12.I. Skills building seminar: Making the elevator pitch more effective: how to convince a policymaker in less than 2 minutes

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Window ◽  
European Public ◽  
Health Conferences ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Health Narrative

Abstract Since a number of years, the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), the European Public Health Conferences and other associations, have been working hard to translate the evidence in a such a format that policymakers take notice. For example, the WHO Regional Office for Europe works on 'telling the public health narrative' and provides factsheets and infographics, in order to effectively communicate public health messages to policymakers. At the European Public Health Conference so-called pitch presentations were introduced (at Glasgow 2014), where researchers are asked to present their work in 5 minutes with maximum 5 slides (no animations), as a way to learn to present key messages from research in just a few minutes. EUPHA has organised several skills building workshops on translation of evidence in the past years, including last year's session 'making the elevator pitch work'. Lessons learned during this workshop in Marseille are: Have a clear ask (keep it simple)Appeal to the policymaker's own interests and prioritiesSpell out how action will be beneficial for the policymakerBe aware of upcoming electionsBuilt a relationship with the assistants of politicians Following the great interest in last year's workshop, this workshop will complement the outcomes of the 'lessons learned' with additional tips for convincing a policymaker. The list of lessons learned will be expended by reflecting on models of knowledge translation. Models of knowledge translation and evidence informed policymaking are abundant. Some key aspects that can be added to the list are: considering the 'policy window', making the comparison with the policy plans, identifying the relevant stakeholders and groups affected by the problem. In this skills-building workshop, we will select a number of abstracts that have been accepted by the International Scientific Committee as posters and we will invite the presenting authors to this dare: Present your work and key messages in less than 2 minutes. In order to see whether the policymaker is convinced, we are organising a small panel of policymakers and ask them to give their feedback. Are they interested? Do they remember the key message? And if all goes well, do you get an invitation to come back and present more of your work? Key messages Being able to present your key messages anywhere, anytime is needed. Telling the public health narrative and telling a story are important skills for public health professionals to have.

Knowledge translation and health policy for burden of disease

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
E Pallari ◽  
S T Thomsen ◽  
H B M Hilderink
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Burden Of Disease ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Public ◽  
Disability Adjusted Life ◽  
Life Years

Abstract A key goal of most Burden of Disease (BoD) studies is to support public health policies. However, while the concepts of BoD and Disability Adjusted Life years have been introduced more than 25 years, BoD researchers are still struggling to find better ways to translate their findings and communicate them to the relevant decision makers and other stakeholders. To address this gap, the burden-eu COST Action aims to generate better guidance of the use of BoD metrics in policy-making processes. In collaboration with experts in knowledge translation and risk communication, the Action will compile good practices in knowledge translation and develop a roadmap to integrate knowledge translation in national BOD studies. To support these objectives, collaborations have been established with knowledge translation experts from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, and the European Public Health Association. During an initial meeting of the “knowledge translation” working group, 29 participants identified elements in the pathway from evidence generation to practice that need to be addressed. Building on the outcomes of this meeting and the inputs from the knowledge translation experts, this presentation will introduce the knowledge translation framework, and address some of the challenges in identifying best routes to reach out to the public and policy-makers. Specific emphasis will be placed in profiling the context, actors and processes of each country within the policy triangle, and drawing on best and worst example case studies. Additionally, the process will be discussed to co-create a toolkit or guide for using BoD evidence in policy and practice. The session will conclude with an interaction with the audience to learn about the perceived barriers for implementing knowledge translation within the BoD framework.

scholarly journals Skills building seminar: Making the elevator pitch work: how to convince a policymaker in less than 2 minutes

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Scientific Committee ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Public ◽  
To Come ◽  
Health Narrative

