The Learning Institute of the 138th Annual Meeting of APHA will offer a presentation entitled, "Making Data Talk: Communicating Public Health Data to the Public."

As public health professionals, our ability to effectively communicate public health data is critical to the success of raising public awareness and facilitating informed decision-making on key health issues. However, communicating public health data, especially to lay audiences, is difficult. The purpose of this workshop is to provide practical suggestions and examples on how scientists, health promoters, health educators, clinicians, statisticians, and others can better communicate data to the public, policy makers, and the news media. Case studies using "real world" scenarios in cancer control and prevention will be presented and participants will have the opportunity to apply information and utilize the OPT-IN (Organize, Plan, Test, Integrate) framework to develop data presentations for key audiences.

The presentation will be at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 1:30-5:00 p.m. Presenting faculty members are David E. Nelson, MD, MPH, and Harry T. Kwon, PhD, MPH, CHES. Questions? Please contact Dr. Nelson at nelsonde@mail.nih.gov.