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M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES, Regina A. Galer-Unti, PhD, CHES, Susan Radius, PhD, CHES and Kathleen R. Miner, PhD, MPH, CHES

M. Elaine Auld, co-chair of the APHA PHEHP Advocacy Committee and a member of the APHA Action Committee, is with the Society for Public Health Education, Washington, DC. Regina A. Galer-Unti, co-chair of the APHA PHEHP Advocacy Committee, is with the Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Susan Radius, chair of the APHA PHEHP Section, is with the Department of Health Science, Towson University, Towson, Md. Kathleen R. Miner, past chair of the APHA PHEHP Section, is with the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to M. Elaine Auld, MPH, CHES, Society for Public Health Education, 750 First St, NE, #910, Washington, DC 20002 (e-mail: eauld@sophe.org).

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We are pleased that public health advocacy was the theme of the August 2003 issue of the Journal. However, we find that several areas need further emphasis.

As noted by Avery and Bashir, speaking truth to power is a right and "the advocate takes this right and makes it her duty."^{1(pp1208, 1209)} All public health professionals should be engaged in public policy reform. Yet the draft of the Public Health Professional’s Oath promulgated by APHA (and absent from this issue) speaks too softly and says too little on public health professionals’ responsibility to engage in policy and social change.²

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