Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
Diabetes 2020 A Brief Medication Review Booklet/88u for Providers and Patients

This project will expand on work currently underway to create a Diabetes 2020 Useful Information booklet that is currently being piloted in the primary care setting to update clinicians. The booklet is intended to facilitate more current prescriptive practices surrounding the treatment of diabetes. The booklet was borne from a project to provide a shared decision-making menu to assist patients understand treatment of their diabetes.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Multi-year Consortial Award: Knowledge is Health: Interprofessional Partnerships to Promote Health Literacy

The central objective of this project is the improvement of health literacy in underserved patient populations in Oregon through a the education of health professions students, providers, and interprofessional faculty and b the integration of appropriate information resources and communication practices into patient care. The underlying assumptions of this objective are that positive patient health outcomes will result from improved health literacywhich will result from improved provider competencies.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2021
Lyme Disease: A Community-Based Citizen Education Project

Lyme Disease LD is an emerging epidemic in the Upper Midwest. Early identification of LD symptoms is paramount to effective medical treatment; knowledge of symptoms, how LD spreads, and receiving immediate medical treatment if you have a bite or suspect you may have a bite. This NLM proposal enhances the previous Ixodes Outreach Project IOP at the University of Minnesota Medical School UMMS Duluth and was funded from 2017 - 2018 to develop a community-outreach program.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices

This is a train-the-trainer project on FAIR Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable data basics for data novices. The overall concept is to meet data novices at their comfort levels, in order to increase workforce awareness of open science and FAIR data. We propose to hold a workshop on FAIR data habits for librarians new to thinking about data. Librarians will then pilot small conversation starters with patrons new to FAIR data, and share back insights on whether that appears to have benefitted their patrons.

June 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices

This is a train-the-trainer project on FAIR Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable data basics for data novices. The overall concept is to meet data novices at their comfort levels, in order to increase workforce awareness of open science and FAIR data. We propose to hold a workshop on FAIR data habits for librarians new to thinking about data. Librarians will then pilot small conversation starters with patrons new to FAIR data, and share back insights on whether that appears to have benefitted their patrons.

June 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
RDM 14: Teaching Data Literacy through an Escape Room

This data literacy escape room will teach graduate students in disciplines of the health sciences how to manage data ethically. The game will serve as one component in a series of data literacy modules, which will fill a gap in the current graduate school curriculum by addressing data management in a systematic way. The game will be designed to meet learning objectives in an innovative way to engage students beyond the classroom setting, based on established research. This project hopes to add to this literature with positive results.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Health Literacy in Action for Opioid Misuse

Opioid prescriptions and lack of awareness and information fuel the opioid epidemic, leading to the increased risk for potential of opioid misuse and addiction. This project will bring opioid awareness information and public health information seeking skills to older 88, Hispanic community, 12s, health providers and the public. During our planned opioid education sessions, attendees will hear a presentation by an opioid education professional; be provided easy to read take home materials and be introduced to NLM electronic health information products.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Building FAIR Habits: Pilot FAIR Data Workshop for Data Novices

This is a train-the-trainer project on FAIR Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable data basics for data novices. The overall concept is to meet data novices at their comfort levels, in order to increase workforce awareness of open science and FAIR data. We propose to hold a workshop on FAIR data habits for librarians new to thinking about data. Librarians will then pilot small conversation starters with patrons new to FAIR data, and share back insights on whether that appears to have benefitted their patrons.

June 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Understanding Rates of Attrition in Biomedical Data Challenges: A Study of Failure

Biomedical data challenges are interdisciplinary live or virtual competitive events that require participants to analyze big biomedical data and develop prototype solutions to real-world problems that accelerate innovation of medical applications, improve healthcare technology design, and help streamline healthcare business models Wang, et al., 2018.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2021
Interprofessional Infant Oral Health Education at the Community Engagement Center

Dental caries i.e., tooth decay can cause severe pain that prevents 86 from eating and sleeping. Despite the significant negative impact that caries can have on 86s well-being, health professionals often do not provide families with the information they need to keep their 86 cavity-free. A major contributor to this gap in preventive dental care is a lack of awareness on the part of healthcare professionals about the child dental health resources that are available through the NIH U.S. National Library of Medicine NNLM.

