234123 Who, What, and how of Advocating for Public Health

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

Vincent DeMarco, JD, MA , Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public, Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative, President, Baltimore, MD
Based upon the new book by Michael Pertschuk called “The DeMarco Factor,: Transforming Public Will Into Political Power,” this presentation will describe how in several public health campaigns to reduce gun violence and teen smoking and expand health care we successfully advocated before state and local policy makers. The presentation will also describe how we made sure to keep with the federal and state legal requirements for non profits doing advocacy work while at the same time maximizing our work.

Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health education

Learning Objectives:
Explain how to maximize the impact of a broad based coalition on policy makers. Explain how to influence policymakers with public opinion polling. Explain how to successfully and legally raise money to do advocacy and voter education work with non profits. Explain how to best utilize public health data and reports to influence policymakers. Explain how to fully implement public health laws that get enacted.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked for many years on building public support for and enacting into law public health measures to reduce teen smoking and gun violence and expand health care and my work is the subject of a new book by national public health leaders Michael Pertschuk called “The DeMarco Factor: Transforming Public Will Into Political Power.”
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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