Principal Investigator and Test Developer.

Activity: Other

Description

Grant amount $20,817 Principal Investigator and Test Developer. Responsibilities included: directing a team of researchers to improve: 1) hospital signage (English/Spanish), 2) written material in Spanish (either via translation of materials into Spanish, culturally adapting existing materials or re-creating written materials for Spanish-speaking Latinos living in the US), 3) oral communication (either via establishing interpreting programs or via increasing language capacity on the sites); and 4) designing tests to measure language proficiency of health-care providers.
Period1 Feb 200215 Apr 2004
Held atHablamos Juntos, a $18,000,000 national initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, United States
Degree of RecognitionNational