The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA

Abstract #64281

Karl E. Umble, PhD, North Carolina Institute for Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Campus Box 8165, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, 919-966-8214, kumble@sph.unc.edu, David Steffen, Dr PH, North Carolina Insitute for Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Campus Box 8165, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, Janet Porter, PhD, NC Institute for Public Health, UNC School of Public Health, CB# 8165, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165, and Steven Hicks, PhD, INTRAH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1700 Airport Road, Suite 300, Chapel Hill, NC 27514.

Since 2001, PHLI has enrolled teams of leaders in a curriculum designed to improve their skills, perspectives, practice, and teamwork. Teams of senior leaders from federal agencies and state and local health departments enroll, and are encouraged to bring partners from community agencies such as a major hospital or not-for-profit organization. A comprehensive evaluation has found that leaders find the curriculum and team project helpful in building teams, perspective, and skill in agency and community leadership. Important leadership practice changes have been reported. This study will also explain leadership development program evaluation methods in use and provide a bibliography of the same, an evaluation arena in need of theoretical and methodological development.

Learning Objectives:

• Learners will be able to:
• 1. Describe evaluation methods used for the National Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI)
• 2. Describe findings about the impact of PHLI on leaders' skills, perspectives, practice, and teams
• 3. Describe features of PHLI that contribute to learners' growth

Keywords: Leadership, Education

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I have a significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.
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