How to Promote Health Literacy as a State Priority: Examples from Maryland and Delaware

Description: This panel showcased how the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy in Maryland and the Health Literacy Council of Delaware are building and implementing statewide health literacy programs. Both groups are using a multilevel approach - from policy change to professional development and training for working professionals - to create "health literate state" models.

Speakers:

Cynthia Baur

Endowed Chair and Director, Horowitz Center for Health Literacy

Greg O’Neill MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, NPD-BC, NEA-BC

Director, Patient & Family Health Education