-: Hi everyone, and welcome back
to another week here in public health advocacy.
I hope you have been enjoying
this beautiful weather outside.
This week, we are talking all about
how public health advocacy has a role in government
and how government has a role in public health advocacy.
In addition to our required Yellowdig quiz
and assignment this week,
you also have the opportunity
to submit one question to Mr. Gregg Amore.
He's the Secretary of State for the state of Rhode Island.
In addition to being a seasoned politician,
he also has decades of experience
as a history and civics teacher
for a school system in Rhode Island.
He was my history teacher,
so please give him a warm welcome.
Starting this week, I just wanted to take a moment
to capitalize on introduction videos
to share a little bit more
about public health advocacy in action.
Each week I want to highlight an organization
that I feel is doing exemplary public health advocacy work.
This week I wanna talk about Project HOPE,
which is projecthope.org for anyone who wants to learn more.
So Project HOPE is a well-known international organization
that works on creating equitable health access
on an international level.
Project HOPE is also affiliated
with the Journal Health Affairs,
which I am sure you have noticed was referenced
in one of our modules on the syllabus,
as well as in many public health courses
offered in the MPH program.
Project HOPE works under five different categories,
all working to gain awareness to different disparities,
as well as advocate for and empower changes
in communities to be more resilient
towards healthcare adversities.
They work in five major sectors,
and this is based off of their website.
That includes disasters and health crises,
infectious disease, non-communicable diseases,
maternal, neonatal and child health,
as well as health policy.
If anyone in the class has any nominations
for module three's advocacy organization of the week,
I would love to hear more about them.
Please feel free to send me an email
so I can learn more as well.
Lastly, I just wanna highlight a chance
for extra points this week on Yellowdig.
So you'll notice on Yellowdig,
we do have an assignment,
but there is a chance for bonus points.
I am curious, as I'm sure many of you are
who are not familiar with ChatGPT and AI,
on how this discussion of summarizing
an organization and what they do,
their mission and some of their work translates
onto asking AI or ChatGPT.
So for extra points
for anyone who is comfortable fulfilling this,
I would love to hear if there was any differences
between what you wrote about an organization
and what ChatGPT generated.
Please feel free to share some examples and commentary,
and you have a chance for bonus points.
As always, I'm here as a resource for you.
Any additional questions, comments, and concerns,
don't hesitate to reach out.
Let's dive in.