Jan Potter is a communications specialist with the Partnership for Health and Accountability, a division of the Georgia Hospital Association. Among her many accomplishments, Jan designed a bulletin board system on a variety of health education topics. These bulletin boards are free for others to download and use. In addition, Jan works on a wide range of projects, newsletters, and websites. Her most recent is an online toolkit to promote tobacco-free hospital campuses in Georgia.

In this Health Literacy Out Loud podcast, she talks with Helen Osborne about using humor and graphics to convey health information. Topics include:

• How bulletin boards help draw attention to important health information
• Ways to use color, humor, and graphics to engage and empower patients
• Tips to create your own bulletin boards or build on what others have done

More ways to learn:

• CDC Public Health Image Library: http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp
• Georgia Hospital Association’s (GHA) Partnership for Health and Accountability: www.gha.org/pha
• GHA Bulletin Board index: http://www.gha.org/pha/resources/bulletinboards/index.asp
• GHA Tobacco-Free Campus Toolkit: http://www.gha.org/pha/Community/TobaccoFree/Toolkit/index.asp
• Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online catalogue: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
• Osborne, H. “In Other Words…Using Humor and Graphics to Convey Healthcare Essentials.” On Call Magazine, October 2007. http://www.healthliteracy.com/article.asp?PageID=6628

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