Course Objective
- Describe the policy engagement process in public health
- Identify approaches that public health agencies can use to inform policy development
- Describe how the elements of the community health improvement process can be used to support effective policy engagement to achieve public health goals
Date: August 6, 2019
Presenter:
Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS
Public Health Practice Consultant
In this Month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn about various policy-focused approaches that public health agencies can utilize from Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS. The lecture takes a systems thinking approach and acknowledges that policy making is a rarely linear process with stages occurring simultaneously. From policy around motor vehicle related incident and fluoridation of drinking water through the transition to Public Health surveillance, this webinar walks participants through the evolution of policy engagement up to Public Health 3.0 and the role of the Chief Health Strategist. Focusing on partnerships and cross-cutting activities such as stakeholder engagement, collaboration and communication Slvia Pirani provides an overview of the policy engagement process.
Participants will learn how to:
- Describe the policy engagement process in public health
- Identify approaches that public health agencies can use to inform policy development
- Describe how the elements of the community health improvement process can be used to support effective policy engagement to achieve public health goals
