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The Most Expensive Word in Health Care Might Be “Placebo”
Health Literacy Media built a business around a stubborn idea: medical information is not clear until the people who need it say so. Its real product is the revision that happens after an expert discovers what a reader did not understand.
The Public Good Projects Found a Second Epidemic Hiding in Plain Sight
Public health used to broadcast. PGP built a listening post - then turned the signal into campaigns, training and news people might actually use.
The Berkeley team that lets the reader rewrite the instructions
Health Research for Action turns public-health research into guides, tools, and messages people can use. Its most revealing work begins when the intended audience finds something the experts missed.
Grapevine Health
Grapevine Health is a Washington, DC-based digital health media company founded by physician and epidemiologist Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick. It creates culturally relevant, plain-language health content and delivers it through trusted messengers, street-level conversations, and an SMS platform called HealthText to raise health literacy and build trust among Medicaid enrollees and other underserved communities.