She was the co-Director of the Center for Medicine and the Media, and ran courses for health journalists on how to report medical research.
[4] The study emphasised that articles presented at scientific meetings are not ready for the general public.
[5] She published a monograph on health statistic communication with the Association for Psychological Science.
[8] Schwartz studied how numeracy impacted a woman's ability to understand the benefit of cancer screening.
It used data from SEET (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program) and the National Center for Health Statistics and included interactive charts that revealed the chances of dying.
[12] The Drugs Fact Box was accompanied by a booklet that helped the public understand health statistics.