Building a Community-Centered Public Health Advocacy Training Program for Medical Students.

Context: Public health advocacy is increasingly acknowledged as an essential component of practice in medicine. Medical schools, residency programs, and professional organizations have begun developing curricula in an effort to teach advocacy. This article describes the structuring and evolution of the Dr Pete Dehnel Public Health Advocacy Fellowship, an innovative program prioritizing a community-centered approach to teaching physician advocacy to medical students.

Housing instability among current and former welfare recipients.

Objectives: We examined correlates of eviction and homelessness among current and former welfare recipients from 1997 to 2003 in an urban Michigan community.

Methods: Longitudinal cohort data were drawn from the Women's Employment Study, a representative panel study of mothers who were receiving cash welfare in February 1997. We used logistic regression analysis to identify risk factors for both eviction and homelessness over the survey period.