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Recorded Annual Meeting Presentations (RAMP) are now available for purchase.
Only $90 for presenters, $140 for registered attendees and $200 for non-attendees.

Online Program

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Advocacy Research & Policy: The science of persuasion and shaping richer stories for public health


Sunday, November 1, 2015 : 9:45 a.m. - 10:05 a.m.

Scott Burris, JD, Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Advocacy is directed toward making policy change in a political environment. This presentation addresses the research context in the literature that humans make social decisions based more on intuition than on rational decision-making.

Learning Areas:

Advocacy for health and health education
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Explain the research and evolutionary context of how humans make social decisions based more on intuition than on rational decision-making.

Keyword(s): Advocacy

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a faculty member and the Director of Center for Health Law, Policy & Practice at Beasley School of Law at Temple University. I direct the National Coordinating Center for Policies for Action and the Public Health Law Research Program Office. I lead the Policy Surveillance Program developing LawAtlas as the central place for systematically collecting, measuring and displaying laws. I teach a course in my law school program, “The Science of Legal Persuasion”.
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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