During the fall 2014 semester, Diana Wang, Sama El Baz, Megan Keane, and Sarah Younan teamed up in HLTH 371: Communicating Safety and Health to design a health communication campaign for what they thought was just going to be another class project. Based on personal experiences abroad in Thailand, where children living in poverty were required to brush their teeth in school, Ms. El Baz and Ms. Wang suggested they craft their project around oral health.

Kathleen Ruben, a Ph.D. candidate in health services administration, has been selected as the first recipient of the Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy's Rima E. Rudd Fellowship in Health Literacy.