Masterclass Series

 

IHLA Global Health Literacy Summit 2021 is pleased to offer a series of Masterclasses – an opportunity for a health literacy expert “Mentor” to meet with two “Apprentices” to exchange knowledge, ideas and strategies. Apprentices may include students, early or later career practitioners, researchers, policy makers, or others interested in learning from the experience of a health literacy expert. Each Masterclass will be 60-minute and include three selected Apprentices.

 

Description of the Masterclass Opportunity for Apprentices

 

Each Masterclass will highlight the work of one Mentor and two Apprentices. Mentors were selected from a list of health literacy experts. Apprentices will be selected from a pool of applicants.

 

As an applicant you are invited to select a Mentor from a list of committed experts in health literacy with whom you would like to meet (see list of Mentor). You will present your work or a project about which you would like to receive expert advice and ask a focused question to your Mentor to answer. This is a unique opportunity for you to receive feed-back and advise on your work from an expert in the field doing similar work.

 

Masterclasses will be conducted virtually and are tentatively scheduled for 4 October 2021 from 18:00 – 19:00 Taiwan Time, 6:00 – 7:00 US Eastern Standard Time, 12:00 – 13:00 Central European Time.

 

Masterclass Mentor	Title and Organization	MasterClass Title and Description
Tuyen V. Duong, RN, MNSc, PhD	Assistant Professor, Taipei Medical University	Red-Amber-Green Health Literacy Research Dr. Duong will share tips on how to conduct long-term research, short-term research, and rapid research; how to transform and develop the research field; how to mobilize the resources to maximize the effectiveness of health literacy. Apprentices pursuing health literacy research will present their work.
Stan Hudson, MA, CDFT	Director, Wisconsin Health Literacy	Health Literacy Curriculum Development This class will provide guidance on developing health literacy curriculum. If you plan on developing training curriculum for health and public health professionals or more general health literacy education for individuals or communities, this session can provide guidance and help you brainstorm how to organize and deliver health literacy education.
Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, MEd	Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine	Health Literacy for Transformational Change This master class is for educators. Kurtz-Rossi will share her expertise as an educator teaching health literacy to public health professionals, medical students, and in the community. Apprentices will share their educational research and interventions. Discussion will include teaching in a variety of contexts and evaluation for program improvement.
Caroline Antonia Mubaira, PhD	Deputy Team Leader, Crown Agents Zimbabwe	E-health in Maternal and Child Health Care in Covid-19 times Dr. Muabaira will share how her experience on how using e-health strategies can help provide maternal and child health literacy in rural communities in difficult times such as Covid-19 phase. Apprentices will share their research and practice using e-health strategies.
Don Nutbeam, PhD	Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney	Health Literacy as a Social Determines of Health Professor Nutbeam will share his analysis of health literacy as a social determinant. Apprentices will share their health research and practice applying the concept of health literacy as a social determine.
Diane Levin-Zamir, PhD	National Director, Clalit Health Services; Assistant Professor, University of Haifa	Diseases Management and Prevention at a Systems Level Dr. Levin-Zamir is the National Director of the Clalit Health Services. She is responsible for systems level health literacy programs and community-based health literacy intervention. Apprentices will present their systems level programs and interventions.
Aracely Rosales	Chief Content Expert, Multilingual Director, Health Literacy Innovations, LLC & Rosales Communications, LLC	Moving Communication Online to Meet Multilingual Diverse Consumers with Low Health Literacy Developing communication for diverse audiences presents numerous challenges. Traditional methods of communication do not work, and interpreters and translators must be planned ahead of time. The challenges increased when COVID 19 hit. Ms. Rosales will share her experience creating effective health literacy communication for diverse audiences, regardless of the channel of communication used. Apprentices will share their health literacy communication successes and challenges working with diverse audiences.
Kristine Sorensen, PhD	Director, Global Health Literacy Academy	Mobilization of Health Literacy Champions This master class introduces the concept of health literacy championship and the role of health literacy champions in the mobilization of the global health literacy movement. Strategies are shared on how to build the capacity, the network and alliances for champions to influence and make an impact improving health literacy for all.
Tin Tin Su, MBBS, MSc. CHHM, Dr. Med	Professor, Global Public Health at the JC School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University	Health Literacy and Population Health Health Literacy can help address the underlying causes of patients’ health and wellbeing. Health literacy is not an intervention by itself, but rather a pathway to address patient’s needs. Dr. Tin Su will share how to effectively integrate health literacy as part of a community-based program or intervention. Apprentices will share their health literacy programs and interventions.

