WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:02.700 Hi everyone, and welcome back to another module 2 00:00:02.700 --> 00:00:05.400 and lecture here in Public Health Advocacy. 3 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:07.290 Today we are doing a quick recap 4 00:00:07.290 --> 00:00:09.600 of highlights from our required reading 5 00:00:09.600 --> 00:00:12.390 in the course text on Chapter 6 today. 6 00:00:12.390 --> 00:00:15.180 So Legislative Change in Making Law. 7 00:00:15.180 --> 00:00:17.760 I felt that this chapter was a really great reminder 8 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:19.890 of how closely public health advocates 9 00:00:19.890 --> 00:00:21.870 work with the legislative field 10 00:00:21.870 --> 00:00:24.690 and decision makers in politics. 11 00:00:24.690 --> 00:00:26.490 So in public health advocacy, 12 00:00:26.490 --> 00:00:29.040 we are looking to identify a problem 13 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:32.370 and create a positive solution for the audience 14 00:00:32.370 --> 00:00:35.190 or community we are intending to help change. 15 00:00:35.190 --> 00:00:37.260 And this can be done through many different ways, 16 00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:40.170 including disease prevention and health promotion 17 00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:43.920 through policy change, inceptions of new policies, 18 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:46.260 amending laws, and acts, and bills, 19 00:00:46.260 --> 00:00:47.820 as well as creating new bills and laws 20 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:52.470 to protect the lives of the populations we want to serve. 21 00:00:52.470 --> 00:00:56.130 A lot of times, that comes with working with politicians, 22 00:00:56.130 --> 00:00:58.350 and decision makers, and legislators, 23 00:00:58.350 --> 00:01:01.113 and often it can form a symbiotic relationship. 24 00:01:02.310 --> 00:01:04.590 In advocacy work, it's often necessary 25 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:07.530 and feels almost as if you are trying to persuade Congress, 26 00:01:07.530 --> 00:01:11.850 or boards, or legislators to support passing your law 27 00:01:11.850 --> 00:01:13.590 and supporting your campaign. 28 00:01:13.590 --> 00:01:16.380 And the way to do that is with facts, data, 29 00:01:16.380 --> 00:01:21.380 and collect enough testimonies and opinions from communities 30 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:25.590 and partners that want to get involved with your campaign. 31 00:01:25.590 --> 00:01:29.970 And while it is true that working in public health advocacy, 32 00:01:29.970 --> 00:01:32.940 you have to reach out to legislators, 33 00:01:32.940 --> 00:01:36.030 there are public health professionals within government. 34 00:01:36.030 --> 00:01:38.700 Public health is a really diversified field, 35 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:41.637 and you can find public health allied professionals 36 00:01:41.637 --> 00:01:43.020 and public health professionals 37 00:01:43.020 --> 00:01:47.110 in almost any sector of our society, including government. 38 00:01:47.110 --> 00:01:50.520 If you are interested in that intersection 39 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:53.100 of legislator and public health advocacy, 40 00:01:53.100 --> 00:01:57.300 some potential roles and jobs to pursue could include 41 00:01:57.300 --> 00:02:00.240 research for government agencies and supporting 42 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:03.840 and sharing data and relevant information to communities, 43 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:06.360 working in the public service sector, 44 00:02:06.360 --> 00:02:08.110 including the Department of Health. 45 00:02:09.180 --> 00:02:11.190 You could work in environmental health, 46 00:02:11.190 --> 00:02:13.623 community health, and even the medical field. 47 00:02:14.460 --> 00:02:17.010 One key takeaway from the chapter 48 00:02:17.010 --> 00:02:18.990 was there's a very strong difference 49 00:02:18.990 --> 00:02:22.380 between legislative advocacy and lobbying. 50 00:02:22.380 --> 00:02:26.163 While lobbying is a part of legislative advocacy, 51 00:02:27.202 --> 00:02:29.010 it is not the same. 52 00:02:29.010 --> 00:02:32.220 So we can view legislative advocacy as evidence 53 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:34.350 or research-driven education 54 00:02:34.350 --> 00:02:37.110 that can include ethnography testimonies 55 00:02:37.110 --> 00:02:40.080 and awareness to politicians, decision makers, 56 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.080 and legislative teams that allow for support to be garnered 57 00:02:45.870 --> 00:02:48.480 for our certain cause or campaign. 58 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:52.020 Legislative advocacy really is an art form. 59 00:02:52.020 --> 00:02:53.880 You're trying to frame issues in a way 60 00:02:53.880 --> 00:02:58.140 that provides a proposal of solutions, 61 00:02:58.140 --> 00:03:00.930 and garner support to better the public 62 00:03:00.930 --> 00:03:03.690 through legislative changes and supporting bills, 63 00:03:03.690 --> 00:03:05.490 laws, and acts. 64 00:03:05.490 --> 00:03:07.680 Whereas lobbying is a little bit different. 65 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:09.930 It's absolutely a part of legislative advocacy, 66 00:03:09.930 --> 00:03:11.850 but it's not the entire thing. 67 00:03:11.850 --> 00:03:14.460 We can view lobbying, and this is from the text, 68 00:03:14.460 --> 00:03:16.440 as an interjection in legislative process 69 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:18.000 for an intended cause. 70 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:20.850 So that can include changes, amendments, 71 00:03:20.850 --> 00:03:22.440 rejections, blocking. 