Lisa Sedlar, MLIS, MT (ASCP), is a librarian in the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). She works on the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce website, http://PHPartners.org. She coordinates the Healthy People 2020 Structured Evidence Queries (SEQs). The SEQs (http://phpartners.org/hp2020/index.html) are PubMed searches developed by librarians with subject expertise to assist the public health workforce in finding peer-reviewed information to address the Healthy People 2020 objectives. She also works with librarians to address any public health gaps in the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), which influences the index terms applied to articles indexed for Medline within PubMed. Previous experience was working in a clinical laboratory, assisting an oncologist. She has a Masters of Library and Information Science from Kent State University and a B.S. in Clinical Laboratory Science from Kent State University.
National Information Center for Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR), National Library of Medicine
