The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #42904

Stephen Noyes Orton, PhD, NC Institute for Public Health, UNC School of Public Health, CB# 8165, Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg., Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165 and Karl E. Umble, PhD, Center for Distance Learning, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health, Campus Box 7400, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, 919-966-8214, stephen_orton@unc.edu.

Reviews individual and organizational outcomes after three years of Management Academy for Public Health, a pilot program funded by CDC, HRSA, Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Includes evaluation data on testing and survey results, individual learner outcomes,and team business plan outcomes.

MAPH develops teams of health professionals for new management challenges in population health. Five hundred managers--in one hundred organic teams--have completed the program.

Learning Objectives:

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• understand the curriculum design and structure of a training program for public health managers; (
• understand several modes of evaluating learning in executive-style education; and (
• understand the impact of action learning on training transfer.

Keywords: Workforce,

Related Web page: www.maph.unc.edu

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.
Relationship: Grant and employment from this organization as internal evaluator.