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Sarah
Furnas, R.N.
Sarah Furnas, R.N., joined Health Promotion Council
of Southeastern Pennsylvania (HPC) in 1986 to head
its professional education services and develop interventions
that could aid in chronic disease prevention and control.
To this end, she founded the Health Literacy Project
(HLP) in 1987, a health communications program, and
supervised its progress including the development of
Latino (1990), Asian (1995) and interpreter training
(1998) components through 2004. The principle focus
of Ms. Furnas' health literacy work is materials assessment,
revision, editing and writing. She also consults on
issues of chronic disease prevention and control as
well as grant writing. Her clients include corporations,
health systems, nonprofit and consumer advocacy groups.
She wrote the “Foreword” for Teaching
Patients with Low Literacy Skills, 2nd Edition, JB Lippincott
Company, 1996. She is co-author of Literacy,
Health and the Law: An Exploration of the Law and
the Plight
of Marginal Readers within the Health Care System (1996)
and supervised the 2002 update of this publication.
Ms. Furnas is an adjunct faculty at the Drexel School
of Public Health in Philadelphia. In 2004, she left
HPC to continue her health communications consulting
work from a home office.
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