I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means: How COVID-19 Systematic Reviews Don’t Fit the Mold
Submitted by Aidy Weeks, AHIP, UNLV Health Sciences Library, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, and Kathryn Vela, AHIP, Portland VA Healthcare System, Portland, ORA global pandemic…
Global Health & Health Equity: Assisting Clinicians in Addressing Human Trafficking
Written by Amy Sharpe, Sharp HealthCare, and Founder and Cochair, Health Subcommittee, San Diego Human Trafficking & Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Advisory Council,…
MLA and AAHSL comment on public access
Today, the Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) commented on the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) Request for Information:…
NLM Receives Stimulus Funding to Prevent, Prepare for, and Respond to the Coronavirus
The $2 trillion economic stimulus bill, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136), in response to the COVID-19 outbreak provides an…
MLA and AAHSL comments to NLM addressing ClinicalTrials.gov Modernization
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) have responded to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Request for Comments…
MLA and AAHSL comments on Draft Desirable Characteristics of Repositories for Managing and Sharing Data Resulting from Federally Funded Research
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) have responded to the Request for Comments from the White House Office…
Consumer Health: Emotional Health in the Library: Part II: Emotional Labor
Miriam Matteson, associate professor at Kent State University,presented on emotional labor at theOhio Health Sciences Library Association Fall 2019 Meeting. In “Emotional Health in the…
London’s Cholera Epidemic and 21st Century America – Strikingly Similar
Recently, I’ve been working on a research project about access to health information during the 19th century London cholera epidemics. My interest in the subject…
2019 Novel Coronavirus Information
International Cooperation Caucus officers have gathered a few key links to information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus infection. CDC 2019 Novel Coronavirus WHO Novel Coronavirus…
Introducing the Global Health & Health Equity Column!
Image by Tumisu from Pixabay. Welcome to the inaugural Global Health & Health Equity column! This column will cover hub activities and be a platform…
MLA and AAHSL Comment on Draft NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing
The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) have responded to the Request for Comments from the National Institutes of Health…
Caucus News: Enhancing Patient Experience through Patient-Centered Library Services
Editor’s Note: Republished and edited with permission from the September 2019 Consumer Connections, volume 35, issue 3, pages 3–4. The Bedford Veterans Administration (VA) provides…
Caucus News: Book Review
Editor’s Note: Republished and edited with permission from the September 2019 Consumer Connections, volume 35, issue 3, page 6. Elaine Birchall and Suzanne Cronkwright. Conquer…
Have a Discussion about Plan S
Members of the International Cooperation Caucus may have heard of Plan S, but have your faculty and students? It’s a major change in scholarly communication,…
Finding World Health Organization documents with the Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS)
The World Health Organization’s bookstore recently suspended its standing order service for libraries in order to transition to a new order processing system. Its website…
MLA Comments on Evolving the National Network of Libraries of Medicine
The Medical Library Association (MLA) has responded to the National Library of Medicine’s Request for Information (RFI) on Evolving the National Network of Libraries of…
Celebrating 16th Biennial AHILA Congress in Nigeria
With partial support from the MLA ICS Reis Grant, I attended the 16th Biennial Congress for Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA)…
MLA and AAHSL comments on the use of the FHIR standard for capturing and sharing clinical data
Today, the Medical Library Association (MLA) and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) [Link removed (16055)] on how the Health Level Seven International (HL7®) Fast Healthcare…
Public Health Primary Sources
Posted on behalf of the blog writer, Erin Anthony. As the Public Health and Research Support Librarian for Brown University’s Rockefeller Library, I am always…
ToxNet Alternatives: Occupational Health Resources
I suspect that many PHHA members have already heard that ToxNet is going offline as of December 2019. Some of its many databases/tools will be…