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WORKGROUP UPDATE: Health Equity and Access to Learning (HEAL)

February 29, 2024

Terrie Wheeler, Library Director

Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University

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Workgroup Leadership

Terrie Wheeler, Weil Cornell Medical College

Joshua Rubin, University of Michigan

Emeritus: Jerry Perry, University of Arizona

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Our Shared Vision for HEAL

Our HEAL name expresses our goals of promoting health equity as a central MCBK value, and ensuring access to learning about MCBK. We work collectively to advance our shared core value that every decision affecting the health of individuals and populations should be informed by the best available knowledge made widely accessible.

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Select Achievements

  • Mobilization: “Call to Action” article targeting Library/Info Science/Health Informatics Communities to engage in MCBK, published in the Journal of the Medical Library Association, April, 2024
  • Equity: Engaged in community building with NHS HEE librarians around health equity issues
  • Equity: Planning a Health Equity special issue of Learning Health Systems Journal in 2025

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Anchored in Our MCBK Manifesto

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Some Drivers of HEAL

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Organizational Changes

  • Workgroup Name Change! From S&I to Health Equity and Access to Learning (HEAL) effective January, 2024. Same areas of focus, clearer name
  • Workgroup leadership transitions

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What’s Next?

  • Publish “Call to Action” in JMLA (April, 2024)
  • Continue collaboration with NHS HEE librarians
  • Survey stakeholder communities to identify shared future plans
  • Introduce MCBK to various Medical Library Association caucuses
  • Planning to co-edit the upcoming Health Equity special issue of Learning Health Systems

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THANKS

Questions? Reach out to Terrie @ �tew2004@med.cornell.edu or Josh at rubinjc@umich.edu

Or write to MCBK-info@umich.edu

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