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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Kate Wright, EdD, MPH, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, 3545 Lafayette Ave., Suite 300, St. Louis, MO 63104, 314-977-8120, wrightks@slu.edu and Leslie Boydell, Associate Director, Institute of Public Health in Ireland, Purdys Lane, Belfast, Ireland.
Demands for public health training networks and professional development have grown, both in the Unites States and abroad, due to increased involvement of the private sector, the changing role of the public health sector, and the challenges of retraining the public health workforce. Collaborative efforts among the international academic, practice, government, and community sectors are required to expand the fraction of the public health practitioners who receive needed education and training. The National Public Health Leadership Development Network is comprised of academic and practice representatives of state, regional, national, and international public health leadership programs. Leadership programs are currently available or being developed in forty-two states, as well as nationally, and in numerous countries across the globe. These leadership programs are dedicated to meeting the local grassroots needs by developing and enhancing individual and organizational leadership and management for improving and promoting the health of communities. During this session, national and international Leadership Institute representatives will address their efforts in building and implementing a leadership institute, including the use of a competency framework and information regarding the underlying curriculum and curriculum delivery methods used to address these competencies. They will discuss the leadership challenges faced by their public health systems; how their leadership curriculum reflects these public health challenges; and, the skills all public health leaders will need to meet emerging issues.
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Keywords: Leadership, International
Related Web page: www.slu.edu/organizations/nln
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.