Issue 02 · July 2026 · 3 minute read
Public Health IS Education
Health literacy is a design problem, not a knowledge problem — plus two workshop formats communities actually attend.
When a family does not follow the plan, the first question is usually about compliance. The better question is about the handout: who wrote it, at what reading level, and in whose language.
Education is not a pamphlet. It is the decision to make the right choice the easiest one to understand.
Funding
State health-literacy mini-grants for community organizations — rolling review.
Read
Why plain language outperforms translation alone in patient materials.
Tool
A 90-minute workshop outline for teaching a screening topic without slides.
Try this
Read your next handout aloud to someone outside public health.