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Feb 27, 2020

Check out the latest news about the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy and Health Literacy Maryland!


Upcoming Events



UMD Giving Day
Online
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Support our outreach and education efforts! Your financial support helps improve health literacy across the state and nation. For example, our annual conference and our undergraduate health literacy class are possible because of generous support. 
 
Donate here on March 4!
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FREE Training: Building Health Literate Care Through Meaningful Patient Engagement
Online Webinar
Thursday, March 26, 12:00-1:00pm EST


CHES credits available! This webinar from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement will cover the importance of directly engaging patients in your health literacy work. Register here.

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 Health Literacy in Action Conference: College Park, MD
 Prince George's County
Sunday, Oct 18 - Tuesday, Oct 20


Save the date for this year's Health Literacy in Action Conference, where we'll combine health literacy research and practice. Sign up to receive update emails here.


Health Literacy Tool Spotlight:
Clear and Simple

Clear & Simple outlines a process for developing communications materials for people with limited-literacy skills.

The first step? Define your target audience.

Identifying your target audience by characteristics like age, sex, geographic location, or health-related attitudes and behaviors (to name a few!) is important because these characteristics can influence each subsequent step in the materials development process.

Stay tuned! In the coming weeks, we'll go through the remaining steps in the Clear and Simple process. 


For more tools, check out our website!

Horowitz Center Activities


Last week, we presented at the Public Health Symposium on Coronavirus about "Effective Risk Communication as the Antidote to Fear, Uncertainty and Misinformation." If you missed it or want to watch again, you can watch the recording here.
Thanks for all you do to advance health literacy in Maryland and beyond! 
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