May 15, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Empowering Youth to Access Reliable Health Information

CT-NAHN aims to improve the capacity of under-served adolescents and 87 to locate and integrate reliable health information so they can make informed health decisions. The overall goal of the proposed project is to work with youth in Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford counties in CT. and enhance their access to local and national health information resources. We also want to improve the capacity of their teachers to incorporate health information resources and health literacy best practices into their classrooms.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Miami-Dade Public Library Systems Virtual Nutrition & Food Literacy Program

The Virtual Nutrition and Food Literacy Program will address the health information needs of the communities serviced by the Miami-Dade Public Library System by offering two portable kitchen carts that will be used for creating culturally relevant virtual cooking and culinary demonstration events. The acquisition of the kitchen carts will also allow for in-person events post-Covid, expanding the library's repertoire of programming to include more food and nutrition literacy that addresses the communitys health and wellness.

January 25, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Health Information and Career Awareness Program

Southern Alabama Area Health Education Center SAAHEC strives to grow the next generation of medical professionals to serve the people of Alabama, train health profession students and provide health information and education to the communities in our 10 counties. The Health Information and Career Awareness Program HICAP contributes to the mission of National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM by improving our communities access and awareness of health information and enabling them to make informed decisions about their health.

June 12, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Surviving COVID-19, In A Virtual World

Surviving COVID-19, In A Virtual World. Our plans are to educate, train and inform as many Community members on how to protect themselves from contracting and spreading the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Global Pandemic Virus by providing programs that will increase access and awareness on how to use the Internet/Computer and other technological devices to find online reliable COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 health information using CDC Guidelines, NIH, NNLM and MedlinePlus.gov website while practicing social distancing.

February 1, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Building a Resilient Westchester through Technology and 88tal Health Literacy

The Greenburgh Public Library will partner with community organizations and stakeholders, including Research member organizations to increase mental health literacy with the goal of improving community awareness of the continuum of mental health and the relationship to other components of overall wellness, reduce stigma, improve information/resource access and foster connection, resilience and help seeking behaviors in the Greenburgh and greater Westchester communities.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Supporting a Healthy Community Head to Toe: Food for Health 2020-2021

To provide a safe and fun environment for 86 and 88, individuals and families to learn about healthy options for food and cooking. We believe that the Charlotte Library is an ideal space for a flexible, mobile kitchen set-up, using the equipment supplies and training materials from the Charlie Cart Project. The Charlie Cart Project provides a unique and scalable educational program that enables hands-on learning about food, nutrition, and health in any setting.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
MOVING Beyond COVID-19: Helping Consumers Move toward Emotional Wellness through Accessible Online Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emotional wellness in many ways. A team of health 12s and plain language writers seek to address emotional wellness needs exacerbated by COVID-19 by adapting, developing, and promoting accessible authoritative consumer health resources. The team will adapt the English language How to M.O.V.E. toward Emotional Wellness print booklet into an interactive, web-based tutorial to provide an ongoing source of emotional wellness learning and support and link learners to additional topical NLM/NIH/CDC resources.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Educating African American Nurses About Key Topics in Precision Medicine Using National Library of Medicine Resources

African American nurses are well-positioned to educate themselves and their communities about the importance of African American community engagement in precision medicine research like the National Institute of Health NIH research program.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Nursing Experts: Translating the Evidence Phase 3 NExT3

Since 2001, the University of Illinois at Chicagos Library of the Health Sciences and the College of Nursing have been engaged in a series of evidence-based education programs targeted to public health nurses. These programs have expanded and built upon each other and used partnerships and connections towards providing equal access to biomedical information to all U.S. health professionals and the use of scientific evidence to guide healthcare decision making.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The San Francisco Bay Areas Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Digitizing and Providing Universal Access to Historical AIDS Records

The Archives and Special Collections Archives department of the University of California, San Francisco UCSF Library, seeks a support from the NNLM to digitize approximately 43,000-45,000 pages from 15 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area and make them widely accessible to the public on the Internet. This new digital collection will address the gaps that exist in relation to materials chronicling the experience and struggles of communities of color and marginalized communities in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
STAYing Healthy and Informed: Decoding 101 Information and Resources for LBGT Youth Experiencing Homelessness in New York City

