Advocating for Public Health Learning Series
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Nonprofits, Public Health Leaders, Small Businesses File Suit to Block OMB Attempt to Halt Essential Services
This resource reports on a lawsuit filed by a coalition of nonprofits, public health leaders, and small businesses to block the White House Office of Managem...
Letters to Congress and Federal Agencies
This resource provides letters from the American Public Health Association (APHA) to Congress and federal agencies advocating for public health policies and...
Advocacy For Public Health: Testimony, Comments and Briefs
This resource is a collection of policy briefs,...
Judge Issues National Injunction to Block Trump Administration’s Devastating Attempt to Halt Funding For Essential Services
This resource reports on a U.S. District Court’s decision to issue a preliminary injunction, blocking the Trump administration’s attempt to fre...
A Public Health Amicus Brief Highlights the Harm if the Supreme Court Invalidates a Key Provision of the Affordable Care Act
This resource is an amicus brief filed by the American Public Health Association and 115 other organizations, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Aff...
Congress: Don’t Cut Lifesaving Investments that Communities are Counting on
This resource is a statement from health organizations urging Congress to maintain funding for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Infl...
Protect School Meals Letter
This resource is a letter from various health and education organizations to U.S. Congressional leaders, strongly opposing proposed cuts to school meal progr...
Plaintiffs’ Motion For A Preliminary Injunction
This resource is a legal document detailing a motion for a preliminary injunction in a case where several plaintiffs are challenging a directive from the Off...
Veterans, Teachers, Public Health Professionals, Consumer Advocates, and Watchdog Groups File Suit Challenging the DOGE’s Secret Operations
This resource is a news release announcing a lawsuit filed by a coalition of veterans, teachers, public health professionals, consumer advocates, and watchdo...
American Public Health Association: Withdrawal of the United States From World Health Organization (WHO)
This resource is a letter from various public health, medical, and advocacy organizations urging President Trump to remain in the World Health Organization (...
American Public Health Association: Advocacy Letter H.R. 21/S. 6.
This resource is a letter from medical and health professional organizations opposing H.R. 21/S. 6, arguing that it interferes with patient-provider relation...
A Direct Attack on Every American’s Health and Safety: Statement From ‘For Our Health’ in Response to Actions Taken at Federal Health Agencies
This resource is a statement from ‘For Our Health’ condemning actions by the Trump administration that undermine public health protections, inc...
APHA Announces New Initiative For Our Health to Defend Science and Safeguard the Public’s Health
The resource announces the American Public Health Association’s new initiative, “For Our Health,” aimed at defending science, promoting...
Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order on OMB Freeze
This resource reports on a U.S. District Court’s temporary restraining order against the OMB’s freeze on federal grant disbursements, which had...
American Public Health Association: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This resource is a letter from the American Public Health Association expressing concerns about the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the U...
Reimagining Public Health Advocacy
This resource explores the potential for stronger partnerships between public health NGOs and community power-building organizations (CPBOs) to address healt...
Ready to Advance Health Equity
This resource focuses on enhancing the capacity of state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments to use law and policy to address social...
Health Equity Policy Framework
This resource guides efforts to advance health equity and dismantle structural racism in Massachusetts, offering a roadmap for policy development, community...
Community Power–Building Groups and Public Health NGOs: Reimagining Public Health Advocacy
This resource explores the potential of partnerships between public health organizations and community power-building organizations to address...
Why Proposed Legislation to End Judicial Deference to Executive Agencies Matters For Public Health
This resource discusses the practice of judicial deference to agencies’ interpretations of statutes, particularly focusing on its importance for publi...
Strengthening Public Health Authority to Contain and Prevent Communicable Disease
This resource provides an overview of the evolving legal and regulatory framework for...
Whitmer Vetoes Bill Aimed at Limiting Health Department’s Emergency Powers
This resource discusses Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s veto of Senate Bill 1, which aimed to limit the state health department’s emergenc...
Toward an Empowered and Trusted Public Health System: Learnings From COVID-19 Era Bright Spots Policies
This resource discusses positive policy developments during the COVID-19 pandemic that have helped public health departments adapt and better serve their com...
Edwards Rejects Bill To Give Lawmakers More Emergency Power
This resource reports that Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed a bill that would have given lawmakers more authority over his emergency COVID-19 decis...
The History of Seat-Belt Laws Shows Public Health Doesn’t Have To Be Partisan
This resource details how seat-belt laws, initially controversial, gained bipartisan support by focusing on child safety and strategic advocacy, suggesting a...
Our History of Advocacy: Defending Your Right To Breathe Smokefree Air Since 1976
This resource outlines the key milestones in the fight for smoke-free air, detailing legislative victories, grassroots efforts, and public health campaigns l...
Advocacy for Public Health Policy Change: An Urgent Imperative
This resource serves as a comprehensive guide to public health advocacy. It covers essential topics including the central role of advocacy in public health,...
