Co-sponsored by the Tufts Center for Global Health http://publichealth.tufts.edu/cgph and the Health Literacy Leadership Institute http://go.tufts.edu/summerinstitute, the Global Health Literacy Forum is designed for researchers and practitioners interested in sharing ideas for future direction in global health literacy and communication. Clear Language Group Member Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi is Director of the Health Literacy Leadership Institute at Tufts.
Clear Language Group Member Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi presents workshop on Heath Literacy and Cultural Competency Tools and Techniques read at 5th Annual Maine Minority Health Conference for Advancing Health Equity in Maine Through Community Health Workers. Read the twitter feed @kurtzRossi #mechw.
Clear Language Group Member Lorena Sprager presents poster session at Familias en Acción’s Latino Health Equity Conference called Achieving Cultural Competency and Health Literacy through Developing Original Materials for and with Spanish Speaking Mexican Immigrants. http://www.familiasenaccion.org/latino-health-equity-conference/agenda-and-workshops.html
CLG sponsored the Center for Plain Language ClearMark Awards for the third consecutive year. The Awards Ceremony took place at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Tuesday, May 12, 2015. The ClearMark Awards honor the best in plain language websites and print materials. For the first time, Spanish-language materials were included in the awards. Wendy Mettger attended the ClearMark Awards representing CLG.
Clear Language Group Members Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi and Lorena Sprager present at the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit http://wisconsinliteracy.org/health-literacy/training-conferences/health-literacy-summit.html. Sabrina presents Pre-Summit Session on Writing and Designing Effective Communication http://wisconsinliteracy.org/health-literacy/training-conferences/pre-summit-sessions.html. Lorena presents poster session, Achieving Cultural Competency and Health Literacy through Developing Original Materials for and with Spanish Speaking Mexican Immigrants.
Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, member of the Clear Language Group, presents Pediatric Grand Rounds at Tufts Medical Center https://www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/ to kick off quality improvement project Harnessing Efforts to Address Health Literacy and Enhance Relationships and Services (HEALERS) at the Floating Hospital for Children.
Wendy Mettger, in collaboration with Joanne Gallivan and Catherine Brown, presented “Using Plain Language to Make Diabetes Messages Clear and Simple: The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) as a Case Study.” The diabetes educators were actively engaged in the presentation and later reported their satisfaction at having engaging and easy to read and understand materials from NDEP.”
Lorena Sprager conducted a workshop called Advocating for Latino Patients: an Integrated and Grassroots Approach on March 28. She shared tools to make an institutional commitment to Latino patient advocacy as well as strategies to bring Latino community members to the table to advocate for themselves. In addition, Lorena shared a closing plenary on health literacy, focusing on language access in the health care setting.
Lorena Sprager co-presented a workshop called Community Health Worker (CHW) Grassroots Efforts: Expanding Workforce Borders on February 26. Presenters shared about the history and expanding roles of CHWs in the Oregon region of the Mid Columbia Gorge. They also had participants explore possible ways to expand CHW roles in their own community reality. Participants gave the session high scores.
June 13, 2014, Tufts University School of Medicine
Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, Course Director, is pleased to announce that Wilma Alvarado-Little, will be Co-facilitating the Health Literacy & Cultural Competency Forum https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-health-literacy-leadership-institute-fellows-forum-tickets-10294726805. For over 25 years, Wilma Alvarado-Little has been a strong voice advocating for linguistically and culturally appropriate health services. She is a healthcare interpreter and trainer who is a member of the National Project Advisory Committee for the Review of the CLAS Standards and the Institute of Medicine Health Literacy Roundtable. Participants in the Forum will explore the value added when integrating evidence-based health literacy and cultural competency interventions and the need for a common agenda.
Taking place on the last day of the Health Literacy Leadership Institute http://go.tufts.edu/summerinstitute, the Forum is dedicated to a current topic of interest. The one-day forum is open to the wider health literacy community, not just participants in the Leadership Institute. This year, our topic for discussion is Health Literacy & Cultural Competency – the value added when integrating evidence-based health literacy and cultural competency interventions for improve health communication. For more information and to register go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-health-literacy-leadership-institute-fellows-forum-tickets-10294726805 or contact CLG member Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi directly at sabrina@kurtz-rossi.com.
In addition to being a health literacy practitioner, Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi is an Adjunct Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. Her appointment is in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine in the Health Communication Program. This fall 2013 she is teaching HCOM547 Adult Learning Theory for Public Health Practice. She is trying a new technology in teaching experiment this semester. It’s a twitter chat activity to exchange ideas between classes. If interested, follow the discussion on twitter @kurtzrossi #HCOM547.