Health Literacy In Real Life

Health Literacy IRL (“in real life”) is a podcast where healthcare leaders share stories about how their organizations are advancing health literacy at the institutional level — what wins they’ve secured, what sticky points they’ve encountered, and what possibilities are on the horizon. While personal health literacy gets a lot of attention (and rightfully so), organizational health literacy often stays under the radar. This show shines a light on how hospitals/health systems, biopharma, and innovative care models are assuming responsibility for the advancement of health literacy.

Health Literacy In Real Life is a health podcast hosted by Megan N. Freeland, with 9 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Megan N. Freeland hosts Health Literacy In Real Life, a health show with 9 episodes published.

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  Episode #8

  Why Diversity in Clinical Trials is Bigger Than Recruitment | Acclinate

  Jun 4, 202633 minS0

  <p>What if clinical trial participation is less about recruitment and more about trust, access, and what has to happen before someone is ever ready to say yes?</p><p>In this episode of Health Literacy IRL, host Megan Freeland, PharmD talks with Tiffany Whitlow, Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer at Acclinate, about the real-world barriers that shape who gets to participate in clinical research. Together, they explore why participation starts long before a consent form — and why community engagement, trusted relationships, and better system design matter so much.</p><p>In this episode:</p>Why recruitment is an incomplete fr...

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  Episode #7

  What Organizational Health Literacy Looks Like at Scale | UAMS Center for Health Literacy

  Apr 10, 202625 minS0

  <p>What does it look like to operationalize health literacy inside a large academic medical center?</p><p>In this episode of Health Literacy IRL, host Megan Freeland, PharmD talks with Katie Leath, MPH, MA, Director of the Center for Health Literacy at UAMS, about how health literacy can move from a side project to an embedded organizational priority. Katie shares how her team supports patient education, plain language, translation, training, and research communication across UAMS and beyond.</p><p>In this episode:</p>Why health literacy is often misunderstoodWhat organizational health literacy looks like in practiceHow UAMS’s center su...

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  Episode #6

  Why More Information Isn't Always the Answer: Aligning Health Literacy to the Patient Journey

  Mar 12, 20269 minS0

  <p>What if the greatest problem isn't that patients don't understand health information — but that we're handing them too much information under too much pressure, with no tools to process it.</p><p>In this solo episode of Health Literacy IRL, host Megan Freeland, PharmD explores why healthcare marketing, health communications, health literacy, and patient experience teams need to stop operating in silos — and start building cohesively around the patient journey.</p><p>She also elaborates on an uncomfortable and inconvenient truth: that providing more information isn't always the solution. And the system — not the patient — is largely to blame.</p><p>In...

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  Episode #5

  Reimagining Primary Care Through a Health Literacy Lens with Byron Jasper, MD, MPH

  Jan 5, 202643 minS0

  <p>In this episode of Health Literacy IRL, I’m joined by Byron Jasper, MD, MPH, founder and CEO of Byja Clinic in Louisiana, to break down what DPC is, what it isn’t, and why the model naturally creates more space for people to understand and use health information in real life. </p><p>We talk about: </p>What DPC looks like day-to-day (and why “if you’ve seen one DPC practice, you’ve seen one DPC practice”) How time becomes a health literacy intervention (think: hour-long visits, fewer rushed decisions) How transparent pricing and fewer “insurance hoops” can help patients be...

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  Episode #4

  Health Literacy in a Direct Primary Care Clinic: A Pharmacist’s View with Ellen Jones, PharmD

  Dec 1, 202534 minS0

  <p>What happens when a pharmacist becomes part of a direct primary care (DPC) clinic?</p><p>In this episode of Health Literacy IRL, I sit down with Ellen Jones, PharmD, a pharmacist and faculty member who practices inside a DPC clinic in Arkansas. We dig into how the direct primary care model — and pharmacist-led services — can transform health literacy, medication management, and the patient experience.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, we cover:</p>What direct primary care (DPC) is and how it differs from concierge medicineHow Ellen built a role as a pharmacist in a DPC clinic whil...

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