In this one-hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Jennifer Messenger Heilbronner shares strategies for messaging health equity to decision-makers to ensure underresourced communities have access to new programs and funding created by a policy.

Learning Objectives

  • Analyze values that impact decision-makers’ receptiveness to policies that advance health equity and protect vulnerable populations
  • Describe messages that motivate decision-makers to purposefully advance health equity through public policy
  • Identify ways to avoid the reflexive default to “individual responsibility” framing for health issues

Intended Audiences

Local, state, and tribal public health professionals; policy advocates working with decision-makers; health equity advocates

Presenter

Jennifer Messenger Heilbronner, Executive Vice President, Metropolitan Group, Portland, Oregon

Discussion Questions

  1. If you have discussed health equity with policy or other decision-makers, what did you say and what was the reaction?
  2. If you haven’t discussed health equity with policy or other decision-makers, what has prevented you from doing so?
  3. Think about your service area. What populations/geographies in that area have the greatest health or economic need? What proof points could you offer about why new health policies should be implemented there first?

Slides and Resources

 

    Air Date: 
    Wednesday, December 20, 2017, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PST
    Topics: 
    Law and Policy & Ethics
    Vulnerable Populations & Health Disparities
    Format: 
    Webinar
    Duration: 
    1 hour
    Cost: 
    Free
    Series: 
    Hot Topics in Practice
    Competency Domains: 
    Communication Skills
    Community Dimensions of Practice Skills
    Cultural Competency Skills
    Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills
    Policy Development/Program Planning Skills