Dear Section members,

Our first newsletter of the year! We have some exciting announcements to share:

Call for papers: Public Health special issue on Health Literacy

Do you have writing goals for 2024? If so, you may be interested in submitting to this special issue (deadline 31 December 2024). In-scope topics include:

• How health literacy is promoted and recognised in the age of Artificial Intelligence, the post-COVID-19 era, the sea of health misinformation, and the climate change crisis
• Evaluation of and implications for health literacy adoption in health-related policies within and across settings
• Impacts of improving health literacy on tackling health inequities and health inequalities
• Role of health literacy in sustainable development and as a social determinant of health
• Public health education on health literacy (including the pedagogy of teaching health literacy in the curricula of health professions and adoption of health literacy in basic literacy and numeracy education)
• Evolution and future development of the definitions of health literacy
• Development and application of measurement tools of various domains of health literacy with intercultural adaptations (including critical health literacy)
• Evaluation of national, local or community health literacy programmes/initiatives
• Interventional studies (including community trials in resource-restricted settings)
• Health literacy in a collective or social context

European Public Health Week 2024

We are gathering ideas for events/webinars to celebrate European Public Health Week (EUPHW), May 13–17. Let us know what you would like the Section to do using our survey, which remains open: we've received 16 responses to-date, please keep them coming!

Preparations for EPHC 2024

This year, the 17th European Public Health Conference 2024: Sailing the waves of European public health: exploring a sea of innovation will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, 12-15 November. Do you have ideas for an abstract? Would you like support in preparing an abstract? Let us know in our survey. Responses received currently indicate that an abstract-writing workshop/sounding board would be helpful. Suggested topics so far include:

1. Organizational Health Literacy
2. Health Literacy and One Health/Planetary Health
3. Environmental Health Literacy
4. Public Health Literacy (including in crises)
5. Health Literacy for Disadvantaged Groups

New social media account

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Best regards,

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