2019 Conference Resources

2019 Health Literacy Interprofessional Conference

March 8, 2019
2019 Conference Photo
2019 Conference Photo
2019 Conference Photo


Workshop Session I: Health Literacy and Plain Language

Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi MEd
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Health Literacy Leadership Institute


Workshop Session II: Assessing Written Materials for Reading Ease/ Actionability

Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi MEd
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Health Literacy Leadership Institute

Keynote Address: Addressing Health Literacy
Russell L. Rothman, MD, MPP
Professor, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, & Health Policy; Vice President for Population Health Research Vanderbilt University

Beyond the Knife: Health Literacy and Why It Matters
Daniel Chu, MD
Assistant Professor, UAB School of Medicine

Workshop Session III: Practice Speaking and Writing in Plain Language
Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, MEd
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Health Literacy Leadership Institute

Workshop Session IV: Using Plain Language in Different Contexts
Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, MEd
Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Health Literacy Leadership Institute