The International Health Literacy Association's Health Literacy Explorers Group is excited to share their first webinar of the year - Hot Topics in Health Literacy!

Date: Friday May 20th, 2022
Time: 10:30 EST/4:30 PM CET
Description: Hot Topics in Health Literacy Webinar is a forum to discuss issues currently affecting public health and health literacy practice. Guest speakers from around the world will present the latest research and share insights on trending topics.

Please register below for a copy of the zoom link.

Speakers:

Presenter 1: Tanya Fischer (she/her)
Title: The Role of Libraries in Health Literacy
Bio: Tanya is the chair of the Pennsylvania Library Association’s PA Forward® Literacies Team, a member of Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 1 Senate, and a member of the International Health Literacy Association (IHLA).  Tanya holds master’s degrees in Educational Leadership and Library and Information Science. She is an infopreneur and an outside-the-box thinker with experience in public, academic, and medical libraries. Currently, Tanya is a medical writer for National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®). She spends her days writing about cancer - helping those with cancer understand their disease, prepare for testing and treatment, and engage in shared decision-making. All of NCCN’s products are free (NCCN.org). Tanya can be reached at fischer@nccn.org or tanyafischer8@gmail.com
 
Presenter 2: Natalie Crljenica M.Ed., B.A.
Title: Low Health Literacy, Mis- and Dis-Information, and the spread of COVID-19
Bio: Natalie has been an adult educator for over 7 years facilitating the growth of English communication skills in English language learners from all over the world. Recently, a couple of family members were diagnosed with cancer, and Natalie and her family had to navigate a brand a new world of living with, treating, and caring for those who had cancer. Through this experience, Natalie and her family had to learn many new medical terms and language, which proved to be challenging under the stressful circumstances; this prompted her to alter her career path. She has been discovering how she can help improve health communication through plain language writing and editing, and how she can contribute to improving organizational and personal health literacy.

Presenter 3: Laura Schamberger
Title: Planet & Health Literacy
Bio: With her background in physiotherapy and a master’s degree in International Health and Social Management at MCI Innsbruck, that will soon be completed, Laura became involved with the topics of prevention and health promotion early on. Through her love for nature and outdoors, she was keen to combine her passions and dive deeper into the subject area of planet and health during her studies. As an intern at the Global Health Literacy Academy, Laura got the opportunity to explore the area of Planetary Health Literacy by conducting a scoping review. Based on this, she is currently writing her master thesis on this topic. The aim is to define and conceptualize Planetary Health Literacy and to enable the dissemination of this concept in the long run, in order to help safeguarding the well-being of our planet and its living creatures.

Affiliations: MCI (Management Center Innsbruck) & GHLA (Global Health Literacy Academy)