Nutrition and Health Information Literacy in New Haven Public Schools

This project brings New Haven Public School (NHPS) teachers/librarians, medical librarians from Quinnipiac University and Yale University, medical, and nutritional experts to develop a health information literacy curriculum. We will center on two initial areas: evaluating and applying nutritional information so students can make better decisions about diet, and evaluating health information in order to make better decisions about health claims. By doing so we will further the NNLM mission of “...improving individuals’ access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.”