Katie Leath is a passionate health communicator with nearly a decade of experience in making health information easy to read, understand, and use. She leads the team of health literacy and plain language experts at the UAMS Center for Health Literacy. She lends her health communication expertise to help create and edit health-related materials for patients and consumers at UAMS and beyond.
Before joining the UAMS Center for Health Literacy, Katie worked in various public health roles including administration, communications, and research and evaluation.
Katie earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing with a minor in graphic design from the University of Central Arkansas. She graduated with honors from UAMS with a master of public health degree and from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a master’s degree in applied communication studies.
In her spare time, Katie enjoys working in her garden and spending time with her family and friends at the lake.