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MURAL Series: Working with professional interpreters, translators, and research participants who speak primary languages other than English

November 5, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

MURAL Multilingual Research Capacity Building Lecture Series: Working with professional interpreters, translators, and research participants who speak primary languages other than English


Learn about the importance of collaborating with qualified interpreters and translators when designing and implementing health research studies with Speakers of Languages other than English.

Join the Multilingual Research Advancement for Health (MURAL) program and Myriam Peereboom, MBA/MHA, CMI, CHITM, for the third edition of the Fall 2020 MURAL Multilingual Research Capacity Building Lecture Series. Peereboom will detail the roles and modes of interpreters and different local resources available for reaching qualified interpreters. She will also present case studies in which the lack of adequate protocols for ensuring quality language interpreting resulted in medical errors. Finally, she will present some lessons learned to keep in mind when working with interpreters and translators.

Presenter: Myriam Peereboom, MBA/MHA, CMI, CHITM
Education Specialist, Interpreter Services
UNC Health

Organizer

NC TraCS (Translational and Clinical Sciences) Institute
Phone
(919) 966-6022
Email
nctracs@unc.edu
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Other

Contact Name
Daniel Nuttall
Contact Email/Phone
daniel_nuttall@med.unc.edu