PUBLIC HEALTH SPEAKS - PUBLIC HEALTH’S ROLE IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

Public health practitioners using activists who break down the doors and the advocates this approach aim to create alignment and synergy for who walk through and sit at the table so that whatever the sustainable change.2,3 activists are fighting for is put into policy and practice. [...] 4 Q+ A PUBLIC HEALTH SPEAKS: PUBLIC HEALTH’S ROLE IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Q Jonathan – Now that we’ve spoken about some of the benefits, what are some of the barriers Related Resourcesto public health partnering with community organizers? A Monika – I think public health can and should work with community organizers but often they don’t. [...] and community was involved from the initiation of the idea all the way to the delivery and report back. [...] So my question to the field is what are the dynamics at play? Who is in the room and who is missing? ways that we can centre advocacy, take it seriously and And then building bridges — using it as an opportunity to embody it as one of the four roles of public health? assess our relationships and our connections to community organizers. [...] If we are not able to believe in the you are, with the resources you have at this specific time value, the capabilities, the skills, the knowledge and the and place in your life.