Express Outreach Award Recipients

Posted by nwsoadmin on June 13th, 2014 Posted in: Funding, News From NNLM PNR

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The NN/LM PNR congratulates the following Spring 2014 Express Outreach award recipients, funded up to $15,000 to improve use of quality online health information resources by priority populations and to promote awareness and use of the products and services of the NLM and the NN/LM:

Project Title: Alaska Health Education Library Project (AHELP)
Project Manager: Jayne Andreen, Alaska Division of Public Health, Juneau, AK
Summary: Increase Alaska’s prevention and health promotion capacity for evidence- and outcome-based programming and evaluation by increasing the prevention and promotion workforce’s awareness and utilization of NLM resources” through conferences and live and web-based trainings.

Project Title: Equipping Peer Language Navigators for Outreach in Anchorage, Alaska Communities
Project Manager: Polly Smith, The Anchorage Health Literacy Collaborative, Anchorage, AK
Summary: Train Peer Language Navigators to utilize NLM resources such as PubMed, Medline and Arctic health to identify relevant, credible health information to share with community members to promote health.

Project Title: Outreach Training Program on Evidence-based Management for Healthcare Administrators in Idaho
Project Manager: Ruiling Guo, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
Summary: Provide a face-to-face training program on evidence-based management to the underserved hospital administrators in rural Idaho.

Project Title: Environmental Health Connection for Rural Oregon Schools
Project Manager: Shelley Dougherty, Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, Lincoln City, OR
Summary: Build on the education program by providing twelve one hour classes to four schools and two tribal education programs in northwest rural Oregon using the ToxTown curriculum