Supporting Health Equity Initiatives: Creating an Interactive eResource to Support Health Disparities Competency

In 2021, our library purchased a collection of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) eBooks. Instead of folding them into our collection, we built a resource that highlights those eBooks alongside newly created tutorials. These tutorials include topics such as searching nuanced literature, defining vulnerable populations, and researching marginalized peoples. In addition, we developed three interactive modules embedded within the resource to teach users how to be more inclusive searchers. The modules highlight: (1) Appalachian Populations, (2) LGBTQIA+ Populations, and (3) Racial and Ethnic Minorities. These modules have specific learning objectives that help users better understand the problems associated with searching population-based literature and provide them tools to become better more inclusive searchers. In this presentation the authors will discuss the resource itself, how we conducted sensitivity reading, future assessment & expansion goals, and transforming these resources into open access materials.

Link to guide: https://libguides.uky.edu/healthdisparities