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Public health advocacy is POWERFUL! ⭐️⭐️Check out this new resource that dives into effective public health advocacy. How do you use your DrPH to advocate for for public health? We want to hear from our DrPH collleagues! #publichealth #advocacy #publicpolicy #publichealthmatters #publichealtheducation #drph #doctorofpublichealth

As a new season begins, we thought we'd share a few of our resources to help you SPRING into public health advocacy✍🏼💡 🌱 Advocacy Skills Series 🌱 Tip Sheet: 10 Tips for Getting Things Done in Public Health 🌱PoP Webinar Recording Find these & more on our LinkTree: linktr.ee/LCPHA

Champion public health! This new learning series describes current threats to, and ways to advocate for, public health. Check it out and learn more about effective public health advocacy: https://bit.ly/49SksK5 

Bottom Up Public Health! As we are looking at innovative ways to decrease the costs and inequities of health care, I think about this bottom up approach that CHWs have been implementing in Utah in sharing the continued success of the work we do that is boots on the ground and supports the most vulnerable and underserved populations and how we have been doing this for decades unnoticed, unrecognized, under the radar because of who we are. We are community members helping community members. No credentialed degree or expertise from an academic institution just the lived experiences we have had face to face with systemic racism and barriers that generations of our community have endured. As we built our capacity to earn a seat at the table learning the system, hustling through obtaining an education defeating all odds to ensure we could share our successes with other communities and spread the wealth of knowledge from those experiences we are rising slowly but surely. But how long more, what more do we need to do for systems to recognize the ineffectiveness of the current policies and structure for a total destruction of the system and opportunity to rebuild? How many more people have to die? How many more people have to endure chronic disease? How many more people do we need to see homeless or dealing with mental health issues due to a lack of access to needed MH services due to cost or lack of insurance? YES I understand that this is not the be all end all solution but it is not enough to just be invited to have a seat at the table. Current members at the table need to stand up for the changes at the table. Diversify the members to represent the diversity of the issues we are facing. That alone will change the dynamics and decisions made at the table. Expect some difficult conversations and AHA moments because this is what innovation looks and feels like. It feels scary. It feels uncomfortable. But you will be surprised at how the opportunity to relinquish some power and even some money might change things a whole lot. It will get worse before it gets better but it will get better. Right now we cant afford to get in a more worse place than we are as a country.

PAI 2024 will feature some of the top policy and advocacy experts in public health. Hear them discuss the most pressing topics of today. Learn more at APHA.org/PAI.

Public Health peeps we need to advocate now. I know it's been rough since some people politicized public health and COVID but it's time to get back into the game. Check out this toolkit!

Advocacy drives progress in #PublicHealth. As public health professionals, we have a duty to advocate for policies that put health first. Check out this toolkit to learn communication and advocacy strategies: https://bit.ly/3v8d8eZ

Learn how you can advocate for your profession.

And here it is- our new Advocacy Action Guide! Dive in to learn how to plan, organize and implement effective advocacy.

Learn the importance of how to become an effective research advocate. Last week, our Public Policy and Advocacy team and the North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium (NASCIC) presented a webinar on an SCI Research Advocacy Course. This free online course was developed to empower individuals with SCI and caregivers to be well-informed and effective research advocates. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dsXhdUEY 👀 #VoicesForReeve