Extramural Programs and the HealthMap Vaccine Finder
Courtesy vaccinefinder.org
The HealthMap Vaccine Finder grew out of the research project led by John S. Brownstein, PhD to help people locate vaccine providers in their communities. In 2010, Dr. Brownstein PhD received a grant from the NLM Extramural Programs to further his research into public health observation and social media. In addition, the National Institutes of Health nominated his research and he received the prestigious PECASE award.
In a unique role for a medical library, the National Library of Medicine’s Extramural Programs Division provides grants for research projects and graduate training in biomedical informatics and data sciences. By helping to develop computational methods for describing, linking, visualizing, analyzing and presenting health data, NLM’s grants help bring biomedical research and its results into real-world settings of clinicians, patients, researchers and consumers.
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