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CDC’s Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Annual Grantee Meeting – 2009

Public Health Policy: Challenges and Opportunities

  • Anita Holmes, JD, MPH, North Carolina Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program
  • Nicole Blair, MPH, Policy Team Lead, CDC Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
  • Mary Lou Woodford, RN, BSN, MBA, CCM, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
  • Moderator: Liza Veto, MSW, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Session Objective

The objectives for this session are to:

  • Explore the concept of aligning their efforts with broader policy or social movements to capitalize on existing momentum and extend the reach and effectiveness of their efforts.
  • Learn about two specific policy intervention strategies that further the mission of HDSP through partnership and collaboration.

Session Summary

This session highlights strategies for furthering policy objectives in priority areas (heart attack and stroke, hypertension) by recognizing and capitalizing on external opportunities.
Tapping into broader issues outside the direct purview of the HDSP program enables us to leverage our work and as well as our limited resources to further our policy interests.

The first presentation provides an example of how a state HDSP program is partnering and pooling their resources to document the impact and effectiveness of new state legislation once it takes effect, thereby laying the groundwork to protect the law from future repeal, and to further the case for passage in neighboring states.

The second presentation highlights a WISEWOMAN program impacted by health reform and the proactive steps they took to strategically position themselves to grow in this new environment.

 

 
 
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