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Presentation
Train the Digital Health Literacy Trainer: Library and Community Partnership
IHA Health Literacy Conference (2022)
  • Stacey Knight-Davis
  • Lauri J. DeRuiter-Willems, Eastern Illinois University
  • Elizabeth Gill, Eastern Illinois University
  • Kimberly Ross, Eastern Illinois University
  • Carrie Wennerdahl, Eastern Illinois University
Abstract
Faculty from Public Health, Health Communication, and Library Services partnered to build a train the trainer program for digital health literacy. A Public Library Collaboration from the Network of the National Library of Medicine Region 6 funded the program. The award provided salaries for two digital health literacy coordinators. Coordinators interviewed area libraries and LGBTQ+ groups to produce training specific to their needs. Training videos and a website were developed and disseminated to partners. By training librarians and LGBTQ advocates to provide digital health literacy training the project has longer and wider impact than direct training.
Publication Date
May, 2022
Location
Virtual
Citation Information
Stacey Knight-Davis, Lauri J. DeRuiter-Willems, Elizabeth Gill, Kimberly Ross, et al.. "Train the Digital Health Literacy Trainer: Library and Community Partnership" IHA Health Literacy Conference (2022)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stacey_knight-davis/91/