Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine

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Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine Developing an Advocacy Strategy for the STI/HIV Public Health Special Interest Group Dr Breda Cosgrove Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine SSSTDI Spring Meeting 9th April 2016

STI/HIV Public Health Special Interest Group Established in 2007 25 members Specialists in Public Health Medicine and Surveillance Scientists 8 Depts. of Public Health & Health Protection Surveillance Centre Hse hpsc logos Sth re PH No in group

STI/HIV Public Health Special Interest Group Aims To characterise and work to reduce the burden of STIs and HIV in the population To provide a national public health forum for sharing expertise on the prevention, surveillance and control of STIs and HIV Meet every 6 - 8 weeks Governance Reports to Public Health Medicine Communicable Disease Group Hse hpsc logos Sth re PH No in group

Why develop an Advocacy Strategy for the SIG? Advocacy = “Active Support”1 Core competency of Public Health Medicine Agreement that SIG well-placed to advocate Terms of Reference “To advocate for STI and HIV prevention, surveillance and control” Leads: Dr Caroline Mason Mohan & Dr Breda Cosgrove 1. Collins English Dictionary Complete & Unabridged 10th Ed 2010

Advocacy Strategy Development Workshop 22nd October 2015 in HPSC Half - day Facilitated 11 specialists & surveillance scientists Output of the workshop would form basis of advocacy strategy & action plan

Advocacy Strategy Development Workshop Presentation “The Irish Policy Context for Sexual Health” Changing landscape in Ireland Previous Sexual Health Policies & Strategies National Sexual Health Strategy – published the following week 4 group discussion & feedback sessions Key Issues in Sexual Health Key Stakeholders Key Messages Key Actions

Advocacy Strategy Development Workshop Session 1 “From your experience, what do you feel are the key issues in sexual health?” Session 2 “ Thinking about the key issues you have identified, who are the key stakeholders?” Prioritisation Exercise Identify 3 most important issues and 3 most important stakeholders

Advocacy Strategy Development Workshop Session 3 “What are the key messages we want to get out to stakeholders?” Session 4 “Thinking about the morning, what are we already doing and what can we do in the future, to advocate effectively in the field of sexual health?”

Advocacy Strategy Development Workshop Participants recorded notes on flipcharts Following workshop, transcribed flipchart & facilitators’ notes & results of prioritisation exercise circulated Feedback from members Themes developed

Emergent Themes Public Health is well-placed to advocate to improve sexual health in Ireland Closer links should be forged with key stakeholders Quality-assured data to which we have access should be more widely disseminated STI/HIV prevention, surveillance and control among MSM should be prioritised Support for National Reference Laboratory for STIs Support for integrated model of care for STI services

Action Plan 2015-16 Action Lead Timeframe Status 1 Submit abstract describing Advocacy Strategy Development Workshop to Autumn Meeting of SSSTDI BC & CMM 26th October 2015 Abstract accepted for Spring Meeting of SSSTDI in April 2016 2 Publish article relating to sexual health in Epi-Insight at least quarterly All By end 2016 Article on provisional data on STIs 2015 in April edition 3 Invite key persons from Crisis Pregnancy Programme to speak to SIG DI 4 Contribute to sexual health communication activities e.g. SHAG week through SIG representative on National Sexual Health Strategy Communications Working Group FC 5 Acquire access to online training resources relating to sexual health for SIG DI & FC 6 Collate available information sources on sexual history taking, with the view to distributing this to relevant persons BC 7 Provide input from a Public Health perspective into content of Sexually Transmitted Infections Foundation (STIF) course AK & FC 8 Develop a position statement supporting the establishment of a National Reference Laboratory for STIs CMM & MF 9 Appoint SIG representative to RCPI Advocacy Committee

Action Plan Outline of planned active engagement of SIG in advocacy activities for coming year Lead persons & timeframes specified One-year timeframe Review at end 2016

Conclusion Consensus that group has contribution to make as advocates Workshop provided a foundation upon which to build advocacy strategy & action plan Worthwhile process