicate with Low-Income Minority Students and Community Learners | Restored Generation is an outreach organization focused on enriching and educating the underserved population. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 259 - Empower Parents -Equipping Parent Caregivers With Health Literacy Skills | Empower Parents will equip parent caregivers with much needed health literacy tools and skills. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 260 - Promoting Healthly Previentive Care for Senior Adults and First-year Students at Alabama A & M University | Drake LRC wants older African Americans and students to make healthy choices and avoid risky healthcare behaviors. However, the potential pitfalls for senior adults and students are great. |
Funding Amount: $6068 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 261 - Project HEAL (Health Empowerment and Literacy) | Project HEAL will combine health literacy with English language instruction at the Trident Literacy Association (TLA) in Charleston, SC. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 263 - Health Science Library Information Outreach: Supporting Public Libraries Supporting All of Us | Public libraries are known for being community centered institutions providing equitable access to information and resources. |
Funding Amount: $9842 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 267 - Improving Health Information Literacy with the EVMS Library: A Hampton Roads Community Initiative | As one of the only medical schools in the nation founded by a grassroots effort from the local community, Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) is committed to addressing our community’s most pressin |
Funding Amount: $7116 |
2018 to 2019 |
| AoU Community Engagement 268 - Library Outreach Tricycle Initiative | The Library Outreach Tricycle Initiative (LOTI) will provide a novel means of outreach service for the Miami-Dade Public Library System. |
Funding Amount: $10000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Express Technology 272 - Rebuilding the Medical Library After the Hurricane Florence | Our medical library was destroyed in Hurricane Florence in Sept. 2018. We are in the process of planning for the recreation of the library. |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Outreach 144 - Internet/Computer Training Pairing Teenagers with Senior Citizens | Our plans are to educate and train as many Senior Citizens by pairing them with Teenagers to teach them on how use the Internet/Computer to find online reliable health information using MedlinePlus.go |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Outreach 153 - Project TORDS-Technology Outreach to Reduce heath Disparities and Stigma | The purpose of Project “TORDS” is to increase health technology literacy access in rural and underserved communities in southern West Virginia. |
Funding Amount: $15000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Outreach 157 - Development and Dissemination of a Health Information Literacy Training for Rural Youth | Residents of rural communities face increasing challenges to optimizing health and well-being. |
Funding Amount: $14839 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Outreach 160 - Collaborative for Health Literacy: East End Consumer Health Outreach and Computer Access | At 12% proficiency, U.S. health literacy sets the population at disadvantage for consumer health outcomes and overall healthcare costs (NCES, 2006; DHHS, 2017). |
Funding Amount: $14918 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Outreach 167 - Augusta-Richmond Community Health Outreach Project | The Augusta-Richmond Community Health Outreach Project will provide reliable and free access health information to residents within the Richmond County. |
Funding Amount: $1638 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Outreach 172 - For the Public Good: Connecting Research and Community | The program is to build awareness about the importance of how participating in clinical research studies can bring about better therapies for diseases. |
Funding Amount: $10382 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Outreach 194 - The Wash & Learn Initiative for Health Literacy in Greater Washington, D.C. | 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. |
Funding Amount: $5350 |
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 |
| Outreach 195 - Speaker Series: Genetics, Lifestyle Choices and the Environment Can Impact a Personal Health | Oftentimes academic universities, public libraries, and churches serve as cultural centers to communities that offer a variety of workshops to promote wellness and health awareness. |
Funding Amount: $5000 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Library Project 139 - MLA Special Content Session: Transforming Libraries Using Implicit Bias Training | 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 l |
Funding Amount: $5360 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Library Project 151 - Collaborating to Host a Research Data Management Symposium | Data discovery is becoming an increasing trend with the availability of public data sets as a part of the open access movement. |
Funding Amount: $14817 |
2018 to 2019 |
| Library Project 156 - Supporting Student and Faculty Exploration of Bioprinting in UAB Libraries | The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences has long been recognized as a leading health sciences library in the state of Alabama. |
Funding Amount: $13833 |
2018 to 2019 |