Strategic Advocacy for Change

Catalog description

This professional coursework explores the multiple roles that health advocates assume as they create productive change on behalf of patients, families, and communities. Advocacy is crucial to public health, working toward policy change and improved implementation of existing policies and eliminating barriers to health triggered by environmental destruction, poverty, and illiteracy. Students will explore concepts, models, and practices of health advocacy, and appraise strategies used by health advocates and consumers to leverage more power in making decisions, defining issues, designing programs, and developing policies. Students will also be responsible for conducting three (3) executive interviews of leaders in the field of public health.