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Aug
02
0 comments Tags: community health workers, National Library of Medicine, resources
This blog post is an excerpt from Community Health Workers: The State of the Evidence, 2021, written by Elijah Olivas and Hannah Marcus, and edited by Jaime Holbrook. Community health workers play a critical role in maintaining and improving individual and collective health outcomes. Yet their contributions and potential remain under-recognized and CHW programs underfunded. By… Read More »
Posted in: Funded Project
Jul
08
0 comments Tags: hospital librarians, hospital library advisory group, National Library of Medicine
Welcome to the newly configured Region 7. Over the next five years, we will invest staff and time to connect with hospital librarians in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. Region 7 will host annual “Welcome” meetings, and gather input for the development of national webinars that serve the needs… Read More »
Posted in: Announcements
Dec
21
0 comments Tags: funded partner, history of medicine, National Library of Medicine, Public Health
We talk a lot about resources like MedlinePlus or PubMed, but one of the things we don’t talk about as much is the fact that the National Library of Medicine is a physical library that includes a large collection of historical documents, records and more. And these resources are available to the public through the… Read More »
Posted in: NLM Resources
Nov
16
0 comments Tags: MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine, Public Health
In November, 2019 and February, 2020, I wrote about NLM and NNLM resources that our public health partners often find particularly useful in their work. Since then, ongoing streamlining has moved, retired and reorganized some of the resources previously discussed in this series. So what’s new for our public health partners? HealthReach and Genetics Home… Read More »
Posted in: Public Health
Oct
09
0 comments Tags: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
On Wed, September 2, 2020, the National Institutes of Health held a one-day workshop on Inclusion Across the Lifespan. Presenters discussed the inclusion of pediatric and older populations in clinical trials, and showcased ways that the NIH is promoting age-based inclusion to the scientific community. According to the NIH Inclusion Across the Lifespan webpage: “In… Read More »
Posted in: NLM