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David Steffen, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Heatlh, Campus Box 8165, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, 919.843.5567, dsteffen@email.unc.edu and Sharon Howard, BA, MSW, Assistant Secretary Office of Public Health, Louisiana Office of Public Health, Office of Public Health, 325 Loyola Ave.; Room 513, New Orleans, LA 70112.

The National Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI), a year long leadership development program designed for teams of 2-4 senior public health leaders and funded by CDC, is using the United Health Report as part of its curriculum. Leadership is viewed by PHLI as involving an iterative cycle of action, reflection, learning and improved action. Thus, use of a report card that emphasizes action for health, “A Call to Action for People and their Communities. America’s Health: State Health Rankings,” is a natural tool for public health leadership development.

One distance learning event and a follow-up on-site learning activity have been used in PHLI to learn more about the United Health State Health Rankings and its potential leadership implications and opportunities. A conference call hosted by a guest expert involved in evaluating and modifying the rankings and a face-to-face discussion of the rankings by an interested subset of the class have discussed aspects of the report including suggested modifications in the report’s indicators that would make it more actionable. This presentation will review the methods used by PHLI to introduce and discuss the State Health Rankings and its leadership implications. The use of the report in several states, including leadership challenges and opportunities it has fostered, will be described with a special emphasis given to the experience in the state of Louisiana.

Learning Objectives:

• Learners will be able to list leadership challenges the State Health Rankings have posed to state and local public health leaders
• Learners will be able to list facilitators and barriers to state and local public health leaders using the Rankings to promote public health
• Learners will be able to list suggested modifications to the State Health Rankings made by local and state public health

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.

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