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AIDS, policy analysis, and the electorate: The role of schools of public health

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  • Krieger, N.
  • Lashof, J.C.

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Current debates concerning appropriate policy to combat the epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have raised critical questions regarding the role that schools of public health and individual public health professionals should play, if any, in AIDS-related policy analysis and social advocacy. In the summer of 1986, the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley initiated a telegram sent by the Deans of all 23 schools of public health to protest US Department of Justice AIDS policy and, in the subsequent fall, the school expanded its public educational role in an unprecedented manner by initiating and issuing, with California's other three schools of public health, a policy analysis of Proposition 64, the LaRouche AIDS Quarantine Initiative. That analysis exposed the proposition's fallacious claims regarding casual transmission of AIDS and served to educate the electorate on the likely public health impact of this deleterious legislation. Based on these experiences, and in light of ongoing national controversy regarding AIDS, we believe schools of public health have an important role to play in policy analysis, and individual public health professionals have a role to play in social advocacy.

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  • Krieger, N. & Lashof, J.C., 1988. "AIDS, policy analysis, and the electorate: The role of schools of public health," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 78(4), pages 411-415.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1988:78:4:411-415_7
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