Community-Based Policy Development: Lessons from the Field

Merrill Eisenberg will help public health advocates understand the policy making process at the state and local levels and to use this understanding to plan policy action to benefit the public’s health.

Learning Objectives:

This training was create to assist public health workers navigate policy change. At the end of this training, learners should be able to:

• Distinguish between public health and health care policy.
• Describe the policy process in local policy making.
• Define the “Three Streams” theory of policy making.
• Determine potential policies to address community health problems.

Target Audience:

Community Health Workers, Food System Workers, Policy Advocates and Policy Makers

Duration: 32 minutes

Format: web based/self study

Continuing Education: 0.5 Category 1 CHES Credits, 0.5 Continuing Competency

Created/updated: 10/2017; 2/2020

Author and Presenter: Merrill Eisenberg