Clarifying Purpose in Public Health Communications

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By Joy Burks, Susan Spencer and Sarah Hamilton Excerpted from O’Dwyer’s Today’s public health advocacy landscape is faced with unprecedented challenges. Rollbacks to prevention and equity programs, ideological attacks on science, workforce reductions and high-level resignations are leaving gaps in leadership and sowing confusion across the health system. The result: Companies, nonprofits, advocacy groups and