“…Advocacy is not taught thoroughly in health education professional programs, and this leads to a low self-efficacy regarding advocacy, and creates misunderstandings of what advocacy is, how to go about it, what we can accomplish through advocacy, and why we must advocate.2. 13,33,34 It is time that health educators (and the profession as a whole) embrace advocacy efforts, as advocacy is vital to ensure the advancement of the profession. With regard to this issue, former Surgeon General David Satcher stated, "We must advocate; we must dare to step inside circles that are unfamiliar to us as public health leaders:'35In saying this, it is time that all health educators become involved in advocacy and advocate on behalf of health education, because that is the only way we will advance as a profession.…”