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From Patients to Policy: 5 Ways to Put Health Advocacy into Action

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About this course

Health advocacy is an essential professional skill that enables health professionals to improve the health of patients, communities, and populations. This presentation will provide participants with a practical framework for understanding health advocacy and identify meaningful ways to incorporate advocacy into their professional roles. Participants will begin by defining health advocacy and exploring how it can occur at multiple levels. Concrete examples will help clinicians recognize opportunities for advocacy in everyday practice. The presentation will also highlight ways health professionals can use advocacy to promote accurate, evidence-based information and counter misleading claims that affect patients and public health. The session is designed to leave participants with greater confidence to engage in advocacy across multiple settings.

Learning Objectives

  • Define and give examples of health advocacy.
  • Identify challenges to engaging in health advocacy.
  • Recognize opportunities to advocate against misinformation.
  • Describe ways to engage in legislative advocacy.

Target Audience

This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.

Course Instructor(s)

  • Katherine Gershman Kennedy, M.D.

    Katherine G. Kennedy, MD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine where she directs the Yale Legislative Advocacy Program, co-leads the Advocacy Track for the Health Equity Curriculum, serves as Faculty Co-Leader of the Psychotherapy Distinction Track, and supervises psychiatry residents in psychotherapy. She is a board-certified adult psychiatrist with a private practice in New Haven, Connecticut.

    Outside of Yale, Dr. Kennedy is the Chair of the Legislative Committee for the Connecticut Psychiatric Society and Section Co-Editor of “Voices in Advocacy and Policy” for Psychiatric News, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association (APA.) From 2020-2024, she chaired the APA Council on Advocacy and Government Relations. In addition, Dr. Kennedy chairs the Committee on Psychotherapy for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) and serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Psychotherapy and APA Publishing Books.

    Dr. Kennedy has presented at national conferences and published on advocacy, psychotherapy, and supervision, including two books, “Supervising Individual Psychotherapy: The Guide to Good Enough” (2023) and "A Psychiatrist's Guide to Advocacy" (2020.) Elected to the American College of Psychiatrists in 2020, Dr. Kennedy was awarded the CT Psychiatric Society's Outstanding Service Award in 2024, the New Haven County Medical Society’s Distinguished Service Award in 2024, and the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award in 2017.

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References

  • Agrawal, N., Lucier, J., Ogawa, R., & Arons, A. (2023). Advocacy Curricula in Graduate Medical Education: an Updated Systematic Review from 2017 to 2022: Agrawal et al. Journal of general internal medicine, 38(12), 2792-2807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08244-x
  • Agrawal, N., Lucier, J., Ogawa, R., & Arons, A. (2023). Advocacy Curricula in Graduate Medical Education: an Updated Systematic Review from 2017 to 2022: Agrawal et al. Journal of general internal medicine, 38(12), 2792-2807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-020-01179-z
  • Watling, C., Sandomierski, D., Poinar, S., Shaw, J., & LaDonna, K. (2024). The courage to advocate: how two professions approach public advocacy work. Medical Education, 58(11), 1361-1368. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15430
  • Whelan, A. M. (2023). How Should State Licensing and Credentialing Boards Respond When Government Clinicians Spread False or Misleading Health Information?. AMA Journal of Ethics, 25(3), 210-218. https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2023.210
  • Zhang, S., Zhou, H., & Zhu, Y. (2024). Have we found a solution for health misinformation? A ten-year systematic review of health misinformation literature 2013–2022. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 188, 105478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2024.105478

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    To complete the course, review the course objectives, then watch the video power point presentations following along with the corresponding pdf, and lastly complete an evaluation. Your certificate will be available to download immediately when you complete the evaluation. Note that you can not continue in the course until you complete the previous section.
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