From SOPHE National:

Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force: Town Hall

Sep 10, 2024 10:00 AM PST

The Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force (PH-ACT), an initiative led by the Johns Hopkins Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy, aims to plan and execute a rigorous consensus-building process to define public health advocacy and essential skills to operationalize it. This town hall invites health education faculty, practitioners, and students to participate in the consensus process and the path forward for applying advocacy-related competencies for improving public health outcomes.

Having an advocacy-ready workforce is critical to meeting both current and future public health challenges. New evidence shows that practitioners are underprepared to engage in advocacy efforts at the federal, state, and local levels. This town hall, sponsored by SOPHE, Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of APHA, and the Johns Hopkins Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy seeks your input on how to improve advocacy instruction in schools and programs of public health and advocacy-related continuing education.

Objectives: At the end of this town hall participants will be able to:
– Discuss the background, goals, and supporters of the
PH-ACT initiative and its importance in advancing the public’s health.
– Identify at least two skills or approaches to advocacy professional preparation/training that have helped them become successful advocates.

Application for CHES® (entry-level)/MCHES® (advanced-level) Category I continuing education contact hours (CECH) is pending. The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. has approved SOPHE and its chapters as designated multiple-event providers of CECHs in health education. SOPHE is a provider of Certified in Public Health (CPH) Renewal Credits. An application is pending to award CPH Renewal credits on behalf of the National Board of Public Health Examiners.

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