Protecting Public Health Authority and Advocacy
TOOLKIT
This toolkit is designed to equip users with resources they need to support an effective advocacy campaign to protect public health. Explore resources including:
- Fact sheets on public health authority
- Communications tools and strategies| Refine your communications to effectively advocate for public health within your networks, communities and with elected officials
- Engaging partners with a variety of differing views
- Legislative and litigation tracking| These legislative and litigation tracking databases and summaries are great resources to look back on trends in the 2022 & 2023 sessions
- Advocacy Strategies
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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 bri...
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, coalit...
Legislative Alerts
This website provides legislative updates from the federal government. The resources are centered around the implications of governmental affairs with state and...
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 various ...
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 advoca...
Distinguishing Advocacy, Lobbying and Education: Tips for Public Health Outreach
This video distinguishes the differences between lobbying, advocacy, and education in a public health regard. It’s important to know the differences in or...
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 advoc...
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 suggestions ...
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 partn...
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 ramificatio...
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 diffi...
The NACCHO Advocacy Toolkit
This toolkit is a comprehensive introduction to governmental affairs advocacy. It offers explanations of different types of engagement, congressional timelines,...
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 la...
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 re...
Advocacy for Public Health
The American Public Health Association provides advocacy resources related to voting, Congressional engagement, policy statements, and resources explaining key ...
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 con...
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 ap...
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 le...
‘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 potentia...
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 co...
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 fr...
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 impo...
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 approach ...
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 healt...
FrameWorks: Evidence-Based Policymaking
FrameWorks provides a resource hub for evidence-based policymaking and communications support. The website includes guides and webinars regarding reframing soci...
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 additional...
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 incl...
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 he...
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 COVID...
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. The...
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 sugges...
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 auth...
Campaign Toolkits: Preemption
This guide provides advocacy materials for public health preemption. The resource introduces preemption and provides guides for recruitment, engagement, and mob...
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 se...
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 they ...
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 off...
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 pro...
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. They...
Vaccinate With Confidence
Vaccine Voices is a website promoting vaccine acceptance by sharing personal stories and experiences related to vaccines. It includes video testimonies, resourc...
Vaccinate for All: Resources for Champions
This set of resources and tools is specifically tailored to increase vaccine uptake and address the main barriers that Hispanic people face in the current healt...
Fighting for Public Health: Findings, Opportunities, and Next Steps from a Feasibility Study to Strengthen Public Health Advocacy
This report summarizes a feasibility study conducted with public health advocates and leaders from 45 organizations. The purpose of this report is to stimulate ...
Monkeypox: What You Need to Know
This webpage provides a compilation of essential information currently known about monkeypox. It includes resources for the public, advocacy purposes, and clini...
50 State Survey: Summary of Enacted Laws and Pending Bills Limiting Public Health Authority: The Second Wave
This lists enacted legislation and pending bills that limit public health power.
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. U...
An Equity-First Approach To Assessing Preemption
The report summarizes an approach for assessing negative and positive effects of preemption on health equity. It outlines a research and advocacy agenda for bui...
QA: Why the United States Needs a New Public Health Workforce
This webpage advocates for a renewed approach to developing public health workforce in the US. Information is provided on an interview conducted by Partners in ...
Explore the Latest in Public Health Workforce Development: The 2021 Public Health Learning Forum
This webpage provides information on the Public Health Learning Forum and its advocacy for the development of the public health workforce in the US. Information...
Choose Healthy Life: COVID-19 Basics Resources
This website provides resources and literature on best practices related to community prevention, vaccination, contact tracing, testing, and treatment of COVID-...
COVID-19 Tribal Advocacy Tools
This advocacy toolkit is intended to support messaging on COVID-19 and related legislation to promote health in tribal communities.
COVID-19: Resources for Indian Country
This data bank provides COVID-19 resources specifically for tribal nations, including advocacy materials, news, and funding opportunities.
Mental Health and COVID19: How the Pandemic Complicates Current Gaps in Care and What Can Be Done
This webinar focuses on the unique challenges for mental health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides an overview of the current advocacy efforts to...
How to Advocate for Good Jobs to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Address Health Inequity with Recent Federal Funding
This toolkit serves as a reference for community-based organizations and other advocates that wish to secure funding to expand the public health workforce in th...
Coronavirus Equity Considerations
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Wellbeing Trust COVID-19 Archives
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