Abstract Since a number of years, EUPHA, the European Public Health Conference and other associations, have been working hard to translate the evidence in a such a format that policymakers take notice. The work by WHO Europe on ‘telling the public health narrative’ or providing factsheets and infographics is an example. EUPHA has organised several skills building workshops on translation of evidence in the past years (e.g. 2018: You say tomatoe, I say tomato). The European Public Health Conference introduced the so-called pitch presentations (at Glasgow 2014), where researchers are asked to present their work in 5 minutes with maximum 5 slides (no animations), a way to learn to present key messages from research in just a few minutes. But what should you do, if you meet your policymaker in the hallway or in an elevator? Can you present your work, including key messages, without slides? And in less than 2 minutes? You should be able to. In this skills-building workshop, we will select a number of abstracts that have been accepted by the International Scientific Committee as posters and we will invite the presenting authors to this dare: present your work and key messages in less than 2 minutes. In order to see whether the policymaker is convinced, we are organising a small panel of policymakers and ask them to give their feedback. Are they interested? Do they remember the key message? And if all goes well, do you get an invitation to come back and present more of your work? Key messages Being able to present your key messages anywhere, anytime is needed. Panelist Anne-Marie Yazbeck Chafea, Luxembourg Contact: [email protected] Ivan Erzen Slovenia Contact: [email protected]

Towards European Modern Societies with Health Systems That Are Able to Add More Years to Life, But Also to Add More Life to Years

2016 ◽  
pp. 228-255
Author(s):  
Androutsou Lorena ◽  
Androutsou Foulvia
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
National Level ◽  
World Population ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Public

The political context in Europe is changing including health. Among the priorities in seeking to influence the future of healthcare is a renewed attachment to health for all, health in all policies and a better coordination between social and health policy. Health issues are by definition international, and Europe has a duty to extend solidarity to the wider world population, in strategy and in delivery. Ensuring equitable access to high-quality healthcare constitutes a key challenge for health systems throughout Europe. The chapter will emphasise the importance of European public health policies. The chapter will offer a real opportunity to address public health areas and values such as right to access to healthcare into the detailed mechanisms of European policy. The chapter will form a tool for health leaders, to enrich their knowledge in the public health spectrum from a European perspective, to support, promote and improve healthcare access at a national level.

scholarly journals Lessons earned and lessons learned: What should be done next to counter the COVID-19 infodemic?

European View ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
Nad’a Kovalčíková ◽  
Ariane Tabatabai
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Manipulation ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

As governments and citizens around the world have struggled with the novel coronavirus, the information space has turned into a battleground. Authoritarian countries, including Russia, China and Iran, have spread disinformation on the causes of and responses to the pandemic. The over-abundance of information, also referred to as an ‘infodemic’, including manipulated information, has been both a cause and a result of the exacerbation of the public health crisis. It is further undermining trust in democratic institutions, the independent press, and facts and data, and exacerbating the rising tensions driven by economic, political and societal challenges. This article discusses the challenges democracies have faced and the measures they have adopted to counter information manipulation that impedes public health efforts. It draws seven lessons learned from the information war and offers a set of recommendations on tackling future infodemics related to public health.

scholarly journals Lessons Learned

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 2333794X1557408
Author(s):  
Amanda Phelan ◽  
Michaela Davis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Health Nurses ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comprehensive Service ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Interactional Processes

The public health nurses’ scope of practice explicitly includes child protection within their role, which places them in a prime position to identify child protection concerns. This role compliments that of other professions and voluntary agenices who work with children. Public health nurses are in a privileged position as they form a relationship with the child’s parent(s)/guardian(s) and are able to see the child in its own environment, which many professionals cannot. Child protection in Ireland, while influenced by other countries, has progressed through a distinct pathway that streamlined protocols and procedures. However, despite the above serious failures have occurred in the Irish system, and inquiries over the past 20 years persistently present similar contributing factors, namely, the lack of standardized and comprehensive service responses. Moreover, poor practice is compounded by the lack of recognition of the various interactional processes taking place within and between the different agencies of child protection, leading to psychological barriers in communication. This article will explore the lessons learned for public health nurses practice in safeguarding children in the Republic of Ireland.

scholarly journals Education Program for Health Work “PET-SAÚDE” for the professional formation of dentists: lessons learned in primary care

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Patricia Vitor de Souza ◽  
Ana Maria Lucas Guimarães ◽  
Bruna Bruschi Oliveira ◽  
Daniella Andrade Guimarães ◽  
Mabel Miluska Suca Salas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Student Perception ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Family Health Strategy ◽  
Professional Formation