 

Requirements

 

Apprentices must register to attend the IHLA Global Health Literacy Summit and attend their Masterclass for one hour. Selected Apprentices will give a brief oral presentation of their work and ask a specific question to their Mentor (10 minutes). Apprentices will also have the opportunity to engage in an open discussion with their Mentor and other participants. The following is the proposed agenda for all Masterclasses:

 

Proposed Agenda Masterclass, 1-hour Session
5 min	Welcome & Introduction
10 min	Apprentice #1 presentation & question
10 min	Mentor comments
10 min	Apprentice #2 presentation & question
10 min	Mentor comments
10 min	Open discussion facilitated by Mentor
5 min	Mentor closing remarks

 

Selection of Masters

 

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  Tuyen Van Duong

  Assistant Professor, Taipei Medical University (Taiwan)

  Tuyen Van Duong

  Assistant Professor, Taipei Medical University (Taiwan)

   

  Dr. Duong has run a number of research projects in Asian countries and published 36 original research articles (19 health literacy related) on twenty three prestigious journals. He has been serving as a Guest Editor of International Journals and he has presented in numerous national and international conferences. Currently, he is a PI of a COVID-19 and related research projects in Vietnam and is running a digital health literacy in university student survey in Taiwan. Dr. Duong has received 14 honorable academic awards from national and international organizations.

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  Stan Hudson

  Director, Wisconsin Health Literacy (United States)

  Stan Hudson

  Director, Wisconsin Health Literacy (United States)

   

  Stan Hudson is a health literacy expert and health policy analyst with almost 25 years of experience in health services research and over 15 years of experience in health literacy with a focus on curriculum development. He earned an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Missouri with a focus on race, class, and gender inequalities and earned B.A.s in History, Political Science, and Sociology from Columbia College. Over the last two decades he has led the development and implementation of health literacy and health justice education programs and curricula for health professionals in training and in practice.

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  Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi

  Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine (United States)

  Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi

  Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine (United States)

   

  Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health & Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. Director, Health Literacy Leadership Institute. Focus on health professions teaching and training. Sample publication: Developing fact sheets to communication the risks of traffic pollution to urban Puerto Rican adults. Environmental Justice, 2018.

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  Caroline Mubaira

  Deputy Team Leader, Crown Agents Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)

  Caroline Mubaira

  Deputy Team Leader, Crown Agents Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)

   

  Caroline Antonia Mubaira is a Public Health Specialist working in Zimbabwe in the area of Health Literacy. Caroline holds a Master’s in Public, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Diploma in Health and Adult Education, General Nursing and Midwife qualifications. Caroline has a lot of significant experiences working with health workers and communities on community led initiatives to ensure quality health services that are people centred. The initiatives enabled community engagement, with policy makers. Caroline Mubaira is the Deputy Team Leader of the Results-based financing programme in health (RBF) being implemented in 42 rural districts of Zimbabwe where m-Health is being implemented by both community members and health workers to improve health services at different levels. Caroline worked for Community Working Group on Health and coined the TENDAI (Tracking Essential National Medicines and Diagnostics Access Initiative) project, an intervention designed to ease the burden of the people by monitoring the situation of medicines at community level and disseminating information on accessing essential medicines, provider pharmaceutical marketplace information through a regional info hub and contribute to improving access to medicines in the Southern African Development Community. The Tendai Project was implemented in 13 countries. Caroline is also the chairperson of AFROCAB, a network for community HIV treatment advocates across Anglophone African countries.

