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The Centre for Global Health and Equity presents Health Literacy Development with Ophelia

A 2-day masterclass led by the globally recognised founder of health literacy development and the Ophelia (Optimising Health Literacy and Access) process, Distinguished Professor Richard Osborne. This masterclass is for managers, executives, health professionals, health planners, policy makers, researchers, and those active in health promotion and community services. 

This masterclass will

• Demonstrate how to build fit-for-purpose interventions reduce inequity in health service access and engagement.

• Introduce Ophelia (Optimising Health Literacy and Access), a structured process for identifying and responding to health literacy needs.

• Explain health literacy with the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) and eHealth Literacy Questionnaire (eHLQ) including their relevance to needs assessment, evaluation, and quality improvement.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:
• Describe social determinants of health, including health literacy, as influencers of health equity
• Explain how health literacy development creates enabling environments to lead to improved health access and equity
• Use tools and processes to identify diverse health literacy strengths and challenges
• Apply the Ophelia process to design, implement and evaluate actions and interventions to promote effectiveness, uptake and sustainability
• Design participatory and strengths-based approaches for health literacy development in organisations and communities in different contexts
• Integrate health literacy responsiveness into organisations to support community health literacy development
• Appraise international health literacy policy and practice

Masterclass Facilitators:

Richard Osborne BSc, PhD: Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences, Director, Centre for Global Health and Equity, Swinburne University, Australia; NHMRC Principal Research Fellow (2019-2023); Honorary Professor of Health Literacy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Prof (Hon), NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal; Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professorship, Thammasat University, Thailand

Shandell Elmer RN, BA (Hons), PhD: Associate Professor, School of Nursing, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Australia

Melanie Hawkins BA, BHSc, MPH, PhD: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Global Health and Equity (CGHE), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia 

Christina Cheng BA, PhD: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Global Health and Equity (CGHE), Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Ranjit Gajendra FGIA FCMA: Manager, Strategic Research, knowledges exchange and engagement with Swinburne University of Technology and Chairman of Eastern Volunteers. A Fellow of both the Governance Institute and Chartered institute of Management Accountants his postgraduate studies include in education management, innovation and entrepreneurship

For information or group registrations, please contact Kerrie Paulger at ghe-capacitybuilding@swin.edu.au

Location

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Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Global Health and Equity
Advanced Technologies Centre, Room 322, 427-451 Burwood Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122

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