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Health Literacy -- The Hidden Public Health Problem
When:
April 30, 2014, 5:30-8:30 pm
Where:
CUNY School of Public Health, 2180 Third Avenue, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Registration and Networking: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Program: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Cost: $10 Members / $15 Non-Members
Introductions/Moderator:
- Rita Baron-Faust, MPH, CHES,
"The Power of Words"
- Award-winning medical journalist, author and health educator
- Author of
The Autoimmune Connection: Essential Information for Women on Diagnosis, Treatment and Getting on with Your Life (McGraw-Hill)
Speakers:
- Joy Simon Palmer, MeD: "What is Health Literacy?"
- Joy Simon Palmer is an independent Health Literacy Consultant and an Adjunct Professor at the NYU College of Nursing, teaching
Consumer and Interactive Healthcare in the Masters in Nursing Informatics program. During her more than six years as Manager of Patient and Family Education at the NYU Langone Medical Center, she oversaw the production and acquisition of online patient resources
and worked with department heads and clinicians to improve patient education materials and institutional documents to meet health literacy standards. She also headed the NYULMC Health Literacy and Patient and Family Education Councils, organizing professional
and patient events, including the first institution-wide "Patient and Family Education Week." She holds a Masters degree in Instructional Technology.
- Anthony Tassi, MIA:
"Health Literacy as a Public Health Issue"
- Anthony Tassi is the Executive Director of Literacy Partners, a non-profit organization providing adult literacy services for
more than 1,800 adults from across New York City and from around the world. He previously served as the founding Executive Director of the Mayor's Office of Adult Education and was a health policy advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from 2000 to 2006. Tassi
drafted the Mayoral Order requiring city agencies to use plain language in essential public communications in order to make government services more accessible to adults with limited literacy skills and designed literacy programs for several city initiatives.
He holds a Master's degree in Economic and Political Development from the Columbia University School of International Public Affairs.
- Lyla M. Hernandez, MPH, "Improving Health Literacy on a National Scale."
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Lyla M. Hernandez is Director of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Health Literacy, has been a Senior Program Officer with the IOM for the past 17 years. During that time she has
been study director for projects related to public health, public health surveillance, health indicators, genomics, complementary and alternative medicine, and Gulf War veterans' health. Hernandez was awarded the 2006 Institute of Medicine Research Cecil Award
for significant contributions to IOM reports of exceptional quality and influence. Those reports include: Training Physicians for Public Health Careers, State of the USA Health Indicators, leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2020, A Nationwide Framework
for and An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Value of Community-Based Prevention.
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