Health Literacy and Child Health Outcomes Promoting Effective Health Communication Strategies to Improve Quality of Care

Rosina Avila Connelly, MD, MPH
, is an associate professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, Alabama. Connelly also is a physician leader of Outpatient General Pediatrics at the Children's Medical Center and a member of the Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction Committee at the USA Children's and Women's Hospital, both of which are affiliated with the University of South Alabama Health System.



Teri Turner, MD, MPH
, is associate professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Turner also is associate director of house staff education, director of the Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship, and Director of the Center for Research, Innovation, and Scholarship.