Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Genelle Lamont about health literacy.Dr. Lamont, currently serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Duluth Campus. Dr. Lamont's research interests focus on the intersection between chronic disease, social determinants of health, and Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias in indigenous populations. She also focuses on health equity, health literacy, cultural humility, and establishing meaningful and accessible health data on American Indians/Alaska Natives using community-based participatory research and building public health surveillance capacity to address native health.Listen along as Dr. Lamont shares her expansive knowledge about the importance of health literacy. Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships. More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello everybody out in Health Chatter land. Welcome to Health Chatter and our show today will be on health literacy, which is actually when we think about all the shows we've done, there's probably a health literacy component to all of them, but we'll really get into the logistics of all of that with our great guest who I'll introduce in a moment.
We have a great, wonderful ass crew behind the scenes that helps us with all our shows, Maddy Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard do our background research for all our shows that gives both Clarence and I some information that makes us sound smart. So thank you to you guys. Matthew Campbell is our production manager, makes sure that our shows get out to you, the listening audience.
And Sheridan Nygaard, is also one of our researchers, but she also helps us with marketing. So thank you to all of you. You're second to none. My co-host, partner in crime, Clarence Jones. Wow. This has been a ride. Great colleague. We love doing this show. We really, really do. And hopefully we're getting some useful information out to you, our audience. Also, I'd like to thank
Human Partnership, a community health organization that's involved with community endeavors for, frankly, for all of us. You can see their information. You can visit their website at humanpartnership.org. With that, let's get going on health literacy. Today, we've got a great guest with us, Janelle Lamont, who... We worked together all the years at the Minnesota Department of Health.
And it was ironic. I remember it well when we were thinking about all the different community oriented initiatives that we were involved with all of our grants. And it just dawned on us. I don't know how, but, you know, hopefully it was a smart decision that, you know, we should really address health literacy when we're dealing with all these great communities that we're dealing with at the time.
And so we did, we really got going on health literacy, and made sure that our, our staff knew about it, we wrote our grants with a health literacy lens, etc. And we could not have done that at all, really, without the help of our guest today, Janelle Lamont. Since then,
Yeah, since being at the health department, she is now an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, up in northern Minnesota. She got her doctorate in occupational health research and policy and a master's in public health and environmental health, all from the University of Minnesota, primary research
involves investigating the intersection between chronic disease and related risk factors such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia. But she has an illustrious background dealing with health literacy. She trained many people when she was involved at the dental health program at the Minnesota Department of Health and training dental health professionals.
And also led a lot of conferences, led actually a lot of trainings, even for us, the staff. And then it really jumped from there. I remember it jumped from there where you became really involved nationally in the issue of health literacy. And so thank you. Thank you so much for being on Health Chatter today. So let's get this going. You know, to a certain extent, health literacy is like a duh.
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