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Achieving collective impact through multi-sector leadership development for the public's health


Monday, November 4, 2013 : 12:30 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Carmen Rita Nevarez, MD, MPH, VP External Relations and Director Center for Health Leadership and Practice and Practice, Public Heath Institute, Oakland, CA
Karya Lustig, MA, Center for Health Leadership and Practice, Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA
     
Background Today's context for public health leadership is complex, rapidly evolving, and calls for new approaches to the development of leaders for today and the future. “We need to train our leaders to be more collaborative, to be more inclusive, and to have greater integrity. It's a whole different set of practices .” The Center for Health Leadership and Practice (CHLP) has an innovative approach to leadership development that brings together teams of leaders from multiple sectors that want to advance their leadership skills and achieve health equity in their community.

Model CHLP trains interdisciplinary, multi-sectoral teams in an applied, team-based, and collaborative leadership development model. Using experiential learning, an applied health leadership project is the primary vehicle for leadership learning. The core curriculum is based on five competencies: Leadership Mastery; Ability to work effectively across sectors; Application of continuous quality improvement principles; Appropriate use of data for planning, assessment, monitoring and evaluation; and Commitment to a population health perspective. The work throughout the year is divided into four phases that each includes leadership themes: 1) inspiration; 2) ideation; 3) implementation and growing; and 4) sustaining and transition . A team coach focuses on deepening core concepts.

Lessons Learned • Rigorous CQI processes inform cutting edge program development • Developing capacities of interdisciplinary, multi-sector teams of leaders to work and lead across sectors improves their ability to successfully navigate today's complex environment for achieving collective impact.

Learning Areas:

Administration, management, leadership
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Define elements of successful intersectoral leadership practice Compare leadership needed for achieving collective impact versus traditional change approaches Describe an approach to leadership development for multi-sector teams doing population health improvement to advance health equity in their community

Keyword(s): Leadership, Collaboration

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am Director of the Center for Health Leadership and Practice that is currently training over 200 public health professionals in collaborative leadership skills.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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