An Innovative Approach to Engaging Black Teens in Public Health: Lessons From the Mount Sinai Public Health and Racial Justice Program
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMThu
Speakers
Alyssa K. Gale, MPH
Director of Health Education
The Mount Sinai Health System
Objectives: • Examine the relationship between health literacy, civic literacy, and efforts to advance health equity • Explore the needs, benefits, and challenges of implementing health literacy programming for youth • Consider the ways by which your organization can implement programming which builds civic literacy amongst youth, particularly Black youth and youth of color