Health Literacy: Making an Impact in Unexpected Ways (HLOL #277)

Associate Professor Carissa Bonner is a behavioral scientist and Deputy Director of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab at the University of Sydney. She is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of Health Literacy and Communication Open. Carissa leads a national partnership on heart health literacy and is a scientific advisor to the World Health Organization and International Patient Decision Aids Standards on health risk communication. Associate Professor Danielle Muscat is an Executive Member and Applied Translational Research Lead of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, Advisor on Health Literacy to the World Health Organization, and co-Editor-in-Chief of Health Literacy and Communication Open. Danielle’s research focuses on the development and evaluation of interventions to improve health literacy at individual, community and systems levels. Carissa Bonner and Danielle Muscat talk with Helen Osborne about: When and how you realized that health literacy really mattered. Examples of projects that started small and grew into national and international efforts. These include Australia’s National Health Literacy Framework and the journal, Health Literacy & Communication Open. Suggestions for advocates everywhere who want to make an impact when it comes to health literacy. More ways to learn: Health Literacy and Communication Open, an open access journal Australia’s National Health Literacy Framework National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy, HLOL podcast interview with Cynthia Baur, Ph.D. Health Literacy from A to Z: Practical Ways to Communicate Your Health Message, Third Edition, by Helen Osborne. The chapter “Organizations: Health Literacy Across Programs, Companies, Communities, and Countries,” is especially relevant to this episode. The post Health Literacy: Making an Impact in Unexpected Ways (HLOL #277) appeared first on Health Literacy Out Loud Podcast.