They Took On the Food Giants — and Won
This story highlights the influential role of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (C.S.P.I.) in advocating for healthier food policies and practice...
The Power of Policy: 10 Tips for Getting Things Done in Public Health
This resource provides insights and strategies for effectively translating evidence into action through policy in public health. The speakers offer practical...
Public Health Advocacy: Informing Lawmakers about What Matters Most in Our Communities
This resource details the importance of public health advocacy, highlighting how public health professionals and informed citizens can effectively engage wit...
Opinion: Always the Bridesmaid, Public Health Rarely Spotlighted Until It’s Too Late
This resource explains the distinct roles and importance of the public health system and the healthcare system in the U.S., emphasizing the critical need for...
APHA Legislative Advocacy Handbook: A Guide For Effective Public Health Advocacy
This resource provides a detailed guide on engaging in public health advocacy, including understanding legislative and regulatory processes, effective commun...
Developing a Comprehensive Curriculum for Public Health Advocacy
This resource outlines a proposal for a 100-hour interactive online curriculum to address the gap in advocacy education within public health school curricula...
Worksheet: Crafting Effective Op-eds
This resource provides guidance on how to write effective opinion pieces (op-eds) with a focus on public health and social justice issues.
Activity: Letter to the Editor
This resource is a sample letter to the editor format to help organize ideas.
Trends in US State Public Health Emergency Laws, 2021–2022
This resource identifies and categorizes US state legislation introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, that addresses emergency health authority...
Regulating Public Health Measures
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation regulating public health measures introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U...
Public Health Preemption
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation preempting public health measures introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U...
Public Health Authority Limits
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation limiting the emergency public health authority of state governors, state health officials, and loca...
Undoing the Drivers of Health Inequity
This resource shows how ChangeLab Solutions addresses the five fundamental drivers of health inequity by developing legal and policy strategies to transform...
2023 Update: Strategies for Equitable Policymaking
This resource builds upon the equitable policymaking frameworks and concepts outlined in the Blueprint. It explores drivers of health inequity, community eng...
Innovative Laws and Policies for a Post-Pandemic Public Health System
This report collects and categorizes policies aimed at strengthening public health. It focuses on enacted state laws but includes examples from federal, loca...
Laws Addressing Public Health Authority to Respond to Emergencies
This resource is a longitudinal dataset that captures laws addressing authority to respond to public health emergencies enacted between May 21, 2022, and Apr...
Worksheet: Message Development
This worksheet outlines effective message development that is used in advocacy. It offers a description of how to create these messages while providing some...
Power Tools
This website contains a wide array of tools and resources that can be used for advocacy and campaigning. Some of these resources include: planning tools, coa...
Legislative Alerts
This website provides legislative updates from the federal government. The resources are centered around the implications of governmental affairs with state...
State Public Health Legislation Database
This database offers up-to-date information about bills that relate to public health in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Users are able to...
The Evolution and Innovation of Combating Abusive Preemption
This workshop discusses preemption within state legislatures and how to combat abusive preemptive measures. Speakers highlight specific case studies in vario...
Public Health Authority Litigation Tracking
This database offers weekly updates pertaining to judicial action and litigation surrounding public health authority throughout the nation. Many of these cas...
Advancing Prenatal-to-Three Policies: A Guide to Finding Commonalities and Solutions with Conservative Decision-Makers
This two part workshop highlights the ways in which people can work across the aisle and create meaningful change. The first part of this workshop is comprom...
Marketing Public Health
This free, hour-long course offers an introduction to the principles of branding and marketing public health to stakeholders. The course will equip users wit...
Campaign Resource Library
This resource library offers a wide array of resources relating to disciplines of public health that can be used in campaigns. Some topics include: media adv...
Distinguishing Advocacy, Lobbying and Education: Tips for Public Health Outreach
This video distinguishes the differences between...
Power Mapping for Public Health Advocacy
This video discusses power mapping in the public health advocacy sphere. Christine Compton of Voices for Healthy Kids shares how to build your capacity to ad...
Communications for Public Health Advocacy
This video addresses how to effectively communicate about public health to a variety of audiences. Speakers in this video offer recommendations and suggestio...
How To Build Partnerships for Public Health Advocacy
This video discusses how to build and sustain partnerships for public health advocacy. Speakers elaborate on their experiences working with multi-sectoral pa...
Confronting Health Misinformation the U.S. Surgeon Generals Advisory on Building a Healby Information Environment
This advisory comes from the U.S. Surgeon General regarding the dangers of health misinformation and ways to combat it. It contains a summary of the ramifica...
Communicating During an Outbreak or Public Health Investigation
This report offers information regarding how to communicate in times of public health crises, outbreaks and investigations. It highlights the necessity for s...
Six Ways to Boost Public Support for Prevention-Based Policy Authors
This journal article discusses how to effectively advocate for prevention-based strategies to solve social problems. It contains a brief background on the di...
