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Oct
12
0 comments Tags: community engagement, nutrition, youth
This post is part of a series on NNLM NER’s funded projects. In FY2016-2017, NNLM NER funded the Mason Square Branch of Springfield City Library (MA) for the Health In The Square project. Goals of this project included: strengthening community partnerships, providing healthy and nutritious food, and encouraging health literacy. The Mason Square Branch Library is… Read More »
Posted in: Funded Project, Public Health
Oct
10
0 comments Tags: #differently-abled, #disabilities awareness 2017, #diversity, #inclusion
“Inclusion Drives Innovation” is the theme of this year’s national awareness campaign about disabilities. The goal of highlighting October as National Disability Awareness Month is meant to draw our attention to the contributions made to the workplace, our communities and our families by people who have disabilities. To me, the word “disability” carries a… Read More »
Posted in: NLM Resources, Patient Engagement, Public Health
Oct
11
Exploring Hunger and Graphic Medicine with MEDstudio@JEFF and Design Philadelphia
Posted by NNLM Region 7 on October 11th, 2017 0 comments Tags: graphic medicine, Teaching
Last week I had the great pleasure to travel to Philadelphia to participate on the opening panel for this year’s MEDstudio@JEFF collaboration with Design Philadelphia. The short description of the event is that artist Tom Judd is spending a week creating a mural of 7,500 apples, with each apple representing 100 people, in order to… Read More »
Posted in: Commentary, Graphic Medicine