This toolkit was developed for hospital pharmacists. It highlights key components of a successful advocacy campaign, how to get your message across effectively, media relations tips, and practical case studies specific to hospital pharmacists.

This toolkit seeks to support healthcare staff members to participate in social justice advocacy and provides a brief overview of six practical steps for taking action.

Face to face stigma reduction training for healthcare providers was conducted within Canada’s Opening Minds anti-stigma programme. Thirty-seven contact-based education programmes were evaluated to identify the key ingredients associated with attitude change. Table 1 (p. 252) provides a summary of these findings.