title: The road to advocacy--searching for the rainbow.
abstract: 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 decision makers 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.
authors.affiliation: The Avery Institute for Social Change, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Byllye
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Avery
authors.forename: Samiya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bashir
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D001213:Asian; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology; D018672:Community Health Planning; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D015980:Public Health Practice; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States