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Feb

27

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Wisconsin Health Literacy Begins Workshops on GMR-Funded Project

Posted by on February 27th, 2019 0 comments

Despite the frigid cold and mounds of snow in Wisconsin, the GMR-funded project Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust is picking up steam! Through this project, Wisconsin Health Literacy is offering 32 “digital health literacy” workshops for consumers most at risk for low health literacy. Although weather has forced some workshops to be rescheduled,… Read More »

Posted in: Consumer Health, Funding, Public Libraries, Success Stories, Training

Feb

08

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Do You Love the GMR? Let Us Count the Ways!

Posted by on February 8th, 2019 0 comments

This February, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) Greater Midwest Region (GMR) is inviting you, our members and friends, to share how you’ve been impacted by the programs and services offered by our office. Have you… Attended GMR training that made a difference at your organization? Been awarded funding that made health information… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

Feb

05

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Registration Open for 4th Annual Data Day Event

Posted by on February 5th, 2019 0 comments Tags: ,

You are cordially invited to the University of Cincinnati’s 4th Annual Data Day sponsored by The University of Cincinnati Libraries and IT@UC. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are topics gaining national attention.  Our 4th Annual University of Cincinnati Data Day will explore these topics in depth and highlight how researchers can expand their understanding by considering… Read More »

Posted in: All of Us, Conferences and Meetings, Data Science

Jan

29

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New Year, New Email Platform!

Posted by on January 29th, 2019 0 comments

We hope everyone’s 2019 is off to a great start. We have been busy these past couple weeks on a new project we can finally share with you! We are excited to announce that the NNLM Greater Midwest Region is welcoming a new email platform to help share our weekly digest. We are utilizing GovDelivery… Read More »

Posted in: Blog

Jan

24

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GMR-Funded Project Works to Make Indigenous Nutritional Health Information Accessible

Posted by on January 24th, 2019 0 comments Tags:

Recent federal data has shown a disparity in obesity, and health concerns related to obesity, among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. The CDC reported in 2009 that 31.2% of American Indian four-year-olds were obese, the highest rate of any racial or ethnic group, and in 2015, according to IHS data, AI/AN people had… Read More »

Posted in: Funding, Success Stories

This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Grant Number 1UG4LM012346 with The University of Iowa.

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