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Scheduled Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Making Sense of Numbers (April 2, 2025) | April 2, 2025 | This 1.5 hour webinar explains how to interpret statistics and numbers.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Advancing Evidence-Based Interventions in Rural Communities (Rescheduled) | April 7, 2025 | The Putting Public Health Evidence in Action training, originally created by the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network, helps health practitioners and program planners apply evidence-based approaches. Learn about an adaptation for rural and micrometropolitan communities created by University of Iowa Prevention Research Center for Rural Health. This webinar will summarize key points from the six training modules, highlight rural examples of the principles in action, and introduce the accompanying activities and resources.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy: Understanding the Connection - April 10, 2025 | April 10, 2025 | This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication. This presentation addresses improving health literacy, by including information about the NLM/NIH resource MedlinePlus.gov.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Reimagining Reproduction: An Art-Based Study of Reproductive Health Care | April 16, 2025 | Drawing from a more extensive health study that centers on people's lived experiences with accessing reproductive health care, previous health research, and poetics, this study uses an art-based research approach to create erasure poems that detail how people deal with challenges in accessing reproductive health care.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
| Discovering Library Science & Health Literacy: A High School Push-in Program | June 18, 2025 | This webinar will present a curriculum designed for high school students aimed at educating them about the library science profession while also equipping them with foundational skills in health literacy.
Platform/Location: Zoom |
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On-Demand Classes
| Event Title | Date(s) | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| AHEM: clearing the way to easy-to-read health materials | On-demand through April 25, 2025 | Get an overview on assessing health education materials, and learn how the National Library of Medicine uses a health education materials assessment tool to figure out if health education materials are easy-to-read in this 2 hour on-demand, online class.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| An Introduction to ClinicalTrials.gov On Demand | On-demand through November 1, 2025 | This online, self-paced course introduces and demonstrates searching and understanding search results in ClinicalTrials.gov.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Finding and Using Health Statistics | On-demand through March 31, 2026 | This online, self-paced course for librarians and students in health sciences describes different types of health statistics, how they are collected, and where they can be found.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Health Literacy On Demand | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | Learn about health literacy definitions, best practices, tools for communicating health information clearly, and resources for improving health literacy. This on-demand narrated tutorial takes about an hour to complete. It offers CHES, CNE, and MLA credit.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| MedlinePlus Tutorial for Librarians and Health Educators | On-demand through November 1, 2025 | An interactive guided tour of the MedlinePlus website that takes about 1 hour to complete.
Platform/Location: Moodle |
| Prescription and Over the Counter Drugs: Supporting Patients with Evidence-Based Information | On-demand through April 30, 2026 | This 1 credit hour on-demand course provides an introduction to three free resources from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health: the NIDA website, DailyMed and LactMed.
Platform/Location: Moodle |