| To celebrate Health Literacy Month this October, the MRCT Center invites you to participate in three engaging and informative webinars. These sessions will provide practical tools and foster robust discussions, benefiting anyone interested in incorporating health literacy and accessibility best practices into communicating participant-facing clinical research information.
We encourage you to join all three sessions: October 10: Designing Impactful Informed Consent Processes that Empower Participants; October 17: Creating and Sharing Plain Language Summaries: One Team’s Experience; and October 22: Designing PowerPoint Presentations to Support Health Literacy and Accessibility. Even if you're unable to attend live, registering ensures you'll receive the recording link and any shared materials.
October 22, 12 – 1 PM ET
The Research Ethics Action Collaborative for HRPPs (REACH) is an initiative spearheaded by the MRCT Center, AAHRPP, PRIM&R, and Mass General Brigham to curate, align, and disseminate tools to advance access to and inclusion in research—for all potential participants–tailored for Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), Human Research Protection Programs (HRPPs), and the broader community.
Description: Join the REACH collaborative for a dynamic webinar focused on improving PowerPoint presentations through clear, accessible, and inclusive considerations. This session will begin by continuing the discussion from the first two October 2024 MRCT Center webinars on developing impactful and empowering participant-facing materials (such as Informed Consent forms) and utilizing plain language. We will show, through examples from the Accessibility by Design in Clinical Research Toolkit, how these health literacy principles congruently apply from a disability perspective. Because so much communication is now virtual, we'll then move to exploring how to make PowerPoint content not only readable and approachable, but also formatted for accessibility and inclusiveness of people with disabilities. Whether you're a researcher, HRPP, or involved in other areas of clinical research, this webinar will provide valuable insights into creating presentations that are both accessible and engaging.
Please join us as we discuss:
- Learn about the core concepts of health literacy and why they matter in clinical research. Understand how these principles can improve the clarity of your presentations.
- Explore hands-on approaches for integrating readability and health literacy principles into your PowerPoint slides.
- Participate in a moderated discussion and Q&A session to delve deeper into the application of plain language and readability in presentations. Share your experiences and get answers to your questions.
We look forward to sharing this important work with you. |
