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Budget Ordinance Amendment No. 19BCC000061 - Recognize Continuation of Durham County Library Grant Revenue: "NIH - All of Us Durham"
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Date of BOCC Meeting: June 10, 2019
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The Board is requested to approve Budget Ordinance Amendment No. 19BCC000061 to recognize $51,650 in grant revenue for Durham County Library to continue implementing All of Us Durham through April 2020.
As part of this project and through this continued funding, Durham County Library will continue to collaborate with the Durham County Public Health Department, Duke University Medical Center Library, and other community partners over the next year. The project will create additional health programs as well as expand on a current series of Self-Management Programs. Duke Medical Center Library staff will serve as a resource for training to increase health information literacy among library staff. The training that staff receive will equip them to better serve the public by providing access to on-line health resources, adding materials to the library collection, and implementing health related programs in the Durham community.
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. Durham County Library 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.
Alignment with Strategic Plan: This aligns with Strategic Goal 5: Accountable, Efficient, and Visionary Government, Customer Engagement and R...
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