[Skip to Content]
Visit our RSS Feed View our RSS Feed
Bringing Health Information to the Community April 20th, 2021
CategoriesCategoriesCategories Contact UsContact Us ArchivesArchives Region/OfficeNNLM SearchSearch

Feb

17

Date prong graphic

POC in History of Medicine Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Posted by on February 17th, 2021 Posted in: General
Tags: , ,

Join Megan Rosenbloom, UCLA Collection Strategies Librarian, and the Medical Library Association (MLA) on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 from 12:30-2:30pm Pacific Time to edit Wikipedia entries about People of Color (POC) and their significant contributions to American medical history. Examples include:

  • Sojourner Truth & Harriet Tubman, healthcare workers & advocates in addition to being famous abolitionists.
  • Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail, one of the first Native American registered nurses who traveled the U.S. providing indigenous people with greater access to healthcare.
  • Vivien Thomas, the laboratory supervisor who became a cardiac surgery pioneer and developed a lifesaving procedure to treat blue baby syndrome

No experience necessary, as this first event will introduce Wikipedia editing. Register for the event to join the day of, participate in the training, and learn more about getting set up. Read Megan’s event description below. Register using this form by February 24 and contact Megan, MLA History of the Health Sciences Caucus Chair, with any questions. This event is hosted by the Medical Library Association’s History of the Health Sciences Caucus Anti-Racist Task Force and is open to the public.

Image of the author ABOUT Nora Franco
Nora Franco (she/her/ella) works as the Consumer Health Librarian for NNLM PSR at UCLA. She is passionate about eliminating health disparities and empowering people to participate in their healthcare by locating reliable health information.

Email author View all posts by

Recent Posts

Email Digest

Email Emily Hamstra (ehamstra@uw.edu) to receive a digest of the day’s BHIC posts via email.

Blog Categories

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012344 with the University of Utah, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library.​

NNLM and NETWORK OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE are service marks of the US Department of Health and Human Services | Copyright | Download PDF Reader