![]() ![]() If readers have any particular questions relevant to the original data, the authors will be happy to field reasonable requests as long as we remain within our ethical boundaries, IRB requirements, and informed consent agreements. Any individual extracts of quotes have been deidentified in the paper for this reason. Data that has been aggregated for reporting is in the manuscript. It would also be in contravention to our ethics protocol (especially as related to informed consent agreements). It comprises hundreds of pages of interview transcripts which cannot be made publicly available in the form it is in as it would breach respondent privacy and confidentiality. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: Our paper is based on identifiable interview data. Received: JAccepted: NovemPublished: March 18, 2022Ĭopyright: © 2022 Jessani et al. PLOS Glob Public Health 2(3):Įditor: Paolo Angelo Cortesi, University of Milano–Bicocca: Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, ITALY This will contribute to alleviating confusion as well as tension leading to more effective engagement and consequently opportunity for evidence-informed decision making in public health globally.Ĭitation: Jessani NS, Ling B, Babcock C, Valmeekanathan A, Holtgrave DR (2022) Advocacy, activism, and lobbying: How variations in interpretation affects ability for academia to engage with public policy. Similarly, government agencies need to provide more flexible modes of engagement. We surmise therefore, that for effective and mutually beneficial collaboration to occur, academic institutions need to align rhetoric with reality with respect to encouraging modes and support for government engagement. Faculty views on support for advocacy were often divergent. Influential faculty factors included: seniority, previous experiences, position within the institution, and being embedded in a research center with an advocacy focus. We found that discordant perceptions about how much activism, advocacy and lobbying faculty should be engaging in, results from how each term is defined, interpreted, supported and reported by the individuals, the School of Public Health (SPH), and government agencies. Data was coded through inductive thematic analysis using Atlas.Ti and a framework approach. This study explores the perceptions of 52 faculty and 24 government decisionmakers on the roles, responsibilities, and restrictions of an academic to proactively engage in efforts that can be interpreted under these three terms. As funders, governments, and academia address the role of research in social impact, the deliberations on researcher activism, advocacy and lobbying have seen a resurgence. “Practice” activities however are viewed as ancillary, despite university emphasis on their importance. Research and teaching are considered core-responsibilities for academic researchers. ![]()
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