Divisions & Interest Groups

Organizational Health Literacy Interest Group is organized around the LinkedIn group, which currently has 563 participants: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14408928/

The aim of the Health Literacy Explorers Interest Group is to provide a platform for early career professionals in similar circumstances, facing similar opportunities & challenges, who would like to share their experience and knowledge on Heath Literacy (HL).

This Division works for a common understanding and implementation of Planetary and One Health Literacy in policy, research, and practice and collaborates in an interdisciplinary way to improve health literacy for people and the planet.

This interest group aims to ensure oral health literacy becomes a recognized priority across health systems, empowering individuals and communities to achieve better health outcomes for life.

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This special interest group aims to improve the health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and families

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The interest group aims the global exchange of research and practice on different aspects of health literacy and health behavior throughout the life course. 

The Health Literacy and Health Equity interest group aims to strengthen the link between health literacy and health equity.

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This interest group brings together interested people who wish to advance the understanding and strengthening of health literacy among people with intellectual disabilities and cognitive impairments.

This interest group encourages discussion and supports advocacy efforts towards adopting health literacy as a universal best practice in healthcare/pharmaceutical market research design and recruitment.

The aim of this interest group is to collaborate about health literacy in schools and launch a global discussion.

The Health Literacy and Nursing interest group will promote global collaboration among nurses for advocacy, research, and community engagement initiatives to improve health literacy and patient outcomes.

This interest group will encourage librarians of all types to provide information and assistance to consumers, the general public, health professionals, to reduce health disparities and strengthen health literacy skills and practice.

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This IHLA’s Interest Group on Migrants’ Health Literacy is motivated to contribute to the increasingly needed scientifical and practical knowledge on the health literacy of all migrant populations.

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The purpose of the group is to raise awareness and build a knowledge base by sharing lessons learned in communicating clearly within and across languages and cultures, in a respectful and equitable way.

A space for rehab professionals to connect as a community, to discuss and share knowledge, experiences, and resources to advance health literacy in rehabilitation. 

The self-care literacy interest group aims to enhance self-care literacy by creating a comprehensive map of the current self-care literacy policy landscape and proposing actionable strategies for improving it.

This interest group aims to advance the pedagogy and scholarship of teaching health literacy to medical and health professionals internationally.