This module has focused on empowering you as a health policy analyst and advocate. Your readings have included instructions on how to write a policy brief and on policy analysis. Your task is to write your own health policy brief using those instructions.
Instructions
- Carefully read How to Write a Health Policy Brief and Policy Analysis.
- Decide what issue to write your policy brief on. In deciding what issue to address, it may be helpful to consult examples from the Policy Briefs from the AANP and the NRHA Policy Papers.
- Write a health policy brief of 550–750 words in length on the issue of your choice. Base your brief on the instructions and examples provided.
- American Association of Nurse Practitioners. (n.d.). Policy briefs. https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/advocacy-resource/po...
National Rural Health Association. (2023). NRHA Policy Papers. Rural Health. https://www.ruralhealth.us/advocate/policy-documen...
Office of Policy, Performance, and Evaluation. (2022, September 27). Policy analysis. CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/policy/polaris/policyprocess/p...
Wong, S. L., Green, L. A., Bazemore, A. W., & Miller, B. F. (2017). How to write a health policy brief. Families, Systems, & Health, 35(1), 21–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/fsh0000238