Join the PH/HA Meeting Jan. 14, 2019
A number of things that affect PH/HA have come up recently. We therefore are holding an online PH/HA Section meeting on Monday, January 14, 2019…
The National Guidelines Clearinghouse Returns – as the ECRI Guidelines Trust
This month’s blog will discuss the revival of the National Guidelines Clearinghouse and its redevelopment into the ECRI Guidelines Trust at https://guidelines.ecri.org/. As most of you know,…
Report from InSight Summit 2: How Can Librarians, Publishers, and Providers of Discovery and Management Tools Collaborate to More Effectively Communicate the Value of Information?
Submitted by Nadine Dexter, AHIP, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida–Orlando; Deborah Harris, F1000, London, United Kingdom; Emma Cryer Heet, AHIP,…
Report from InSight Summit 2: How Information Providers and Libraries Can Collaborate in Supporting Users in Developing Information Literacy through the Research/Publishing Life Cycle
Submitted by Priya Arora, Wolters Kluwer; John Gallagher, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Tracy Gardner, Renew Publishing Consultants; Susan…
In Memoriam: Barbara Meadows
Barbara Meadows, Nashville, TN, died November 2, 2016. Meadows was a graduate of Belmont College in nursing and later earned her library degree. Meadows was…
Case Law for Public Health
A person’s environment and the actions that person takes both affect their overall health. Public health legislation shapes the public health environment. Laws regulate what…
Quantification and Peer Review: Possible Impacts of New Peer Review Tracker
I recently went to a meeting with a vendor representative from Clarivate Analytics (the company that owns Web of Science, among other widely used resources).…
Announcing Nadya Okamoto as Featured Speaker at MLA ’19 | Elevate!
MLA is pleased to announce that Nadya Okamoto will be the featured 2019 Joseph Leiter National Library of Medicine (NLM)/MLA Lecturer during MLA ’19 in…
In Memoriam: Maxine Hanke
Photo credit: National Library of MedicineDigital Collections Maxine Hanke passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018. Hanke received a bachelor’s degree from the University of…
Consumer Health: Institute for Healthcare Advancement Annual Health Literacy Conference
Submitted by Ophelia Morey, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY; edited by Christine Willis, AHIP May 2018 marked the 17th year that the…
In Memoriam: Robert Bartlett, AHIP
Robert Bartlett, AHIP, died August 26, 2018. He worked as a reference librarian, an integral part of the Houston Methodist system, making sure everyone had…
2018 PH/HA Research Awardee – Rosie Hanneke
The Public Health/Health Administration Section (PH/HA) presented the 2018 PH/HA Research Award to Rosie Hanneke, Assistant Professor and Information Services Librarian at UIC Library…
Target: Data
Students at my institution are required to analyze raw data as part of their capstone course. The professors define raw data as data about an individual rather…
In Memoriam: Rochelle Minchow
Rochelle Minchow, of Irvine, CA, passed away on May 2, 2018, at age seventy. She retired as librarian in 2005 at the Biomedical and Science…
FYI: Laughter
Laughter is medicine, right? A source for vibrancy, pep, and well-being, agreed? Sources across the gamut of communication tend to think so… and say so.…
Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Imagining the Ideal Social Networking Site for Collaboration and Sharing
Submitted by Richard Gallagher, Annual Reviews; Linné Girouard, AHIP, Library, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; Steven Heffer, Wolters Kluwer; and Rich Lampert, Doody Consulting, Philadelphia,…
Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Leveraging Specialized Discovery Tools to Maximize User Engagement
Submitted by Caitlin Cricco, Springer Nature, New York, NY; Nadine Dexter, AHIP, Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library, University of Central Florida–Orlando; Donna Gibson, Medical…
Applications for InSight Initiative Summit 2 Sought
The InSight Initiative Task Force is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the second InSight Initiative Summit, “Meeting the Evolving Information…
PH/HA Travel Stipend Enables Thinking about Librarianship, Public Health, Social Justice and Health Equity
Public health is always on my mind, but daily activities can push big picture concerns to the backburner. I applied for the PH/HA Travel Stipend…