Oklahoma Health Equity Campaign Meeting to Highlight Health Literacy Month
Monday, October 17, 2016
For Release: October 17, 2016 – Tony Sellars, Office of Communications - (405) 271-5601
The Oklahoma State Health Department (OSDH) will host the next Oklahoma Health Equity Campaign (OHEC) meeting at 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 26, at the OSDH Central Office. The meeting provides OHEC an opportunity to interact with state and local partners to highlight community health initiatives in which they are involved.
This month’s meeting will focus on activities surrounding Health Literacy Month.
Featured speaker will be Susan Gay, who serves as a public health training coordinator for the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board. She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She earned a master’s degree in community health education from UAB, and is also a certified health education specialist (CHES). Her presentation is called, “Creating a Culture of Health Literacy."
Ida Fay Winters of Great Plains Literacy Council, Jasmine Shumaker of Moore Public Library and Leslie Gelders of the Adult Literacy Office, Oklahoma Department of Libraries will report on collaborative community efforts to address health literacy.
Videoconference access to the meeting is available at several county health departments. Contact sherriet@health.ok.gov or call (405) 271-94444, ext. 56538 if you wish to attend at one of the following sites:
Contact: Brittany Forster, (580) 482-7308
Contact: Lorna Ingram, (405) 258-2640
Contact: Della Helm, (580) 233-0650
Contact: Noni Leal, (580) 227-3362
Contact: Shannon Currence, (580) 395-2906
Contact: Sherrie Thrower, (405) 271-9444, ext. 56538
Contact: (918) 582-9355
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