Health Communication Conferences

The ACP Foundation conducts annual national health communication conferences, convening panels of experts from all levels of the health care system to address issues in health communication. After each conference, the Foundation publishes a report summarizing the key messages for broad distribution. Each conference is evaluated by participants in order to assist the Foundation in designing the topic and format of the next conference and identifying potential Health Communication Initiative projects.

November 22, 2010 Invitational Conference

The American College of Physicians Foundation is collaborating with the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy to host an invitational conference to address the impact of low health literacy on health care quality. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Quality Forum, and the CIGNA Foundation. An Executive Summary, sponsored by MetLife Foundation, will be available in early 2011.

Past Conferences
New Directions in Health Literacy
November 19, 2008

Advances in Health Literacy
November 28, 2007

Moving Toward Real Solutions: Advances to Address Low Health Literacy
November 29, 2006

Practical Solutions to the Problems of Low Health Literacy
November 30, 2005

Moving Forward to Improve Health Literacy
October 26-27, 2004

Strategies to Improve Health Care by Removing Communication Barriers
November 17, 2003

Health Care Communication: A Key to Quality
October 22, 2002