Objective. The aim of the study was to analyse the results of the PET-SAÚDE/GRADUASUS in dental formation and integration between university, service and community. Method. This study reports the experience of one of the tutorial teams of the PET-SAÚDE/GRADUASUS program. Between June 2016 and April 2017 diagnosis, strategic planning and an intervention were carried out in the community of São Raimundo I Family Health Strategy (ESF) in Governador Valadares-MG.  Educational actions were carried out at the operative groups, home visits, schools and the waiting rooms of the Basic Unit, focusing on priorities of public oral health problems. Results. As results of the educational actions, the over demand of the public health professional decreased. The community benefited by the increase assistance regarding health promotion and prevention actions, motivating an active participation of the population in its own  health-disease process. In the student perception, the knowledge about the health and the public health system was improve, through  the application of theoretical concepts in the reality of health practices, and the acquisition of  capacities and abilities necessaries  for the practice in health. Conclusion. The actions performed as part of the program, promoted positive impacts in the professional formation, benefited the service and the community  and the  integration between them.  ;  

scholarly journals Waterborne transmission of protozoan parasites: A worldwide review of outbreaks and lessons learnt

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Karanis ◽  
Christina Kourenti ◽  
Huw Smith
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Giardia Duodenalis ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Protozoan Parasites ◽  
Blastocystis Hominis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Waterborne Transmission ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

At least 325 water-associated outbreaks of parasitic protozoan disease have been reported. North American and European outbreaks accounted for 93% of all reports and nearly two-thirds of outbreaks occurred in North America. Over 30% of all outbreaks were documented from Europe, with the UK accounting for 24% of outbreaks, worldwide. Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium parvum account for the majority of outbreaks (132; 40.6% and 165; 50.8%, respectively), Entamoeba histolytica and Cyclospora cayetanensis have been the aetiological agents in nine (2.8%) and six (1.8%) outbreaks, respectively, while Toxoplasma gondii and Isospora belli have been responsible for three outbreaks each (0.9%) and Blastocystis hominis for two outbreaks (0.6%). Balantidium coli, the microsporidia, Acanthamoeba and Naegleria fowleri were responsible for one outbreak, each (0.3%). Their presence in aquatic ecosystems makes it imperative to develop prevention strategies for water and food safety. Human incidence and prevalence-based studies provide baseline data against which risk factors associated with waterborne and foodborne transmission can be identified. Standardized methods are required to maximize public health surveillance, while reporting lessons learned from outbreaks will provide better insight into the public health impact of waterborne pathogenic protozoa.

scholarly journals Training the Public Health Workforce from Albany to Zambia: Technology Lessons Learned along the Way

2010 ◽  
Vol 125 (5_suppl) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward C. Waltz ◽  
Dayna M. Maniccia ◽  
Regina L. Bryde ◽  
Kristin Murphy ◽  
Brett R. Harris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals COVID-19 outbreak: How the public health network could function better in disseminating information and instruction for action: Lessons learned

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Roberta Marković ◽  
Čedomir Šagrić ◽  
Aleksandar Višnjić ◽  
Miodrag Stojanović ◽  
Aleksandra Ignjatović ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
Health Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

The priority for the period of COVID-19 outbreak was to provide fast, well-timed dissemination of information to the general population (especially vulnerable groups) as well to health professionals and professionals from other areas of public life (police, army, local governments, education, and the business sector) on behavior change and prevention measures, in terms of guidance for the current epidemiological situation. At the Public Health Institute Niš, Serbia, we directed activities relying primarily on formal intervention approaches, WHO guidance and on information and knowledge gained at the April 2019 WHO "Emergency Risk Communication training and plan-writing workshop" in Belgrade/Serbia. To define the advantages and disadvantages of the applied method for dissemination of information, we followed the reporting guidance contained in Duncan E and colleagues', Guidance for reporting intervention development studies in health research (GUIDED). Guidelines for treatment and recommendations were disseminated through standard communication channels. A local public health network with a large number of partners from the governmental and non-governmental sector, established in recent years, was a kind of channel for dissemination of materials. We realized that formal intervention approaches should be rapidly improved by better mapping of all population groups, by modern ways of communication, by urgent introduction of digital communication channels such as telemedicine, smart phone engagement and internet applications, in order to educate and exchange information more efficiently and quickly, especially in crisis situations such as COVID-19 epidemics/pandemics.

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