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August 2003, Vol 93, No. 8 | American Journal of Public Health 1207-1210
© 2003 American Public Health Association

PUBLIC HEALTH ADVOCACY FORUM

The Road to Advocacy—Searching for the Rainbow

Byllye Avery and Samiya Bashir

Byllye Y. Avery is the founder of The Avery Institute for Social Change, New York, NY, and of the National Black Women’s Health Project. Samiya A. Bashir, a writer and editor, is the author of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Samiya A. Bashir (e-mail: sistafire{at}mindspring.com).

The essence of public health advocacy is spreading the word—spreading the word to members of one’s community about ways to protect and promote health, and spreading the word to decisionmakers about health policies that need to be enacted.

The authors profile 2 women who spread the word—one who focuses on breast cancer in the Asian American community and one who works in cooperation with churches in the fight against HIV/AIDS in African and African American communities—and discuss the importance of "creating shoulders for others to stand on" in the fight for social change.




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