Policy Briefs With Personality: How to Innovatively Disseminate Evidence for Advocacy

While family medicine physicians, educators, researchers, and trainees offer unique insights capable of informing policy and shaping upstream factors that influence our patients’ health, they receive limited training in how to shape those insights into effective communications for advocacy. One way to influence action around issues that impact clinicians and their patients is through policy briefs. Policy briefs have long been used to disseminate evidence, patient narratives, and policy implications and recommendations, aiming to provide impartial insights to the policy makers.