Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Office of Minority Health (OMH) are dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities. Through its demonstration grants, OMH supports the identification of effective approaches for improving health outcomes with the ultimate goal of promoting dissemination, adoption, and sustainability of these approaches. The Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 initiative aligns with:

1.  HHS Strategic Plan Goal 2: Protect the Health of Americans Where They Live, Learn, Work, and Play;
2.  Healthy People 2030 objectives:
   1. Increase the proportion of adults whose health care provider checked their understanding;
   2. Reduce the proportion of adults who report poor patient and provider communication;
   3. Increase the proportion of adults whose health care providers involved them in decisions as much as they wanted; and
   4. Increase the proportion of people with vaccination records in an information system; and
3. The OASH priority on health disparities.

Applications are due April 20, 2021.