Excited to announce that Health Literacy and Communication Open was awarded the ‘International Health Literacy Association Jurgen Pelikan Award for the Best Project at the 2024 Global Health Literacy Summit', represented by Editor in Chief Danielle Muscat

Awards 🧵! 🏆 Wiser Healthcare ECR Wiser Publication Pitch Awards 2024 - Best Qualitative & Other Research for 2 recent CVD papers 🏆 International Health Literacy Association Jurgen Pelikan Award - Best Project at 2024 Global Health Literacy Summit for Health Literacy & Communication Open

And Danielle Muscat represented our journal Health Literacy & Communication Open at the Global Health Literacy Summit, where we are partnering with the International Health Literacy Association to publish presented work - stay tuned for more on that!

New papers for October: 1) Health literacy and inclusivity review of bereavement resources in an Australian healthcare setting: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 2) Health literacy profiling: a snapshot of Tasmania’s challenges and strengths using the HLQ: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢We've had submissions from all over the world for our first article collections on heart health literacy & deprescribing/polypharmacy communication! Due to continued interest we've extended the deadline until December 31 - contact A/Prof Carissa Bonner or @KristieWeir for more info

It's been great to read "heart health literacy" papers from around the world for our Health Literacy & Communication Open article collection - thank you to the authors & reviewers who have contributed so far, and please get in touch if you have an idea you'd like to submit this year! ❤️🧡💛

We're hiring! Work with Editors in Chief A/Prof Carissa Bonner and Danielle Muscat to help grow our new journal: 1. Commissioning editor: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit… 2. Social media editor: think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recruit…

📢 Excited to have some more support for Health Literacy & Communication Open next year - if you have editorial and/or social media experience in academia, come & work with our wonderful editorial board to make health literacy & communication research more accessible & internationally representative! 🌏

There's still a few weeks left to submit your health communication or health literacy papers with no open access fee! Contact A/Prof Carissa Bonner or Danielle Muscat if you have any questions about submissions.

Last call to submit your paper to Health Literacy & Communication Open this year with no open access fee. Huge thanks to Danielle Muscat for partnering with me on this, and our amazing editorial board - together we have published 20 papers from all around the world in 2024 🌎

If you still aim to submit a paper in December, please get in touch with A/Prof Carissa Bonner at [email protected] by the 20th so we can plan how to manage your submission and open access fee waiver over the holiday break.

New paper alert: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… This study translates/adapts the OPTION5 and OPTION12 measures into Danish. This will help health professionals & patients rate shared decision-making during medical consultations. #SDM International Shared Decision Making Society

5. Celebrating one year as Editors in Chief of Health Literacy & Communication Open (Health Literacy & Communication Open) with Danielle Muscat, and publishing our first full year issue with 21 papers from around the world in 2024: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…