Your audience needs to be able to understand and use your health information, whether they read it on a fact sheet or hear it at the doctor’s office. Our health literacy experts train students and professionals to best communicate with people with limited health literacy.
Virtual and in-person trainings are tailored to meet your organization’s needs and cover a range of health literacy topics and tools.
Featured Trainings
Applied Plain Language
Learn how to communicate health information that your audience can read, understand, and use. This interactive, skills-based training teaches students and professionals the fundamentals of writing plain language health materials. Participants will practice key skills and work towards improving their organization’s written materials.
How to Use Teach-Back to Improve Health Education
Learn how to talk to patients, clients, or participants to ensure they understand and can take action to improve their health. This engaging, practice-driven training teaches students and professionals this key tool to solicit patient feedback. Participants will practice the technique and learn how to use it best for their audience.
Simple, Real, and Clear: A Health Numeracy Training
Learn how to help patients, clients, or participants understand and use numbers in health care to improve their health. This course teaches students and professionals strategies to address health numeracy and clearly communicate numbers in health care. Participants will practice key strategies to improve numerical communication.
Other training topics include, but are not limited to:
- Promoting behavior change with communication best practices
- Improving your organization’s health literacy
- Supporting shared decision-making to promote health literacy
- Using university precautions to address health literacy