Lorena Sprager brings over 25 years’ experience of working hand in hand with Latinos to promote health, facilitate access to services, and develop leadership. Her approach is to honor traditions and build on assets. In Hood River, Oregon, she heads the health literacy and promotion firm of Lorena Sprager and Associates. She is also outreach coordinator at Nuestra Comunidad Sana, Our Healthy Community.
Lorena is dedicated to providing the highest-quality tools to empower Latinos to improve their health.
Lorena’s expertise includes:
- Developing community health worker programs
- Developing curriculum using Popular Education methodology
- Field testing with focus groups and individual interviews
- Adapting materials to plain Spanish language and for cultural appropriateness
- Providing translation, back translation, and translation quality assurance
Lorena’s recent work includes:
- Serving on an advisory group for community health worker cervical cancer screening intervention with Latinas (Centers for Disease Control, 2003–2008)
- Writing Nuestro Camino a la Buena Salud, a weight management program guide and curriculum (La Clínica del Cariño, 2008)
- Providing translation quality assurance and plain language adaptation of Hombres Preparados, a community health worker HIV/AIDS training curriculum (National Center for Farmworker Health, 2009)
