Events
April 26, Issaquah, WA: Sandra Smith will speak on Promoting
Health Literacy through Reflective Practice for the Conference of
Nephrology Social Workers.
Continuing education credits from the National Kidney Foundation
May
11, Poplar Bluff, MO: Sandra Smith will lead the Parents As Teachers Health
Literacy Demonstration Project’s closing reflection conference.
Participating parent educators, funder, PAT-National leadership, and the
research team will review and interpret the data, discuss successes,
challenges and lessons learned, and recommend next steps for integrating
health literacy promotion into parent educators’ practice.
May
19-23, Southampton, England: Sandra Smith will participate in a World Wide
Universities Health Literacy Network invitational conference to
recommend a global agenda for health literacy research.
December 10-13, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Sandra Smith will participate participate as a Plenary Lecturer during the 13 RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities.
Past Events
February 9, Seattle:
Sandra Smith discussed “Health Literacy, Beyond Better Information” for the
Children’s Environmental Working Group of the Collaborative on Health
and the Environment-WA.
The Collaborative’s aims to integrate health
literacy into its work to eliminate children’s harmful environmental
exposures during their most critical developmental years.
November 9, 2011, St
Louis: Sandra Smith presented an update on the Parents as Teachers Health Literacy
Demonstration Project at the PAT National Convention
December
8, 2011, Washington, DC: Sandra Smith presented a 90 minute workshop on promoting
health literacy through reflective practice at the Zero to Three
National Training Institute
January
9, Milwaukee: Sandra Smith trained the outreach specialists at Community
Advocates to promote maternal health literacy among CommunityConnect
Health Plan members using the Beginnings Pregnancy Guide
