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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Successful Leadership Development of Practitioners, Faculty and Students
4288.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Oral
Successful Leadership Development of Practitioners, Faculty and Students
Public health leaders must understand and deal with the complex public health challenges of new and emerging infectious diseases, injury risks, health effects of terrorism, and shifts in economic trends. This session focus on designing effective partnerships for leadership development and preparing public health practitioners for new and/or changing leadership roles. Moreover, the session will demonstrate how public health nurses are developing leadership skills in public health preparedness. Last, in discussing successful leadership development strategies, the outcomes of research on technology to increase access to leadership and management development will be presented.
Learning Objectives: 1. Outline the major challenges for collaborative leadership development initiatives between public health institutions and schools of public health 2. Learn about the methods and achievement in leadership training for public health nurses 3. List the benefits of using multiple and complementary learning methods in a public health leadership development program 4. Discuss technology considerations in supporting a distance DrPH program
Facilitator(s):Daniel Boatright, PhD, FRSH
4:30 PMLearning to lead in public health: A leadership development initiative between the CDC and a school of public health
Ian Lapp, PhD, Ngina Lythcott, DrPH, Destiny Q. Ramjohn, BA
4:50 PMLeadership Institute in Public Health Preparedness: Enhancing the skills of local public health nurses  [ Recorded presentation ]
Melissa Alperin, MPH, CHES, Laura M. Lloyd, MPH, CHES, Margaret Bean, MS, RN, Kathleen R. Miner, PhD, MPH, CHES
5:10 PMRelationship between learning methods and outcomes in the National Public Health Leadership Institute  [ Recorded presentation ]
Delesha L. Miller, MSPH, Karl Umble, PhD, MPH, David Steffen, Donna Dinkin, MPH
5:30 PMPromoting Public Health Leadership Via a Distance Education, Practice-Based Doctoral Program  [ Recorded presentation ]
Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, MS, RD, Ned Brooks, MBA, DrPH, William N. Zelman, PhD, Virginia Wang
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Academic Public Health Caucus
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Health Administration; Public Health Education and Health Promotion
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA