S2 Ep5: Adopting A Scientist’s Mentality During Uncertain Times

Health literacy is about a person’s ability to not just read, but to understand and act on health information to help optimize health outcomes. Patients are more responsible for their own health education than ever before. Clear health communication is one of the easiest ways to help those with limited health literacy. During this global COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an overflow of conflicting health information. Joe talks to Dr. Linda Neuhauser, Clinical Professor of Community Health and Human Development at UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, and Co-Principal Investigator of Health Research for Action, and Lori Hall, Advisor of Global Health Literacy at Lilly, about the factors that contribute to the complexity of health information, health care, concepts that have been used by scientists and the media in describing our understanding of the pandemic, and their hope in science to lead us to answers.