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Engaging in the legislative process can pay off to benefit global health programs — even in these difficult fiscal times when Republicans and Democrats are fighting over budgets.

That’s what former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) said Tuesday at a Global Health Delivery Symposium at Harvard Medical School.

“By engagement you can make a difference,” Frist told the audience, which included Paul Farmer, Jeffrey Sachs, Christy Turlington Burns, and several other notables in global health, as well as dozens of professors, doctors, and students.

Frist’s remarks were partially a rebuttal to Sachs’ earlier attacks on the U.S. democratic process and elected leadership (I’ll describe the symposium more in a second post). Frist described the following six tactics the global health community should employ to effectively translate advocacy into policy and funding. Continue reading →