Week 4: Thinking like a Movement -- Power

Key questions:

What can we learn about KT by "thinking about power?"

Generating a Theory of Change: Who has the power to make the change prescribed by the evidence?

Generating Tactics: We are organizing Who to What End through How by When?

Course material this week contributes to the following Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) recommended core competencies:

ASPPH Competency Bullet 3: Systems thinking regarding the dynamic interactions among sectors, organizations, and actors with which public health professionals interact to achieve health improvements, drawing (from ASPPH Competency Bullet 1) on the history and philosophy of public health as well as its core values, concepts, functions and leadership roles.

ASPPH Competency Bullet 9: Approaches to advocating for public health policies; familiarity with ethical and economic dimensions of health care and public health policy.

ASPPH Competency Bullet 6: Identification and pursuit of opportunities for promoting health and preventing disease across the life span and for enhancing public health preparedness.

ASPPH Competency Bullet 10. Public health-specific communication and social marketing, and the use of mass media and electronic technology.

ASPPH Competency Bullet 11. The cultural context of public health issues and respectful engagement with people of different cultures and socioeconomic strata.

Readings

Ganz, Marshall, et al. "People Organizing: Power & Change. Participant Guide." Dogwood Initiative, Stonehouse Institute, Desmog Canada, Leading Change Network. Pages 36-59, with a particular focus on 36-50.

Ganz, Marshall. 2005. "Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements." In The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research, edited by David M Messick and Roderick M Kramer, Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates Inc, pp. 209-238. Available at: http://marshallganz.usmblogs.com/files/2012/08/Why-David-Sometimes-Wins-Strategic-Capacity-in-Social-Movements.pdf Links to an external site.

Chambers, David A, et al. 2013. "The dynamic sustainability framework: addressing the paradox of sustainment amid ongoing change." Implementation Science 8:117.

CLASS SLIDES Download CLASS SLIDES

In class activity: Ganz et al, pp 46-50, and 56-58. Developing a theory of change to contribute to the Gen Squeeze population health intervention and knowledge mobilization campaign, and for your selected KT topic. *Students will begin to design their KT activity. See "20 Questions" that are Assignment 1. This work in class will contribute directly to Assignment 1 due October 16.