NLM-Funded Scholarly Work on Nutrition, Health Disparities Wins International Award
An academic work funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13) was awarded the 2024 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award by the Urban Affairs Association. Dr. Naa Oyo A. Kwate was presented with the award for her book, White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation, today at the International Conference on Urban Affairs in New York City. The book provides a detailed history of race and the food environment and its impact on nutrition and health disparities.
The NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health supports the development of monographs and books by health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers, and health science historians. Grants are awarded for major critical reviews, state-of-the-art summaries, historical studies, and other useful organizations of knowledge in clinical medicine, public health, biomedical research, and informatics/information sciences.
Over the last decade, NLM has awarded more than 40 G13 grants that span a wide range of topics and mediums. Past funded works have covered areas such as the state of the United States health care system, the history of epidemics and vaccination, genomic and precision medicine, prescription drug misuse, food environment transformation, tobacco culture, chronic disease history, innovation and evolution of surgery, and international disability politics.
NLM’s G13 grant program continues to foster collaborations with the research community and encourages the development of high-quality scholarly works that can benefit the health care, biomedical research, and health science history communities. NLM solicits new applications for the G13 program through a notice of funding opportunity.
Read this Musing from the Mezzanine blog post to learn more about work funded by NLM’s G13 grant program.