Background: The goal of this program is to increase the visibility of people with disabilities and engage communities that are historically underrepresented in biomedical research. The program highlights awareness of the All of Us Research program for a rural, minority-majority institution. This program was created through interdisciplinary collaboration with a humanities and social sciences librarian, and inspired by an NNLM presentation on the StoryCorps and All of Us Mini Programming Award opportunity. I hope this talk will inspire other health sciences librarians to create interdisciplinary programs, to not fear applying for grants, or hesitate reaching out to NNLM.
Description: A presentation about StoryCorps and All of Us Research by NNLM led to a discussion with my librarian colleague supporting humanities and social sciences. I learned our diversity reader is about disability visibility. We were both inspired and in about 48 hours created and submitted an NNLM mini-grant application in December, 2021; funded January, 2022! Our program will host three meetings in our library to focus on listening, learning, and participating in disability visibility. In Listening we will hear the lived experiences of people with disability, we will learn how to judge health claim, and hope to make StoryCorps recordings through participation. We expect our impact will raise awareness of the All of Us program, educate on judging health claims, and raise awareness of trusted health information from MedlinePlus. The outcome will increase health literacy in our diverse community.
Conclusion: This program was awarded mini-grant funding from NNLM. The planned activities will take place on March 30th, April 6th, and April 13th. I will provide conclusions and a summary of our events at this presentation.