# National Public Health Coordination Office NER

> **NIH NIH UG4** · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · 2020 · $397,248

## Abstract

NN/LM Public Health Coordination Office (NPHCO) 
Abstract 
Public Health Departments typically fall outside the service area of institutions that offer access 
to information. Public health departments do not have the funds to accommodate full-text 
desktop access to evidence-based public health information and the workforce does not have 
access to educational opportunities to enhance information retrieval or information 
management. As the founder of the PHIA project on which the NPHCO is based, coupled with 
its long history of conducting research on the information needs of public health workers, the 
University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), Lamar Soutter Library, under the 
leadership of Elaine Martin, DA is poised to submit this proposal to serve as the NPHCO. The 
office will be designed to continue and expand upon the groundwork laid by the PHIA, evaluate 
which evidence-based information resources are needed within state public health departments, 
and provide support for a sustainable cost-effective national model. The UMMS proposal offers 
a unique opportunity for public health agencies and their workforce to utilize evidence-based 
resources and gain understanding of NLM's databases to adopt evidence-based practice into 
their work.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9918986
- **Project number:** 5UG4LM012347-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER
- **Principal Investigator:** ELAINE R MARTIN
- **Activity code:** UG4 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $397,248
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9918986

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9918986, National Public Health Coordination Office NER (5UG4LM012347-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-11 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9918986. Licensed CC0.

---

*[NIH grants dataset](/datasets/nih-grants) · CC0 1.0*