Education

Join us for a two-term course series designed to give practical skills, knowledge, and insight for successfully advancing health policies in these tumultuous times. Gain skills in identifying target policy asks, developing reports to gain media coverage, delivering public testimony, conducting media interviews, and meeting with legislators.

The Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy and the de Beaumont Foundation, in partnership with other national and state public health organizations are launching the Public Health Advocacy Consensus Task Force (PH-ACT), which will: 

1. Gain consensus on the definition of public health advocacy;  
2. Identify the essential advocacy skills needed to operationalize it; and   
3. Draft guidance that could help schools and programs. 

The Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy hosted a one-day session that offered practical insights, knowledge, and skills to enhance influence with decisionmakers at all levels, from city councils to international governing bodies. Read more about the Summer 2024 Advocacy Action Lab here.

Certificate program coursework will allow students to engage deeply with core theories and skills in public health advocacy, and to augment these with an understanding of how to apply these in a variety of policy and geographic settings. The certificate program will complement students’ options for training in public health policy making with theoretical and practical insights into the role of advocacy in this process.