Past Funded Projects
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Implementing a Digital Experience for the Exhibit Dental Instruments: Past and Present |
The creation of an online exhibit based on Stony Brook University Libraries' Dental Instruments: Past and Present will make important resources for research and teaching in the fields of denta |
$14,924 |
| Improving Health & Mental Health Literacy in Diverse Communities: Why Partnerships Matter |
The main focus of this program, to be held on December 5, 2017, is health and mental health literacy in diverse communities. |
$12,000 |
| Including Health Literacy in the Skills Curriculum and Assessment for Third Year Osteopathic Medicine Students |
This grant application is for funding to hire a clinical skills expert to develop a health literacy/patient communication module to be incorporated into a mandatory clinical skills review course fo |
$14,987 |
| Leveraging the Librarian in a Nurse Residency Program |
This project is part of the Nurse Residency Program being implemented at UPMC Mercy through the Department of Nursing. |
$10,000 |
| Medical Library Association Annual Conference |
Funding is being requested to support travel costs to serve as a co-presenter with Lydia Collins, Consumer Health Coordinator at NNLM MAR, at the Medical Library Association Annual 2017 conference |
$1,500 |
| Nutritious, Quick, and FlavorFULL Cooking |
This interactive program will introduce adults to healthy cooking techniques and free online health information resources. |
$1,400 |
| Patient Empowerment: Using Information Resources to Improve Health Communication |
Building on the success of our 2016-17 funded project, ?Outreach to Consumers to Improve Health Literacy,? |
$14,699 |
| The Family Table |
The Family Table is a free health and nutrition program that teaches 2-3 families a week how to shop for, prepare and enjoy healthy meals together. |
$5,000 |
| University of Pittsburgh Data Catalog |
Major funding agencies have stipulated that data from funded research should be made available for retrieval and secondary analysis. |
$14,872 |
| Using Data to Support Clinical Outcomes (Keynote) |
The speaker is presenting on electronic health record implementation and the power of well-organized data to improve individual patient level outcomes. |
$1,500 |
| Utilization of a Low Literacy Book to Manage Childhood Illness in a Community Home Visiting Program |
This project would be an intervention both to improve children's health and reduce inappropriate emergency room visits by providing parents or caregivers with a reference resource for understa |
$4,500 |
| What the Health: Free Consumer Health Resources |
Stony Brook University health sciences librarians will train area public librarians in free consumer health resources using a combination of NNLM courses and Stony Brook tutorials. |
$4,722 |
| Title | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 18th International Conference on Grey Literature ? Leveraging Diversity in Grey Literature, November 28-29, 2016 |
Scientific information, much of which is published as grey literature, can play a pivotal role in the search for solutions to global problems. |
$1,445 |
| Basics of Health Literacy: A K-12 Community Partnership |
Developing a Replicable Model for Health Literacy to Promote Positive Youth Development is a year-long, school-based, in-class, student-centered, experiential, and technology-driven health promotio |
$15,000 |
| Bringing Rigor and Reproducibility to Research |
Reproducibility is one of the main principles of research. Rigor in the design of the research is another. |
$4,999 |
| Data Visualization for Librarians |
The Data and Visualization Institute for Librarians is a week-long course providing the opportunity for librarians passionate about research and scholarship to immerse themselves in learning about |
$1,500 |
| Developing a Health Literacy Curriculum for Osteopathic Medicine Students (DO/HL) |
The need for healthcare professionals to recognize low health literacy patients and to communicate with them effectively has been well recognized and widely reported. |
$15,000 |
| Harnessing the Power of Public Library and Other Staff to Improve Population Health |
This four-module pilot curriculum provides the necessary tools for library staff to recognize the health and social challenges facing their most vulnerable patrons, engage with those patrons, and s |
$14,995 |
| Health Information on the Go: Reaching Rural Populations by Bookmobile |
The Columbia County Traveling Library is working toward doing more community outreach in partnership with area agencies. |
$15,000 |
| Igniting the Spirit of Inquiry - Innovations in Nursing, sponsored by Holy Spirit - A Geisinger Affiliate and Messiah College |
This nursing education conference is an ideal time to promote the awareness of the Medline Plus, Medline, and NIH resources to these nursing students. |
$1,040 |