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  Don Nutbeam

  Professor of Public HealthProfessor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney (Australia)

  Don Nutbeam

  Professor of Public HealthProfessor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney (Australia)

   

  Biography: Don Nutbeam’s career has spanned senior leadership positions in universities, government, health services and international organisations including WHO and the World Bank. He is a public health scientist with research interests in the social and behavioural determinants of health, and in the development and evaluation of public health interventions. His current research focusses on the development and testing of interventions to improve health literacy in different populations.

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  Diane Levin-Zamir

  National Director, Clalit Health Services; Assistant Professor, University of Haifa, (Israel)

  Diane Levin-Zamir

  National Director, Clalit Health Services; Assistant Professor, University of Haifa, (Israel)

   

  Professor Diane Levin-Zamir is the National Director of the Department of Health Promotion of Clalit, Israel's largest non-profit healthcare organization. She is Professor at the University of Haifa School of Public Health in Israel and teaches the required courses in the health promotion track of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine’s School of Public Health. She is one of the founders and leaders of the Global Working Group on Health Literacy of the International Union Health Promotion and Education. She chairs the National Council of Health Promotion of the Israel Ministry of Health and was one of the founders of the Israel Health Promoters and Health Educators Association. She specializes in action research and policy development in health promotion in community primary care, children and adolescents, people with chronic conditions, hospital and media settings, media/digital health literacy, measuring population health literacy, and cultural appropriateness for health on the policy, research and practice levels. Diane was the principal investigator for the National Survey on Health Literacy in Israel. She is a scientific advisor for the Asian Health Literacy Association, as well as for the Health Literacy for Children and Adolescents project in Germany. She serves on the board of the International Health Literacy Association. Diane has extensively published articles and book chapters on numerous aspects of health literacy and health promotion.

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  Aracely Rosales

  Multilingual Director, Health Literacy Innovations (United States)

  Aracely Rosales

  Multilingual Director, Health Literacy Innovations (United States)

   

  Ms. Rosales, a national leader in multi-cultural health literacy, since early nineties. She creates and has developed hundreds of evidenced based health literacy patient bilingual publications, multimedia communication initiatives, programs, TV, radio, theater and online messages. She is also the author of “The Plain Language and Health Literacy Resources Guide (Volumes 1 & 2), and co-author of the Latinos Diabetes Recommendations’ Report to CDC and the Health Literacy Advisor software and web application.

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  Kristine Sørensen

  Director, Global Health Literacy Academy (Denmark)

  Kristine Sørensen

  Director, Global Health Literacy Academy (Denmark)

   

  As a thought leader I am committed to advance the global scale and scope of health literacy. Through research, capacity building and networking I develop and expand the field of health literacy concerning policy and practice. My educational background is in medicine, public health and global health diplomacy. I have among others acted as expert advisor for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Health Organization, the European Centre of Disease Control, Council of Europe and McKinsey and received the European Health Award 2012 for the societal impact of the European Health Literacy study and the International Health Literacy Award 2017 for setting up the International Health Literacy Association. I am engaged in research, education, consultation, advocacy and public speaking.

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  Tin Tin Su

  Professor, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University (Malaysia)

  Tin Tin Su

  Professor, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University (Malaysia)

   

  Professor, School of Medicine and Health. Public health physician and researcher. Passionate in improving population health via community health development approach, health system research, health literacy, and evidence-based policy. Sample publication: Does the low-income urban population practice health dietary Habits, Int Health, 2018.

 

* The sequence of names was alphabetical by last name.

 

Selection of Apprentices

 

Apprentices will be selected based on their application, topic of interest or project, and their commitment to attending the confirmed schedule Masterclass at the summit. The deadline for submissions is 24 September 2021. Selection of Apprentices will take place by a subcommittee of the GHLS Program Committee, in consultation with the Mentors. Two Apprentices will be selected for each Masterclass, one additional Apprentice will also be selected and be ready in case of a cancelation. Applicants may apply for only one Masterclass. Selected Apprentices will be notified by 30 September 2021.

 

We invite interested Apprentices to complete the application form before 24 September 2021.

 

Apprentice Application Form

 

Invited Audience

 

There will be limited opportunity to sign up for a Masterclass as an active observer. Active observers are invited audience members who will engage in discussion with the Mentor and Apprentices at the conclusion of the Masterclass.