Class Recordings

The Poetry of Pediatrics: Health Humanities in Practice

What are the health humanities? How can the practice of narrative medicine inform the practice of pediatrics? In this webinar, Dr. Irène Mathieu, a poet, physician scientist, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics will discuss how these threads of her career inform and complement one another.

Join NNLM Region 1 and their guest Irène Mathieu, MD pediatrician at University of Virginia

Irène Mathieu, MD is a poet, novelist and pediatrician at University of Virginia…
Date: February 15, 2023

R4 Connections. January 2023.

Join NNLM's Region 4 along with two guest speakers to discuss the role health information access has on Diabetes Education for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Michelle Litchman, PhD, FNP-BC, FAANP, FADCES, FAAN is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah College of Nursing, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, and Nurse Practitioner at the Utah Diabetes and Endocrinology Center. She serves as the Medical Director of the Intensive Diabetes Education and Support Program at the…
Date: January 12, 2023

Libraries as Hubs for Citizen Science: Partnering with Academia to Improve the Health of Communities

Radon is a leading cause of lung cancer. Many living in rural communities lack access to home radon testing and adequate and affordable mitigation. Community-academic partnerships provide opportunities to achieve health equity by drawing upon respective strengths, expertise, and local knowledge.

Please join NNLM and guest speakers King Simpson and Stacy Stanifer while they discuss their unique partnership.

Logan County (Kentucky) Public Library will discuss its innovative partnership with the…
Date: November 16, 2022

Farming for Public Health: Thinking Upstream

Approximately 50 million pounds of pesticides are applied to corn and beans in Iowa annually.  As troubles of escalating pesticide use in Iowa and the Midwest are becoming more visible (weed resistance, pesticide drift, crop damage, etc.), there is a paucity of easily accessible informational resources for Iowans about the environmental and public health impacts of pesticides in our state. Furthermore, the system of agriculture that relies so heavily on synthetic chemical inputs has many other implications on ecological sustainability that ultimately impact human…
Date: October 12, 2022

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Navajo Nation and a story of Diné resilience

Abstract

The Navajo Nation is fraught with infrastructural inadequacies and health disparities that were a set-up for such spread and devastation at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The health inequities that exist on the Navajo Nation are plenty and posed many barriers to quick, safe and effective quarantining, isolation and recovery. However, throughout the pandemic, the Navajo Nation has kept its spirits up and worked together to overcome and move forward. Dr.…
Date: May 11, 2022

NExT Steps: A Unique Nurse Librarian EBP Collaboration

NExT Steps: A Unique Nurse Librarian EBP Collaboration is a 1 hour live webinar presented Wednesday, April 6 at 3pm ET/2pm CT/1pm MT/12pm PT.

Nurses need to document and demonstrate that they engage in research and implement evidence based practice (EBP) to enhance healthcare quality, improve patient outcomes, and reduce costs. However, despite the explosion of scientific evidence, evidence-based care is not standard of care.

The University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) Library of the Health Sciences and the College of Nursing have been…
Date: April 6, 2022

R4 Connections. Implementation of Telemedicine in Rural Public Libraries

Part of the R4 Connections Webinar Series. This session will feature guest speaker Dr. Pamela DeGuzman who will focus on telemedicine in rural public libraries and her research in this area.

Youth perceptions of online harassment (July 14, 2021)

Presenter Description: Abigail L. Phillips, PhD is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her general research interests include youth, social media, cyberbullying, empathy, librarianship, libraries, maker edu, neurodiversity, advocacy, and mental health. Abigail received her PhD in Information Science from the School of Information at Florida State University in the Spring of 2016. Before beginning the PhD program, she worked as public librarian at a rural library system in Southwest…
Date: July 14, 2021