The American Library Association and the National Library of Medicine want to help you show your patrons how to find the information that will help them achieve good health. The Good Health Information website http://olos.ala.org/goodhealth/ introduces the resources of the National Library of Medicine and provides information that helps communities of color in rural settings make good health decisions. Specifically, the site addresses the diseases and illnesses that disproportionately affect people of color. [From American Libraries Direct 12/23/2008 toolbar  http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=m292611&si=398419967&cfc=3html]

As I’m sure is true at many of your institutions, Creighton University will be closed through January 5th. I will most like check my email a few times during the break, but postings to the blog will be few. Enjoy time with family and friends, and safe travels if you find yourself on the road.

Effective Dissemination of Findings from Research – a compilation of essays

Foreword, Egon Jonsson
Contributors
David Hailey, Jeremy Grimshaw, Martin Eccles, Craig Mitton, Carol E. Adair, Emily McKenzie, Scott Patten, Brenda Waye-Perry, Leif Rentzhog, Paul Taenzer, Christa Harstall, Saifee Rashiq, Pamela Barton, Don Schopflocher, Lynda Jobin
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE) 2008 - University of Alberta

Available online PDF [88p.] at: http://www.ihe.ca/documents/Dissemination_0.pdf

“….While the notion of the value of and need for Knowledge Transfer and Exchange KTE has received wide support, it has also been acknowledged that both researchers and decision makers are driven by demands that may not be conducive to successful Knowledge Transfer and Exchange KTE. For researchers, these demands include challenges such as adapting the research cycle to fit real-world timelines, establishing relationships with decision makers, and justifying activities which fit poorly with traditional academic performance expectations (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation 1999). For decision makers, a perceived lack of knowledge of the research process, the traditional academic format of communication, and a lack of timely results are frequently cited barriers to using research findings (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation 1999). Both parties also frequently lament the lack of time and resources to participate in Knowledge Transfer and Exchange KTE. [posted on PAHO/WHO Equity list]

North American Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Mobilizing Knowledge: Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
June 3-5, 2009 in Washington DC
Call for Abstracts Due Jan 15
http://www.nationalaidshousing.org/PDF/CFA.pdf
The US National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC), working in collaboration with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and the Department of Health, Behavior and Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is pleased to announce the fourth Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit, a meeting of leading health, housing and social service researchers and policy makers. The Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit series is an interdisciplinary, interactive forum for the presentation of  research findings on the relationship of housing status and HIV prevention and care, coupled with dialogue on public policy implications and strategies among researchers, policy makers, and providers and consumers of HIV housing and services. [ posted on Cbpr listserv]

QualityTools is a compilation of practical tools for assessing, measuring, promoting, and improving the quality of health care. Its purpose is to give health plans, providers, purchasers, consumers, and policymakers easy access to a variety of resources they can use to improve the delivery of care, inform decisions, and educate people about their health care needs. http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/qualitytools/

http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20506
Salud America! is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that supports research on environmental and policy solutions to the epidemic of obesity among Latino children. The program also aims to develop a network of researchers whose findings will help identify the most promising obesity-prevention strategies specifically tailored for Latino communities. Findings will advance RWJF’s efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.

If anyone is participating in this research could you please contact Medical Librarian and blog reader Annabelle Nunez at anunez@ahsl.arizona.edu

Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) 2009 Conference
Latinos in the Heartland
http://www.cambiodecolores.org
May 18-20, 2009
Millennium Center
University of Missouri - St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
The deadline for submitting abstracts is January 23rd, 2009.
The full Call for Abstracts is available in the Web, at the following address:
http://www.cambiodecolores.org/2009/Documents/2009CallForAbstracts.htm
Cambio de Colores is an annual conference that, since 2002, brings together researchers, practitioners, and community members to discuss the issues that Missouri and Heartland states face as a result of the demographic changes that became evident in the 2000 Census. The 2009 meeting will be a multi-state conference.  For this occasion, the  University of Missouri’s Cambio Center is working in cooperation with the twelve-state North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, and the Immigrants in Midwestern Communities Inter University Network.

