Briefly define what advocacy means to you.? Briefly explain why you think is advocacy important in public health. ? List and briefly explain at least 1 challenge for advocacy efforts.

Advocacy Assignment
You will visit the APHA main website on advocacy, and watch a short video Click here for website: APHA
Advocacy. Next, review the list of current priorities (Click here for website scroll to bottom to bullet
titled “Check out this handy summary of APHA’s 2022 advocacy priorities” APHA Priority List, and select
an area of interest. Finally, each student will examine effective ways to advocate at the local level for
important issues/populations using the APHA “Speak for Health” website, click here: APHA Speak for
Health. Advocacy
1. Go to this website: APHA Advocacy and watch the short video on advocacy.
Briefly define what advocacy
means to you.?

Briefly explain why you think
is advocacy important in
public health. ?

List and briefly explain at
least 1 challenge for
advocacy efforts.
Identify a population you
would like to advocate for
and briefly explain why.?

2. Go this the following website: APHA Priority List
Briefly explain why or why
not you think the list
accurately depicts what the
advocacy priorities are.?

Provide at least 1 area that is
not on the list that you think
should be and why you think
it should be more prioritized.?

Thinking about the
population you selected in
area 1 of this table, describe
how the list of priorities is
useful or not useful for these
particular individuals.?

3. Go to this website: APHA Speak for Health and review how advocacy can be conducted at a local level.
Briefly describe which of the
methods listed you think is
most effective and why.?

Briefly explain which method
would be the easiest to
implement and why.?
Briefly explain which method
would be the hardest to
implement and why.?

Briefly explain which method
would be most effective for
helping your population of
interest from area 1 of this
table.?