Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #119650

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

The Network has served an important role for the last 12 years as a forum for helping to expand, build, and refine state, regional, national, and international leadership programs. The Network's role in facilitating the development of strategies and methods to tackle challenges of public health interest through strengthened leadership development is critical. This session will focus on the leadership methods and models which can be used or developed to adress challenges public health practitioners will face in the future.

Learning Objectives:

• Discussion of the challenges public health practitioners face in today's world. Understand various strategies, used to tackle issues such as workforce development for the future. Learn about the emergence of new leadership techniques used to train the workforce.

Keywords: Leadership,

Related Web page: www.slu.edu/organizations/nln

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.