Celebrate Health Literacy Month! Share Your Event.
Health Literacy Month is a time to recognize and promote the importance of making health information easy to understand and act on. Whether you’re organizing a staff training, hosting a public webinar, or launching a creative outreach activity, your event can inspire others to take action, too.
Submit Your Activity or Event
Tell us what you’re planning for October!
- Events can be internal or public
- In-person, virtual, or hybrid
- Webinars, trainings, resource launches, outreach campaigns, and more
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Submissions will be reviewed and posted in this page within five business days.
See What Others Are Planning.
Explore how others are celebrating Health Literacy Month:
Webinar- Applied Health Literacy: Using Teach-back in Conversations about Clinical Research
Date: Oct 30, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (ET)
Description: Join us for a a webinar to explore teach-back (TB) within the clinical research context.
Audience: Public
Format: Virtual
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Discover Your Health Through Books!
Hosted by The Office of Patient/Family Education and Health Literacy at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
Date: October 15, 2025 @ 10:30am – 12pm PT
Description: This year, in celebration of Health Literacy Month, we are thrilled to invite our patients and their families to a special book reading event at our Story Corner with our Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care Services. Additionally, each pediatric patient will receive a tote bag filled with a selection of health-related books and a bookmark, hand-delivered by members of our Patient Education Council and the Office of Patient/Family Education and Health Literacy team.
Audience: Internal/Patients
Format: In Person
Health Literacy Webinar:Persuading Leaders, Inspiring Action
Hosted by Cook County Department of Public Health
Date: October 17, 2025 @ 10:00am – 11:30am CT
Description: Celebrate Health Literacy Month with Our Free Webinar Series! Join Literacy Works and Cook County Department of Public Health for a 6-part webinar series designed to strengthen organizational health literacy. Each session will explore key strategies in leadership, communication, collaboration, and accessibility to help improve how we serve our communities.
Audience: Public
Format: Virtual
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Staff Activities- Focus on Teach Back to Check Understanding
Hosted by Children’s WI Health Literacy Task Force
Date: October 1 – 31, 2025
Description: This year, we’re promoting Teach Back across our system! Our campaign includes staff and family flyers, Teach Back Myth Busters, “Clear Communication for All” Teams/Zoom backgrounds, and display posters. Staff and providers can join in by nominating Health Literacy Heroes and completing a Healthy Rewards activity for a chance to win prizes. We have an internal webpage with all of our campaign details, along with a variety of learning resources for our team members.
Audience: Internal
Format: Hybrid
Awareness and Recognition Campaign
Hosted by Health Confianza
Date: October 1 – 31, 2025
Description: To celebrate Health Literacy Month by recognizing and showcasing individuals (Ambassador Program) and organizations (Health Literacy Pledge Program) who have completed health literacy and health communication training.
Audience: Public
Format: Social Media Campaign (month-long)
Virtual Lecture- Health Literacy Month: Communication about Meds
Hosted by UC San Diego Health
Date: October 23, 2025 @ 10amPT
Description: Two-hour in-person and Zoom event aligning Health Literacy Month with organizational goals to improve communication about medication.
Audience: Public
Format: Hybrid
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Virtual Conference- Health Literacy Annual Research Conference (HARC)
Hosted by HLRP and IHA
Date: October 27, 2025
Description: HARC is an interdisciplinary meeting for investigators dedicated to advancing health literacy research, professional development, and the quality of research in the field. It attracts a wide range of investigators engaged in public health, health services, epidemiology, translational, and interventional research.
Audience: Public
Format: Virtual
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Training- Health Literacy and Communication Skills
Hosted by Monash University
Description: A virtual training for graduate students in wound care, focused on applying health literacy principles when discussing diabetes and foot-related conditions. Students will learn practical communication skills to better support patients and the public.
Audience: Internal (Monash University students only)
Format: Virtual
Webinar- PAWSIC: Know More, Do More: The Synergy of Wound Literacy
Hosted by WoundCon
Date: Nov. 7 @ 12:35pm – 1:35pm EST
Description: A webinar designed for healthcare professionals seeking to strengthen patient engagement and outcomes. This session introduces the Martin-WISE Scale, the first wound-specific health literacy assessment tool, and shows how measuring literacy can transform patient education and provider communication.
Audience: Public
Format: Virtual
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CN Tower Lighting for Health Literacy Month
Hosted by University Health Network
Date: October 7, 2025
Description: To celebrate HL Month, the CN Tower will be lit in orange and blue.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
World Mental Health Day Online YA Poetry Reading
Hosted by Valorena Publishing
Date: October 10, 2025 @ 4:30 – 6pm PT
Description: To honor World Mental Health Day 2025, Valorena Online is hosting an online poetry reading with YA author & poet, Jouvanna ‘Jojo’ Brame.
Audience: Students and Public
Format: Virtual
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