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Roundtable on Health Literacy; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Health and Medicine Division; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Relevance of Health Literacy to Precision Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2016 Apr 11.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the sponsors of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy who made it possible to plan and conduct the workshop on the relevance of health literacy to precision medicine, which this publication summarizes. Federal sponsors included the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, and Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Nonfederal sponsorship was provided AbbVie Inc., by the Aetna Foundation; American Dental Association; Bristol-Myers Squibb; East Bay Community Foundation (Kaiser Permanente); Eli Lilly and Company; Health Literacy Missouri; Health Literacy Partners; Humana; Institute for Healthcare Advancement; Merck & Co., Inc.; Northwell Health; and UnitedHealth Group.

The workshop presentations and reactions to those presentations were both interesting and stimulating, and we would like to thank each of the speakers and panel reactors for their time and effort. Speakers and reactors were, in alphabetical order, Marin P. Allen, Jessica Ancker, Paul S. Appelbaum, Suzanne Bakken, Terry Davis, Jennifer Dillaha, Carla Easter, William Elwood, Lori Erby, Chris Gunter, Kathleen Hickey, Joseph D. McInerney, Benjamin Solomon, Sara Van Driest, Catherine Wicklund, Consuelo Wilkins, and Michael S. Wolf.

Copyright 2016 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Bookshelf ID: NBK396124

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