72 00:03:22.440 --> 00:03:25.320 It often uses supports such as media and data collection 73 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:28.050 to build support for the influence on the process 74 00:03:28.050 --> 00:03:30.270 and what their intended goal is. 75 00:03:30.270 --> 00:03:32.130 As I had mentioned before, 76 00:03:32.130 --> 00:03:34.050 oftentimes in public health campaigns, 77 00:03:34.050 --> 00:03:36.690 you're going to feel a symbiotic relationship 78 00:03:36.690 --> 00:03:39.420 with a politician or a legislator 79 00:03:39.420 --> 00:03:41.160 who's going to help carry your plan 80 00:03:41.160 --> 00:03:45.780 to that ultimate goal of systemic and long-term change. 81 00:03:45.780 --> 00:03:48.850 I made a quick graphic that was really representative 82 00:03:50.070 --> 00:03:52.890 of what is in the text. 83 00:03:52.890 --> 00:03:54.780 So you're here on the left, 84 00:03:54.780 --> 00:03:57.330 you're the public health advocacy professional. 85 00:03:57.330 --> 00:03:59.580 You're gonna work to develop a campaign, 86 00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:02.085 make a pitch packet and gathering of facts, 87 00:04:02.085 --> 00:04:05.640 and do some research on who is the best person 88 00:04:05.640 --> 00:04:09.600 to carry your campaign to systemic change. 89 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:11.040 Oftentimes, you are not gonna meet 90 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:12.270 with that legislator yourself, 91 00:04:12.270 --> 00:04:15.720 but you're gonna originally work with the staff support. 92 00:04:15.720 --> 00:04:18.330 There, you're going to work on collaborating 93 00:04:18.330 --> 00:04:20.670 and drafting bills, and there's so many different 94 00:04:20.670 --> 00:04:23.190 working parts to really carry that dream 95 00:04:23.190 --> 00:04:25.980 and get the support of a politician, 96 00:04:25.980 --> 00:04:29.940 and staff and funding to make systemic change. 97 00:04:29.940 --> 00:04:32.430 And from there, once you have all of that together, 98 00:04:32.430 --> 00:04:34.230 you have your campaign, you're working, 99 00:04:34.230 --> 00:04:36.870 collaborating, you're drafting bills, 100 00:04:36.870 --> 00:04:40.230 then you can move forward to fulfilling your campaign goals. 101 00:04:40.230 --> 00:04:43.560 So absolutely two different worlds. 102 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:45.300 You have your public health advocate, 103 00:04:45.300 --> 00:04:47.310 you have your politician, and together, 104 00:04:47.310 --> 00:04:48.660 that is how we make change, 105 00:04:48.660 --> 00:04:50.973 especially in terms of policy change. 106 00:04:51.990 --> 00:04:55.200 Which seems very simple in terms of that graphic, 107 00:04:55.200 --> 00:04:57.090 but there's many different moving parts 108 00:04:57.090 --> 00:04:59.790 that are outlined a little bit more in detail in the book, 109 00:04:59.790 --> 00:05:02.970 but I wanted to highlight that working with this Dream Team, 110 00:05:02.970 --> 00:05:05.520 you're also going to be looking at 111 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:08.130 continued data collection, polling, 112 00:05:08.130 --> 00:05:11.400 getting the communities understanding and feelings, 113 00:05:11.400 --> 00:05:13.140 as that is who's voting this in, 114 00:05:13.140 --> 00:05:14.580 that is who's making the choices, 115 00:05:14.580 --> 00:05:18.390 and ultimately also living under these new policy changes, 116 00:05:18.390 --> 00:05:19.683 reform, or laws. 117 00:05:21.180 --> 00:05:23.280 We'll need to continue building support, 118 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:24.780 garnering support and testimonies, 119 00:05:24.780 --> 00:05:27.630 as well as connecting with lawyers, lawmakers, 120 00:05:27.630 --> 00:05:29.670 and also connecting to the community 121 00:05:29.670 --> 00:05:32.550 through media present and public health communications. 122 00:05:32.550 --> 00:05:35.340 Both of these are the highlight of Module 4, 123 00:05:35.340 --> 00:05:38.160 where we talk a lot more about public health communication 124 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:40.590 and why that is important to advocacy work. 125 00:05:40.590 --> 00:05:43.800 Lastly, I just wanna highlight what budget advocacy is. 126 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.290 This is another part of public health advocacy 127 00:05:46.290 --> 00:05:48.000 that oftentimes, in my opinion, 128 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:51.090 does not get the credit that it deserves. 129 00:05:51.090 --> 00:05:53.250 It's the backbone to many campaigns. 130 00:05:53.250 --> 00:05:55.500 We oftentimes don't wanna think about dollar signs 131 00:05:55.500 --> 00:05:57.060 when we wanna make change, 132 00:05:57.060 --> 00:05:59.730 but that is ultimately a necessary evil. 133 00:05:59.730 --> 00:06:02.520 We have to consider where we are getting our funding, 134 00:06:02.520 --> 00:06:05.640 how we can persuade individuals 135 00:06:05.640 --> 00:06:08.010 or the government to provide us tax dollars 136 00:06:08.010 --> 00:06:10.110 to support our cause and make changes, 137 00:06:10.110 --> 00:06:14.280 and ultimately get into an annual budget to have money 138 00:06:14.280 --> 00:06:15.879 and to put it towards the cause 139 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:17.820 that you're trying to pursue. 140 00:06:17.820 --> 00:06:20.550 This is not very easy, and if you are interested 141 00:06:20.550 --> 00:06:24.630 in budget advocacy, it is a very, very intricate field, 142 00:06:24.630 --> 00:06:26.400 and you can learn a little bit more about it 143 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:29.823 in box 6-16 in the course text. 144 00:06:30.840 --> 00:06:32.580 Here is the references, again, 145 00:06:32.580 --> 00:06:35.590 this is Chapter 6 in our Snyder and Iton 146 00:06:36.427 --> 00:06:39.930 "Advocacy for Public Health Policy: An Urgent Imperative". 147 00:06:39.930 --> 00:06:41.680 I will see you in the next lecture.