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Health Literacy, eHealth, and Communication: Putting the Consumer First: Workshop Summary

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lege of Healthcare Executives. She holds a master’s degree in strategic
communication from Seton Hall University, New Jersey and is currently
a doctoral student in the joint sociology/communication program at the
University of Albany. Ms. Nazi’s research interests include technology
and personal health records, health communication, and behavioral inter-
ventions. Prior to taking on her current role in July 2006, she served as
the director of eHealth for the VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York,
focusing on the use of technology to improve and expand the delivery of
health care services. Ms. Nazi is a graduate of the VA’s Executive Career
Field Candidate program and a member of the American Health Informa-
tion Community Consumer Empowerment Workgroup.

Cameron D. Norman, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of
Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto, director of evaluation
with the Peter A. Silverman Global eHealth Program, and the principal
investigator of Youth Voices Research, the youth engagement unit of the
Centre for Health Promotion. The focus of his research is on understand-
ing how people work together to solve health problems and how informa-
tion technologies can aid learning and collaboration across time, physical
space, and culture to improve health and well-being. His current research
is seeking to understand how youth and young adults are engaged in
health promotion through virtual communities; exploring what skills
are necessary to fully participate in health decisions using information
technology (eHealth); and how social networks connect ideas together to
translate knowledge into improved health practices with professionals
and consumers alike. Dr. Norman has published and presented widely on
the concept of eHealth literacy, which he developed (with Harvey Skinner
at York University) as a means of framing the essential skills necessary to
fully engage with electronic health tools. His eHealth Literacy Scale is cur-
rently in use in nine countries and has been translated into five languages
and applied to both consumer and health professional populations.
Dr. Norman holds a Ph.D. in public health from the University of
Toronto and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in systems thinking and
complexity science jointly at the University of British Columbia and the
Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto. He lives in Toronto.

Anthony “Tony” Rodgers has over 25 years of health care executive
management experience in both hospital systems and health plans. He
currently holds the position of director of the Arizona Medicaid Program,
known as the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
As Director, Mr. Rodgers reports to the Governor and is responsible
for providing health coverage for one million Arizonans. The agency
administers multiple sources of funding and provides oversight and com-

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