The NACCHO Advocacy Toolkit
This toolkit is a comprehensive introduction to governmental affairs advocacy. It offers explanations of different types of engagement, congressional timelin...
Preemption Message Manual
This toolkit discusses the importance of preemption and helps users advocate for local decision-making. It includes audience motivations and concerns, tested...
CDC’S Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
This guide outlines effective communication strategies when discussing health equity. It outlines the various ways in which we can embed health equity concep...
FrameWorks: Framing the Foundation of Community Health
This toolkit contains various suggestions and recommendations on how to discuss public health in varying situations. It includes articles, FAQs, and in-depth...
Advocacy for Public Health
The American Public Health Association provides advocacy resources related to voting, Congressional engagement, policy statements, and resources explaining k...
Connecting the Dots: How to Message the Abuse of State Preemption
This guide is designed for starting conversations about preemption, especially abusive preemption. They provide a comprehensive strategy on how to begin the...
Building Your Advocacy Toolbox: Advocacy vs. Lobbying
This flyer discusses the key differences between health advocacy and lobbying. They provide a description of each action and examples of how they both can be...
State Legislation Addressing Public Health Emergency Authority
This repository contains data on legal threats to public health authority beween January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022. The six available data sets concern state...
‘It’s a Tsunami’: Legal Challenges Threatening Public Health Policy
This articles discusses the various court orders that diminished public health authority surrounding mask and vaccine mandates. The authors discuss the poten...
Becoming Better Messengers
This website contains various resources and tools that relate to effective messaging in public health environments to create meaningful dialogue. The website...
The Collaborative on Media and Messaging: Focus Areas
This website provides health policy communications support. The repository contains information on several health communications focus areas, including the i...
FrameWorks: Government
This website discusses how to approach communication oriented around the government and policy. It contains various articles, reports, and toolkits on how to...
What is Public Health Authority FAQ
This website provides an introduction to public health authority, including key definitions and explainations of public health concepts, threats to public he...
FrameWorks: Human Services
This website discusses human services and how to communicate about them. The website contains various toolkits, reports, and recommendations on how to approa...
FrameWorks: Evidence-Based Policymaking
FrameWorks provides a resource hub for evidence-based policymaking and communications support. The website includes guides and webinars regarding reframing s...
Public Health Advocacy: The Basics
This webinar explains public health authority and legislation related to lobbying and advocacy for public health professionals. The web page includes additio...
Making the Case for Public Health
This webinar includes resources for communicating the importance of public health infrastructure to prevent limits to public health authority. The resource i...
The Public Health Communications Collaborative: Webinars
This series of webinars provides communications training for the public health field. Speakers include state, local, and federal government officials, public...
State Laws Limiting Public Health Protections: Hazardous for Our Health
This report contains an analysis of all state laws that impact public health authority as of May 20, 2022. The laws described in this report relate to the CO...
Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders
This policy brief synthesizes the data depicted in Temple University’s Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders....
Connecting the Dots: How to Message the Abuse of State Preemption, Audience-Specific Message Modules
This guide is an addendum to an existing guide that provides specific strategies on how to facilitate conversations about preemption. This guide provides sug...
2022 End-of-Session Report: ‘Undermining Democracy’
This report showcases certain preemption state laws that were introduced and/or enacted in the 2022 legislative session. These laws relate to public health a...
Campaign Toolkits: Preemption
This guide provides advocacy materials for public health preemption. The resource introduces preemption and provides guides for recruitment, engagement, and...
Community Health Partnerships: Tools and Information for Development and Support
The guide provides a comprehensive framework on how to identify, create, and sustain healthy partnerships. Partnerships between organizations among different...
Fundamentals of Preemption
This fact sheet provides summarizes the main types of preemption and how it operates. The authors provide various examples of preemption to understand how th...
Preemption of Public Health Authority: Communication Toolkit for Organizers
This messaging guide outlines preemption of public health authority, defining preemption, identifying relevant legislation, and sharing messaging guides for...
Help Ensure That Public Health Professionals Can Continue to Protect Community Well-Being
This resource provides a community-level overview of legislative limits to public health authority. ChangeLab Solutions introduces concepts of public health...
State Action on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This data tool provided by the National Conference of State Legislatures culminates and tracks all bills relating to COVID that entered state legislatures. T...
Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
This issue bried is full of curated policies and practices that can be implemented at the local level to promote racial healing and advance racial equity....
50 State Survey: Summary of Enacted Laws and Pending Bills Limiting Public Health Authority: The Second Wave
This resource details COVID-19-related laws and pending legislation, and broader enacted and proposed limitations on public health authority in all 50 states...
Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders
This webpage provides an overview of a longitudinal dataset on the laws that limit the authority of officials and entities for public health emergency orders...
The Governmental Public Health Infrastructure
This chapter of The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century explores the state of governmental public health infrastructure, including the r...