Seminars & conferences

Dr Rima Rudd, Harvard School of Public Health,
Melbourne March 2012

Dr Rima Rudd is a health literacy expert at the Harvard School of Public Health. She has served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on Health Literacy, and the Joint Commission Advisory Committee on Health Literacy and Patient Safety, and several national literacy initiatives in Canada, England, and Europe. Dr Rudd is a principal investigator and co-principal investigator on several health literacy research inquiries and is considered a leader in this new field of inquiry.

Dr Rudd led an overview of current international initiatives in health literacy, followed by an opportunity to discuss relevance and potential application to the Victorian health context on March 26 and 27 2012.

An overview of health literacy and information initiatives driven by the Department of Health was provided to set the scene of health literacy initiatives currently in Victoria.

 Dr Rima Rudd Harvard School of Public Health - Melbourne Seminar March 2012

 Mapping of Department of Health's Health Literacy and Information Initiatives - March 2012

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