In a coordinated effort between Project STAY, New Alternatives for LGBT Youth, and Citizens Public Health Literacy CIPHER, our group will seek to increase access to and awareness of 101 health information, clinical resources, and enhance linkages to direct care services for high risk and HIV positive youth. Project STAYs mission is to provide a medical home for high-risk and HIV positive youth by creating opportunities for young people to receive comprehensive, integrated clinical and supportive services delivered by a team of experienced, interdisciplinary providers.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
TEACH Across Alabama: Training, Educating, Advising, Connecting, and Helping Alabamas Healthcare Workforce and Healthcare Consumers Navigate the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Global Pandemic

The COVID pandemic has highlighted the need for the long-overdue dissemination of appropriate, timely, and accurate information to the 125. With the rising tide of misinformation and the safety of the public in jeopardy, it is imperative that people are trained to find the most accurate information from reliable sources. Empowering individuals, community leaders, and engaged citizens with the tools to uncover accurate information lays the foundation for trust so that a sustainable web of understanding, information, and knowledge can be built.

December 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Informacion para tu Salud en tu Casa

La Casa de Salud LCS is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of the Hispanic community by providing health information and resources and by facilitating the provision of health services through community health workers CHWs. Over the last two years, LCS has educated and trained approximately 30 CHWs and strategically placed them where they can serve the greater Richmond Hispanic community. LCS has provided a variety of services to over 1,000 individuals during this time.

January 18, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Learning Your Way to a Healthy Brain

The Rhode Island College Foundation is facilitating the collaboration of the James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College with the Colleges Age-Friendly Rhode Island a coalition of community and state agencies, healthcare and social service providers, individuals of all ages, advocacy and faith-based organizations, businesses, academic institutions and municipal leaders who are committed to healthy aging to produce and deliver presentations on brain health.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Connect for your health

Connect for your health is a partnership between Hershey Public Library and the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to bring consumer health resources to those in our community who fall between the cracks of the digital divide. A series of virtual workshops will introduce attendees to the wealth of resources available online and in their community to support their health and wellness. This program will be targeted to those in our community who do not have in-home internet access. Attendees will be provided with a laptop and internet hot spot in order to attend.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Healthy and Digital Literacy Train the Trainer Program

This project will enhance Miami-Dade Public Library Systems MDPLS ability to provide health literacy information and reference services to the public through the expansion of staff health literacy professional development, a program for trauma-informed service staff training and to purchase the Public Library Associations PLA customizable Digital Learn online platform offering training for digital literacy and health information.

August 27, 2020 - April 30, 2021
University of Cincinnati 101 Workshop Series

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV is entirely preventable, yet each year tens of the thousands of Americans are newly infected with the virus. As these numbers continue to increase, estimates have indicated that prevention and treatment are not reaching those who could most benefit, and that subgroups of this populate are disproportionately affected [1]. Notably, men who have sex with men and African American males consistently have the highest incidence rates [1]. Stigma at the community level has been documented as a barrier to HIV prevention [2].

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
HIP for 89 Health Information Project for 89

The HIP for 89 Health Information Project for 89 will involve training for the approximately 75 participants at the Parkway Senior Center in Mobile on computer literacy and health information literacy HIL. HIL training will focus on resources from the National Library of Medicine and other agencies of the National Institutes of Health. The project will also include sessions by community professionals on health topics of interest to the senior population. NLM and NIH resources related to that session topic will be highlighted.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Providing access to health information documents and promoting health education.

Healthdove Inc. is seeking this funding to expand their health information resources with the objective of increasing health literacy and reducing health disparities. The objective is to increase health literacy by distributing health information through the development of a newsletter, the implementation of health talk radio app and a series of health presentations/screenings in the community. Individuals will be able to use the information to make informed decisions about their health.

January 18, 2021 - April 30, 2021
The New England Minority Nursing Collaborative: Promoting Access to Health Information.

Through an established network of seven New England chapters of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. and the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, NNLM health information will disseminated using a multi-prong approach to engage community organizations, 126s and the 125.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
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