Janet Ohene-Frempong, MS, is a plain language and cross-cultural communications consultant with over 25 years of experience in consumer/provider communications. She has conducted workshops and provided consultation for a wide range of health information, service, and care providers, including health care systems, government agencies, health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, medical publishers, health and human service agencies and schools of medicine, nursing and allied health.
She is often an invited speaker and keynote speaker at national conferences. Ohene-Frempong has served on several national advisory committees, and she has co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles. She is the fourth recipient of the IHA Health Literacy Hero Award, given by the Institute for Healthcare Advancement and was the was the second invited Blum Visiting Scholar, nominated annually by the Maxwell & Eleanor Blum Patient and Family Learning Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Her sensitivity to the political issues surrounding the COVID pandemic have their origins in her BA in political science from Cornell University. Her public health and teaching background have their roots in her MS in Public Health Nutrition from Columbia University Teacher’s College. The current issue of COVID is a highly emotional one. She has attempted to approach the daunting public health issue of COVID in a unique way. It is easy to read. There is no political judgement. And it aims to be as culturally neutral as possible.