Advancing Milwaukee Health Literacy Project
About |
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that blanket approaches to healthcare are largely ineffective in reaching vulnerable populations. The pandemic’s unpredictability requires healthcare workers to act effectively with the tools they already have at hand. Health Literacy is one of those tools.
The Advancing Milwaukee Health Literacy Project addresses COVID-related racial disparities through an innovative, multi-partner urban health literacy project led by the City of Milwaukee’s Office of African American Affairs. The project goal is to reduce disparities associated with the COVID-19 pandemic through improving health literacy within Milwaukee’s racial and ethnic minority communities. |
Aims |
This is a Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health funded project.
The overarching goal of this project is to reduce disparities associated with the COVID-19 pandemic through improving health literacy within Milwaukee’s racial and ethnic minority communities. It will do this through several objectives that fall under the following themes: partnership and community engagement; supporting organizations and the workforce; improving culturally specific engagement and outreach strategies; and improving communication strategies. The project seeks to increase COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, and vaccination among the target population, while increasing community access to high quality health literacy information and practices. Learn more. |
Team |
Michelle Corbett, MPH, CHES
Carrie Stehman, MS David Frazer, MPH |
