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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Moderators, Speakers, and Panelists
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Moderators, Speakers, and Panelists
Pages 91-98
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She was the first manager of the Healthy People health communication objectives and the editor of the U.S. National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy.
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Her publications include New Federal Policy Initiatives to Boost Health Literacy Can Help the Nation Move Beyond the Cycle of Costly "Crisis Care"; Evidence on the Chronic Care Model in the New Millennium; America's Health Literacy: Why We Need Accessible Health Information; Will It Work Here? A Decision Maker's Guide to Adopting Innovations; and Integrating Literacy, Culture, and Language to Improve Quality of Health Care for Diverse Populations.
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In 2010, with three successful statewide health literacy summits completed and additional outside funding, Health Literacy Wisconsin, a division of Wisconsin L iteracy, Inc., was launched under her leadership. The work of the division continues on local, regional, and national levels to deliver educational workshops on health information such as influenza, understanding medicines, health insurance, and health access.
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For the past 3 years, Mr. Espinosa has directed an evaluation related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for HHS's Office of Minority Health, which assessed the effectiveness of outreach and education strategies designed to reach and inform underserved populations throughout the country on the benefits of enrolling in health insurance and accessing preventive health services.
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Since 2001, she has successfully designed a systematic approach to health promotion intervention in Head Start/preschool community settings. She has developed tools and resources for early childhood programs to lead effective health care training programs through engagement and dissemination of knowledge and to better prepare parents to address the health care needs of their children. She has received numerous recognition and awards, including the Health Literacy Award, "Most Innovative Health Education & Promotion Program" from the Institute of Healthcare Advancement (2009) , the Sabra Woolley Memorial Award for Most Highly Rated Abstract, Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (2009)
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Andrew Pleasant, Ph.D., M.S., is the senior advisor on Health Literacy Interventions, Research, and Evaluation at Health Literacy Media (www. healthliteracy.media)
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He is an adjunct faculty member at Brandman University in Irvine, California, where he teaches a health literacy course for the Master of Science in Health Risk and Crisis Communication program. His background includes 20 years as an editor in health care publishing, including peer-reviewed journals in nursing, hospital publications, physician news magazines, and an online health care portal experiment.
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in Mass Communication, specializing in Health Communication, and also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Earnestine Willis, M.D., M.P.H., is a Kellner Professor in Pediatrics, director of the Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children, and director of Health Equity and Urban Clinical Care Partnerships.
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