The Campus is Challenged to Initiate Maryland's Health Literacy Coalition

Dr. Rima Rudd, Harvard lecturer and a leader in health literacy research, has challenged the University of Maryland, College Park campus to create a health literacy coalition in the state.

Dr. Rudd consults with many states as they form health literacy coalitions. These teams of individuals and groups from both public and private sectors of health and education work together to remove health literacy barriers to improve health outcomes. At a workshop held at the School of Public Health on March 23, Dr. Rudd challenged the University of Maryland School of Public Health, through the Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy, to initiate the Maryland Health Literacy Coalition.

Interested persons should contact Dr. Bonnie Braun, the Herschel S. Horowitz Endowed Chair and Director at bbraun@umd.edu or 301-405-0388.

Dr. Rudd is the visiting health literacy senior scholar with the Herschel S. Horowitz Center with the School of Public Health. She is a Harvard lecturer and a leader in health literacy research. You can read her bio, or check out some clips from her first visit to UMD-SPH.