Health Information Partners: Connect for Health!

Health Information Partners (HIPS) brings reliable information to our communities to promote health literacy and health advocacy. We teach community members how to find and use online health information. Our goal is to lessen health information gaps that contribute to health inequalities.

What is Health Information Partners?

Health Information Partners is a coalition of public health, medical, library, university, community, and adult education groups. This unique team of partners brings knowledge from many fields to promote health.

What do we do?

We teach hands-on classes and coach people at outreach visits around the city. We teach people to advocate for the health of their families and communities.

People gain valuable technology skills while learning about HIV, diabetes, nutrition, health inequalities, and prevention. They can also prepare for jobs by learning new technology, searching for resources, and evaluating online information. Workshop participants receive a National Library of Medicine certificate after successful completion of the two-hour training, which can build their resume.

Health Information Partners reaches people at local health centers, adult education centers, libraries, and on a state of the art mobile technology unit, the Trans.form.er.

In our first six months, Health Information Partners served over 1200 Washington metropolitan area residents at over 20 locations in the Washington metropolitan region. We serve the District of Columbia Maryland, and Virginia.

Health Information Partners welcomes new members. If you would like to become an information coach, host a health talk, attend a class, or come to a meeting, contact us.

Health Information Partners is funded by the National Library of Medicine.

For more information, contact Karyn L. Pomerantz at 202.416-0408 or kpomeran@gwu.edu. See our web site at http://connectforhealth.gwu.edu for links to our partners and a schedule of our trainings.

Current members:

Children’s Health Center SE,: www.dcchildrens.com
La Clinica del Pueblo,: www.lcdp.org
DC Area Health Education Center (AHEC),: dcahec.gwumc.edu
DC Public Library,: www.dclibrary.org
Family & Medical Counseling Service, Inc.,: www.fmcsinc.org
Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, GWU,: www.gwumc.edu/library
The HSC Health Care System: www.hscpediatriccenter.org; www.hscsn-net.org
Health Action Forum
Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association,: www.mwpha.org
Primary Care Coalition, Montgomery County,: www.primarycarecoalition.org
Partners for Health I, GWU SPHHS,: www.gwumc.edu/partners
Project of Intermediate Advocates – PIA,: www.piaadvocates.org
RIGHT Inc.
Unity Health Care, Inc.,: www.unityhealthcare.org
So Others Might Eat, SOME,: www.some.org
Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Adult,: http://osse.dc.gov