Funding Opportunity: NNLM All of Us Community Awards
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NAPC Community Awards
Award Amount: $30,000
Number of Awards Available: 5
Application Deadline: August 26, 2022
Get Started Today!
The NNLM All of Us Program Center is excited to announce our Community Award grants! Community Awards provide funding to design and implement programming to increase community skills in health literacy, digital literacy and/or public understanding of clinical research, build community partnerships, and promote All of Us and NNLM resources.
Application materials, in-depth instructions, and other resources can be found in the online announcement.
Questions? Email LIB-NAPCengage@uiowa.edu.
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Featured resource: LiverTox
LiverTox: An Online Resource for Information on Drug-induced Liver Injury provides up-to-date, unbiased and easily accessed information on the diagnosis, cause, frequency, clinical patterns and management of liver injury attributable to prescription and nonprescription medications and selected herbal and dietary supplements. The LiverTox site is meant as a resource for both physicians and patients as well as for clinical academicians and researchers who specialize in idiosyncratic drug induced hepatotoxicity.
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Join us for a discussion of the book “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down” by Anne Fadiman
You are invited to join us for the second NNLM Book Discussion. From August 1 until October 31, we will read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. After acquiring the book in your preferred format, you can join us any time between August 1 until October 31 to participate.
Learn more and register here.
House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy
U.S. Surgeon General
Dr. Vivek Murthy launched a new podcast, House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy, highlighting the vital need for people to build connections with one another, not just for individual health and wellbeing, but for our collective recovery as a nation. Guests will include experts and thought leaders in their field who have found ways to forge deeper connections, showcase a human-centered view of public health, and build community and healing.
News from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater
From the NLM Director’s blog: Using Large Datasets to Improve Health Outcomes
From the NIH Director’s blog: Climate Change and Health Initiative to Expand Research, Build Resiliency
NLM’s History of Medicine: Challenge: Science Against Cancer, 1950
New National Cancer Institute (NCI) monograph, Treating Smoking in Cancer Patients: An Essential Component of Cancer Care, provides an updated synthesis of evidence clarifying the need to intervene with patients with cancer who smoke.
Understanding Medical Scans is an app designed to help patients learn what to expect during a medical scan and how scans can help with both diagnosis and treatment.
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Upcoming Webinars and Classes
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Times listed are in Central Time
August 2, 12 - 1pm
Office of Minority Health Resource Center: National Service for Minority Health Resources & Information
August 3, 10 - 11am
How Implicit Bias Affects Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
August 11, 12:30 - 2pm
Understanding the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
August 18, 10 - 11am
Team Science: Increasing the Pipeline of Black, Indigenous, People of Color and Women Conducting Clinical Research
August 23, 1 - 2:30pm
PBC Living Library Project*
August 24, 3 - 4pm
Storytelling as a Public Health Strategy to Address Inequities in Maternal Health Outcomes
September 14, 1 - 2pm
Health Statistics on the Web*
September 22, 12:30 - 2pm
Diving Deeper into the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
September 27, 1 - 2:15pm
Inclusive Disaster Planning: Considering the Needs of People with Disabilities*
October 6, 12 - 1pm
Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information
The full schedule for upcoming NNLM classes is available online.
4 Steps to Receive New Class Notifications from NNLM
Our blog post has instructions and screenshots on how to set up your account to get the new class notifications once a week.
NNLM Region 6, serves the states of IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, OH, & WI.
News to Share? Get in Touch!
Have recent news, events, or funding opportunities to share? Submit content to nora-barnett@uiowa.edu for a future newsletter.
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