Ability to promote and advance the advocacies, programs, policies, and regulations of the local health unit and/or DOH to individuals, interest groups, assigned communities, offices, media outlets, and other clients through various communication channels.

Covers individuals and small groups

• Assists and coordinates in distributing information/awareness campaign materials on health advocacies to individuals, assigned communities, organization, or other interest groups

Involves large groups and employs different strategies

• Initiates health advocacy campaigns through various channels, e.g., social media, radio and television, newsletters, local newspapers, magazines, etc.

• Shares knowledge with others through appropriate communication channels to promote health advocacy

Convinces internal and external clients, and trains them to be advocates too

• Recommends programs and activities that will encourage internal and external clients to be health advocates

• Designs, develops, and facilitates instructional materials to train or orient individuals or groups interested to become health advocates

• Serves as technical resource person on health advocacy programs of the local health units and/or DOH

Sets direction and appropriate strategies of advocacies for each clients

• Plans, develops, and executes programs, policies, and activities that will promote health advocacy to the public

• Works to communicate to staff and other clients including the establishment of advocacy language and the overall goals and objectives of DOH’s health advocacy program

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• 4: Director IV