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Budget Ordinance Amendment No. 19BCC000004 - Recognize Durham County Library Grant Revenue: "National Institutes of Health (NIH) - All of Us Durham"
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Date Of BOCC Meeting: August 6, 2018
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The Board is requested to recognize $64,560 in grant revenue from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Durham County Library to implement the All of Us Durham project in Fiscal Year 2019.
Durham County Library (DCL) will collaborate with the Durham County Public Health Department and Duke University Medical Center Library to engage the Durham community by raising awareness of the All of Us Research Program for populations underrepresented in biomedical research. By leveraging the partnerships with Public Health and Duke University Medical Center Library, DCL will utilize the All of Us Durham grant funds to continue and expand the Public Health Department's current chronic disease series, fund a program coordinator position to provide and coordinate with specialists to offer programs, coordinate training for library staff, and increase knowledge and the accessibility of authoritative health information resources.
The national All of Us Research Program is an effort to collect health data to advance the Precision Medicine Initiative. The goal is to recruit at least one million participants to expand and diversify the data pool so researchers can better understand the role genetics and environment have on individuals' health and response to treatment. DCL will not play a role in actively recruiting participants or the data collection.
This grant is made possible by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012340 with the University of Maryland, Health Sciences and Human Services Library.
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