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Health Equity Advocacy Course

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Course Overview

The Health Equity Advocacy course is a 5-month multi-pronged educational intervention that will bring faculty, learners and community members from several institutions together to advocate around common health-related priorities. This innovative course goes beyond didactic instruction and includes experiential learning that will leverage collaboration and, importantly, have tangible outcomes as a result. Participants will learn while doing.

Applications for this course are currently closed. 

Health Equity Advocacy Community Forum

The inaugural Community Advocacy Forum brought together healthcare professionals, learners and community members to build consensus around health-related priorities for advocacy. Watch the highlights here.

Learning Objectives 

  • To train a cohort of engaged health professionals, learners, and community members in advocacy skills around issues related to vulnerable populations.
  • To foster longitudinal working relationships with Institutional Government Relations Offices (Emory, Grady, and other partners), in support of an aligned advocacy mission for vulnerable populations.
  • To promote experiential advocacy with legislators and policymakers around health equity-particularly during the Georgia legislative session but also for longitudinal relationship building with legislators when not in session.
  • To engage in community-based advocacy and community partnerships, learning to work within communities and to be a voice for their expressed concerns.

Eligibility 

All faculty in the School of Medicine are eligible to apply to this course. 

Time Commitment

This course encompasses eight sessions to be held one or two times monthly. Sessions will meet on Tuesday evenings from 5:30-7:30 p.m. and will include dinner. All sessions will be held in the Grady Faculty Office Building in Room 101. Faculty accepted into the program are expected to attend at least 6 of 8 sessions. 

Schedule

Session

Topic

Session 1

Intro to Health Care Policy/Advocacy

 

Session 2

You’re Not Alone: Finding Partners and Building Collaborations for Community & Social Advocacy

Session 3

Selecting Your Issue

 

Session 4

Demystifying Legislative Advocacy: Understanding the Georgia Legislative Session

Advocacy 101-Basics of government and advocacy, committees, branch functions, and getting to know your legislators

Session 5

Advocacy Communication

Advocacy 202-Testifying, influencing a bill, elevator pitches, supporting and blocking legislation

Session 6

Institutional Advocacy: Transforming policies, structures, and practices within your workplace, advancing health equity

Session 7

Applying “Branding” to Your Selected Advocacy Issue

Session 8

Finale Event

 



How to Apply

The application window is closed.

All interested candidates must submit an application form and CV. There is no limit to the number of applications from a department, but final selections will prioritize diverse representation across the School of Medicine and will be limited to 20 faculty. The application form consists of four parts:

  1. Candidate information
  2. Candidate statement (required for all nominations)
  3. Nominator statement (required only for applications supported by a nominator or leader)
  4. Candidate CV (we strongly prefer CVs in the official EUSOM template)

Nominations can be made directly by applicants or by department chairs, division chiefs or other supporting nominators or leaders.

Contact Monique Rainey with questions.

Course Director Information

Jada Bussey-Jones, MD 

Associate Dean of Professional Development, Emory at Grady
Carter Smith, Sr. Professor, Department of Medicine

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Toby Terwilliger, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Ronnye Rutledge, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Faculty Academic Affairs and Professional Development
  • Teaching
    • Learning to Be Better Teachers
    • Faculty Development Program for Clinical Educators
    • 2024 Educator Appreciation Day
  • Clinical Care and Service
    • Interprofessional Team Skills for Quality Improvement
    • Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Course
    • Health Equity Advocacy Course
    • Continuing Medical Education (CME) Courses
    • American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) Portfolio Program
    • 2025 National Doctors' Day
  • Research
    • Researcher Survival Skills
    • Clinical Research Bootcamp
    • Clinical Research Mentoring Program
    • Speed Networking
    • 2024 Researcher Appreciation Day
  • Career Development
    • New Faculty Orientation
    • Professional Development Lecture Series
    • Transition to First Faculty Position
    • Junior Faculty Development Course
    • Advancing Success through Coaching, Equity, Networking, and Development (ASCEND) Program
    • Collaborative Learning Communities
    • Preparing for Retirement
  • Leadership Development
    • New Clinical Leader Development Course
    • Emory Professional Leadership Enrichment and Development Program (EM-ProLEAD)
    • Pathways to Leadership Excellence
    • New Leader Onboarding
    • Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine
    • Woodruff Leadership Academy
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    • Macy Faculty Scholars Program
    • Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine
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Health Equity Advocacy Cohort

The School of Medicine's inaugural Health Equity Advocacy Cohort was established in fall 2022. View this year's cohort using the link below.

View Cohort
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