2009 Public Health Preparedness Summit
Public health preparedness professionals from across the nation will share innovative best practices, tools, and resources to help you build and sustain your community’s capacity to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a public health emergency or disaster. http://www.phprep.org/2009/?CFID=2487407&CFTOKEN=48417005

Nomination Period Opens for Purpose Prize
Deadline: March 5, 2009
The Purpose Prize ( http://www.purposeprize.org/ ) provides five  awards of $100,000 each to people over the age of 60 who are working to address society’s biggest challenges. To be eligible for the prize, nominees must be at least 60 years  old (by the deadline of March 5, 2009) and be a legal resident of  the United States (including its territories). Nominees should  have initiated important innovations as part of an encore career  and should be currently working in a leadership capacity in an  organization or institution (public, private, nonprofit, or for-profit) to address a major social problem in the U.S. or abroad. Nominees should have demonstrated recent creativity and leadership, with the promise of more to come. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016227/purposeprize

Former Talk Show Host Jenny Jones Announces Continuation of Community Grant Program
Deadline: Open
Talk show host and philanthropist Jenny Jones has announced that  she will donate an additional $1 million to continue her Jenny’s  Heroes ( http://www.jennysheroes.com/ ) community grant program. The Jenny’s Heroes program awards grants to individuals who  submit the best ideas for tangible, lasting community projects. Jenny’s Heroes provides grants of up to $25,000 each to fund  projects that promise long-term community benefits. Through the  fifty grant recipients so far, funds have been used to provide  items and services such as library books, school computers,  firefighting gear, nursing home upgrades, sports equipment,  free dental services, wheelchairs, coats for children in  domestic violence shelters, and a running track at a women’s  prison. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016232/jennysheroes

Kaiser Family Foundation Offers Media Fellowships in Health
Deadline: March 3, 2009
A program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Kaiser Media  Fellowships in Health program is a flexible opportunity for  print, broadcast, and online journalists to pursue an area of  interest in U.S. health policy issues. Any journalist, editor, or producer specializing in health  reporting — or wanting to do so — is eligible.  http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016236/kffmediafellows

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This three-day summit attempted to showcase the collective contribution of NIH in the development of new knowledge in the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities; highlight the progress of NIH minority health and health disparities research activities to improve prevention, diagnostic, and treatment methods; increase awareness and understanding of disparities in health; showcase best-practice models in research, capacity-building, outreach, and integrated strategies to find solutions to health disparities; and identify gaps in health disparities research. View the webcast  at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=3091

The speaker’s at today’s NIH Summit on the Science of Health Disparities were all dynamic and knowledgeable. Governor Howard Dean MD, Chairman, Democratic National Committee started off the day with a rousing speech on the future of health care in the US. He was followed by several panelists speaking on the intersection of science, policy and practice. The lunch keynote speaker, Elijah Cummings, United States Congress, Washington, DC capped off the morning with a powerful and inspiring talk that had audience members visibly moved. Moving into the afternoon breakout sessions was more of the same - presentations and sharing of knowledge and action around overcoming health disparities. Below are some resources I learned about while at the Summit

Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health
http://www.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=15&codcch=741
Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Nonserial Publication
World Health Organization
The Final Report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health sets out key areas of daily living conditions and of the underlying structural drivers that influence them in which action is needed. It provides analysis of social determinants of health and concrete examples of types of action that have proven effective in improving health and health equity in countries at all levels of socioeconomic development.

The Community Health Promotion Handbook: Action Guides to Improve Community Health
http://www.cdc.gov/steps/actionguides/
Partnership for Prevention® and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have developed The Community Health Promotion Handbook: Action Guides to Improve Community Health, an evidence-based tool that bridges the gap between research and practice. Five selected recommendations from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services’ The Guide to Community Preventive Services: What Works to Promote Health? have been translated into action guides that provide public health practitioners and others interested in health promotion with the necessary “how to” guidance to implement effective community-level strategies.

Moving Upstream: How Interventions That. Address the Social Determinants of Health Can. Improve Health and Reduce Disparities
http://www.nursingcenter.com/pdf.asp?AID=819665 (pdf)
David R. Williams, Manuela V. Costa, Adebola O. Odunlami, and Selina A. Mohammed
J Public Health Management Practice, 2008, November(Suppl), S8–S17
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