ELEVATED and Connected – PH/HA Travel Stipend Recap
The 2019 MLA Annual Meeting centered the conversations around improving support and services and growing the profession. The theme this year was ELEVATE, and that reflected…
In Memoriam: Tanji Gibson
Submitted by Amy Allison, AHIP, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and Tara Douglas-Williams, M. Delmar Edwards, M.D., Library, Morehouse School of…
Open Educational Resources: What you need to know
What is OER? Open educational resources [OER] are digitized materials that are free or very low cost to students. They can be textbooks, videos, case…
In Memoriam: Lila Pedersen
Librarians at the University of North Dakota (UND) were saddened to hear of the death of Lila (Gandolf) Pedersen who passed away on March 19,…
Vaccine hesitancy in the news
As all of us surely are aware, there is an increasing incidence of vaccine preventable infectious disease around the world – pertussis, varicella, measles,…
Congratulations to the 2019 RTI Fellows!
MLA is pleased to announce the 2019 Research Training Institute (RTI) Fellows! The fellows will attend the RTI in Chicago from July 15–19, 2019. Our…
FYI: A Helping of Libraries Helping
Much about the success of libraries and librarians not only to disseminate health care information, but also to implement solutions has been heralded here in…
In Memoriam: Catherine M. Boss, AHIP
Catherine (Cathy) M. Boss, AHIP, passed away March 3, 2019. In November 2018, she was diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer, then had renal…
Medical Library Education: Design Thinking
Librarians who are engaged in medical library education are often called upon to provide instruction on a host of topics in various surroundings before diverse…
International Toxicity Estimates of Risk
In addition to being the liaison to the Masters in Public Health program at MSU, I’m also the liaison to the Department of Pharmacology and…
In Memoriam: Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP
Submitted by Andrew Clifton Humphrey Jr., Detroit, MI Susanne M. Humphrey, AHIP, of Wheaton, MD, passed away on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, at age seventy-four.…
In Memoriam: James Patrick Craig
James Patrick (Pat) Craig was born December 10, 1942, in Gould, AR. He passed away in Shreveport, LA, on January 15, 2019. He went to…
In Memoriam: Mary Wickline
Mary Wickline, medical librarian at the University of California–San Diego (UCSD), passed away on Saturday, December 8, 2018, after a long illness. She was at…
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,…
RTI Fellows Share Experiences at NNLM MCR Webinar
Liz Kellermeyer and Alicia Lillich, 2018 Research Training Institute (RTI) fellows and members of the MidContinental Region (MCR) of the National Network of Libraries of…
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…
RTI Fellow Shares Experience in Blog
Elizabeth Suelzer, 2018 Research Training Institute (RTI) fellow, recently participated in the RTI program in Chicago and shared her experience for the Wisconsin Health Sciences…
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…