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March 25th, 2010
Health Literacy Center Grows Partnership with Harvard Expert
December 8th, 2009
Dr. Rudd is the first visiting senior scholar to the Health Literacy Center, which was established in 2007. The workshop is the start of a mentoring partnership between the two, and future visits will be open to the School and community.
Invited students, faculty and community health directors discussed with Dr. Rudd methods for identifying and removing literacy-related barriers in health systems.
Among her accomplishments, Dr. Rudd is the 2009 recipient of the Pfizer Health Literacy in Advancing Safety Award. Dr. Rudd published her health-literacy checklist in her guidebook, The Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers, co-authored by Jennie E. Anderson. She is a senior lecturer for Society, Human Development and Health at Harvard and serves as the department’s director of educational programs. She serves as researcher and principal investigator for the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy and has also written several reports that have helped shape the agenda in health literacy research and practice. Read more about Dr. Rudd at the UMD-College Park SPH Web site; the Literacy Center site; and the Harvard site. You can also check out her own reference page.
The Herschel S. Horowitz Health Literacy Center is the first academic-based center of its kind, and it was established at the School of Public Health to address the effects of poor health literacy on health outcomes. The Center was established with a generous gift from Dr. Alice Horowitz and her family, who is the senior advisor to the dean on health literacy.
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SPH Launches UMD-Prevention Research Center
December 7th, 2009
The UMD-Prevention Research Center of the School of Public Health announced its launch in conjunction with campus events recognizing World AIDS Day. It was a perfect setting for the launch, as the Center’s initial focus will be on HIV/STD prevention in the area.
The UMD-PRC is one of only 35 centers of its kind, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It aims to unite community members, academic researchers, and public health agencies to identify health disparities and develop innovative ways to promote health and prevent disease. Our PRC is unique, in that it will focus on a specific geographical area: UMD-PRC is dedicated to shrinking the health disparity gap of the national capital border in Prince George’s County.
The announcement was made at the “Universal Access and Human Rights” World AIDS Day event, co-sponsored by UMD-PRC and the campus’s Nyumburu Cultural Center.
The Center has already been collaborating with the Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition, a regional STD/HIV prevention enterprise, to organize counseling and testing events in Prince George’s County, and it has been cataloging current and potential partners that may provide resources for addressing STD/HIV in Prince George’s County.
UMD-PRC and its partners are preparing to tackle the challenges ahead. Among the Prince George’s County statistics, 5,578 persons living with HIV and AIDS as of June 30, 2008, and the 2007 estimate of reported syphilis cases in the county is 11.2 per 100,000.
Local officials spoke at the event, and recognized the great potential of building a partnership with UMD-PRC…
Mayor Eugene Grant, the City of Seat Pleasant: “We believe that having a partnership with an institution like the University of Maryland, one of the greatest institutions here in the United States, and for that matter, in the world, is where we have an incubation of thought.”
Dr. Donald Shell, health officer of Prince George’s County: “I think it’s a wonderful partnership with the School of Public Health here on campus for the Prince George’s County Health Department, and I think only great things will continue to happen.”
Dr. Yvette Butler, founder of GapBuster Learning Center, Inc., a nonprofit educational program dedicated to closing the performance gap of students: “We know that with us together, we can conquer HIV.”
Learn more about the UMD-PRC; CDC Prevention Research Center program; Prince George’s County Health Department; Nyumburu Cultural Center; GapBusters; and Sexually Transmitted Infections Community Coalition.
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