# MidContinental RML Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH UG4** · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · 2020 · $412,415

## Abstract

Abstract 
Aim 1. Use innovative methods and approaches to maintain, develop and implement a 
regional outreach program addressing Healthy People 2020/health disparities, health 
literacy, patient safety, minority health professionals/students, and underserved 
populations. The NN/LM MCR will work with intermediaries, support partnerships, and 
engage communities to increase access to health information for a variety of audiences. 
Aim 2. Promote awareness of health information resources by developing collaborations 
with organizations serving health professionals, public health workers, and consumers. 
The NN/LM MCR will contribute to a strong culture of health information collaborations 
by supporting the sharing of information and resources, maximizing expertise, and 
minimizing cost. 
Aim 3. Implement a process for announcing, reviewing, and making sub-awards to 
regional Network members to help achieve outreach, education, and technology goals. 
The NN/LM will fund sub-awards to regional Network members to help achieve outreach, 
education, and technology initiatives, and to encourage collaborations. 
Aim 4. Implement a regional education program on electronic health information 
resources, in collaboration with the NTO. The NN/LM MCR training program will improve 
the skills of Network members, unaffiliated health professionals, non-health sciences 
librarians, and personnel in community health centers and community based 
organizations to locate the health information they need. 
Aim 5. Promote NLM and NN/LM programs and services by exhibiting at national, state, 
and local health professional, public health workforce, and librarian meetings. The 
NN/LM MCR will utilize conferences and meetings to instruct, raise awareness of health 
information resources, and garner feedback on NLM programs and services. 
Aim 6. Develop, deliver, and evaluate a technology improvement program for regional 
network members, health professionals and consumers. The NN/LM MCR will assess 
and address technology barriers in order to increase access to health information and to 
support essential technology developments pertinent to library sciences.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9920198
- **Project number:** 5UG4LM012344-05
- **Recipient organization:** UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
- **Principal Investigator:** MELISSA L RETHEFSEN
- **Activity code:** UG4 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $412,415
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-05-01 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9920198

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9920198, MidContinental RML Outreach Core (5UG4LM012344-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9920198. Licensed CC0.

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