As Pfizer Visiting Professor in Health Literacy, Linda Neuhauser will consult with an innovative coalition of Missouri organizations and universities. Dr. Neuhauser, a specialist in health communication and health literacy, will help members of the Missouri coalition develop system-wide improvements in patient communications. The coalition nominated Neuhauser through Pfizer's Medical and Academic Partnership program, which supports in-depth, clinically focused exchanges between host organizations and outside scholar-scientists.

Sweden, the United States, and Japan were the focus of an International Symposium on Healthy Aging at UC Berkeley on September 13, 2010. Cosponsors include UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, School of Social Welfare (Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services), and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley.

California's HMO Guide for Seniors: Getting the Most from Your Medicare HMO is the latest collaborative effort between Health Research for Action and the California Office of the Patient Advocate, and the second to win a Platinum Award from Hermes Creative Awards. HRA and OPA have worked together to develop many easy-to-use educational materials for California's diverse population.

The release of Preventing Toxic Exposures: Workplace Lessons in Safer Alternatives was followed by an Op Ed post in the California Progress Report, by HRA Policy Director Holly Brown-Williams.

In August, HRA won a National Health Information Gold Award for Healthy Steps In Silicon Valley, prepared with and for The Health Trust in Santa Clara County, California. Healthy Steps is a guide to staying active for adults 50 years and older, and was produced in English and Spanish.

Highlights from the Microbicides 2010 Conference in Pittsburgh last May are available from (Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations). Planning is underway for a November 2011 international symposium.

How did the development of a vaccination program in the Sahara desert inspire UCB Clinical Professor Linda Neuhauser's pioneering career in translational and participatory research?

April 30, 2009 - Health Research for Action (HRA) and the California Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA) won a Platinum Award for excellence, quality, and creativity in the 2009 international Hermes Creative Award competition for their latest California health plan guide. HRA is a health communication, research, and policy center at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. OPA is the first state government program in the United States created to help health plan members get the care they deserve.

UC Berkeley hosted Organizations and agencies that serve Deaf and hard-of-hearing people in May of 2010 to discuss the creation of an all-hazards emergency communication infrastructure that will improve preparedness communication.