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Apr
15
0 comments Tags: Community of Interest, graphic medicine
As the NNLM R7 year draws to a close at the end of April, it’s a good time to look back at all we’ve accomplished since May, 2021. The R7 year in Graphic Medicine was a year of restarting old projects, expanding others and even creating something new. Restarting-Graphic Medicine Book Club Kits After having… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Communities of Interest, Graphic Medicine
Apr
05
0 comments Tags: health disparities
Each April U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) organizes National Minority Health Month. Its goal is to highlight the important role individuals and organizations can play in helping to reduce health disparities and improve the health of racial and ethnic minority and American Indian/Alaska Native communities. This year’s… Read More »
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Mar
28
0 comments Tags: citizen science resources, Wikipedia
Each year, NNLM hosts 2 Wikipedia Edit-a-thons to improve health topic pages on Wikipedia. We identify a topic and articles in need of improvement. Then we join experienced and new Wikipedia editors to work together to add citations to quality health information resources. For this Spring 2022 #CiteNLM campaign, we are focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH…. Read More »
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Mar
28
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In the United States, Black women are three times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than White women Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality | Health Equity Features | CDC. We would like to highlight some events and resources in the month of April to promote maternal health and Black Maternal Health… Read More »
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Mar
18
0 comments Tags: graphic medicine, hospital librarians, Member Spotlight
Alice Stokes is a Research and Education Librarian at the Dana Medical Library at the University of Vermont. Being a lifelong Vermonter, Alice feels that it’s important to be involved in her community and the importance of working together means that she has worked with NNLM R7 (and NER previously) on many projects including graphic… Read More »
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