Greetings Pacific Northwest Region!<\/p>\n
Know any physician assistants or librarians with whom you want to partner?\u00a0 How about a group with which you’ve always wanted to do outreach activities surrounding health information?\u00a0 The NN\/LM PNR is pleased to announce two new funding opportunities.<\/p>\n
First, there is the “Health Information Literacy Partnership Award: Physician Assistants & Librarians.”\u00a0 The goals of this award are:<\/p>\n
* To promote health information literacy and surrounding issues; See the full announcement and find the application for the “Health Literacy Partnership Award” at: http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/funding\/HealthLitPAs.html<\/p>\n Next, we have another round of “Express Outreach Awards.”\u00a0 Goals of these awards are:<\/p>\n * To improve use of quality online health information resources by priority populations (as defined below); The full announcement this year’s Express Outreach Awards, along with the application are linked here: http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/funding\/Express_Outreach_Jan_2010.html.<\/p>\n Both of these awards will be for a maximum of $12,000<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then deadline for both applications is April 23, 2010<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you have questions contact Gail Kouame, Consumer Health Coordinator, at gmarie@u.washington.edu<\/a> or Cathy Burroughs, Associate Director, at cburroug@u.washington.edu<\/a>.\u00a0 You can also call the Regional Medical Library at 1-800-338-7657 (in AK, ID, MT,\u00a0 OR, and WA) or 206-543-8262.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings Pacific Northwest Region! Know any physician assistants or librarians with whom you want to partner?\u00a0 How about a group with which you’ve always wanted to do outreach activities surrounding health information?\u00a0 The NN\/LM PNR is pleased to announce two new funding opportunities. First, there is the “Health Information Literacy Partnership Award: Physician Assistants &… Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-regional-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17378,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/17378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* To improve the use of quality health information resources for patient education by physician assistants;
\n* To promote strategies for improving patient health information literacy by physician assistants;
\n* To foster local health information expertise among physician assistants;
\n* To promote awareness and use of the products and services of the NLM and the NNLM, including, but not limited to the InfoRx Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n* To promote health information literacy in health education and health care;
\n* To build or strengthen partnerships between network members and other community organizations;
\n* To foster local health information expertise in community organizations;
\n* To promote awareness and use of the products and services of the NLM and the NNLM.<\/p>\n