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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Anne M. Witmer, MPH, PACE Louisiana, 2317 Burgandy, New Orleans, LA 70117, 504-945-1531, awitmer@archdiocese-no.org, Holly Tomlin, MPH, Medical Research, VA Medical Center, 1601 Perdido Street 5F123, New Orleans, LA 70146, and Pamela S Gillam, MPA, Center for Health Services & Policy Research, School of Public Health, USC, University of South Carolina, School of Public Health, Carolina Plaza, Columbia, SC 29208.
Turning Point’s Leadership Development National Excellence Collaborative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2000 for four years, is a multi-state collaborative with several national partners. Its mission is to “increase collaborative leadership capacity across sectors and at all levels.” To carry out this mission, the collaborative has conducted extensive research on the effect of collaborative leadership on community health improvement, and how collaborative leaders in public health and other sectors learn collaborative leadership skills. The collaborative posed the following questions: What is Collaborative Leadership? What skills and competencies are needed to be a collaborative leader? What techniques and practices are used to have a successful collaboration? Is Collaborative Leadership taught in leadership development training programs and to what extent? How does Collaborative Leadership link to the 10 Essential Services? To answer these questions the collaborative carried out two surveys of national, state, and local leaders, funded an extensive literature review by Carl Larson, and convened an expert panel in leadership development, including Arthur Himmelman, Marshall Kreuter,DrPH, Reola Philips, Robert Goodman, and Gary Gunderson, DMIN.
Learning Objectives:
Keywords: Collaboration, Leadership
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.