Future of Public Health Leadership Series

Purpose

This series will both provide a solid grounding in the skills and strategies effective preparedness leaders need to master, and explore the future of leadership training in the Northwest. Each of the three nationally recognized experts focuses on a different aspect of leadership, including crisis leadership, global public health leadership in the 21st century, and public health leadership in the Northwest.

Since the 2003 founding of the Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute (NWPHLI) 85 professionals in Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington have developed their collaborative leadership skills through a 12-month, multiple modality (face-to-face, distance learning, project-based) curriculum.

NWPHLI is taking a hiatus from its regular curriculum between May and September 2007 to lead this regional discussion and to provide a framework for examining the future of public health preparedness training leadership training in the Northwest. A re-envisioned NWPHLI is slated to begin in autumn 2007.

Format

This series of three trainings will be held online, using iLinc Web conferencing software. Each session will last one hour.

Each session will be recorded and archived on this Web page. You may need to download the iLinc player from our software and plug-ins page before viewing the iLinc recording.

Intended Audience

The intended audience includes the NWCPHP and our regional partners in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, public health staff involved in workforce development and competency-based training, leaders and managers in public health, and aspiring leaders among public health practitioners.

Instructors

Louis Rowitz, PhD, has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health for almost thirty years, and currently serves as both Professor of Community Health Sciences and as Deputy Director of the Center for Public Health Practice. He is founding director of the Mid-America Regional Public Health Leadership Institute.

Stephanie Bailey, MD, MS, is chief of the Office of Public Health Practice for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has worked on numerous CDC projects, including co-chairing the National PH Workforce Taskforce, serving as a senior consultant for local practice to PHPPO, and serving on the National Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. She has also worked as a county public health medical officer.

Jeremy Sappington, MSPH, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Services. Mr. Sappington teaches organizational management in the Masters in Health Administration Program. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina’s School of Public Health and has 40 years of experience in public health education and organizational development.

Sessions

The initial session covered crisis leadership as it relates to public health preparedness training.
Dr. Rowitz will discuss the relative importance of crisis management for current public health leaders and the importance of developing a communications plan. The second session will discuss what it takes to be a leader and how leadership skills can be taught. The third and final session will apply lessons from the first two sessions to public health leadership training in the Pacific Northwest and to the future of the Northwest Public Health Leadership Institute.

1. Crisis Leadership

• Thursday, June 7, 2007, Noon – 1 pm PDT
• Louis Rowitz, PhD
• Session Slides
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2. 21st Century Global Health: A New Leadership Paradigm

• Monday, July 9, 2007, Noon – 1 pm PDT
• Stephanie Bailey, MD, MS
• Session Slides
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3. Implications for Public Health Leadership in the Northwest

• Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007, Noon – 1 pm PDT
• Jeremy Sappington, MSPH
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