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Recorded presentation

Marion Ceraso, MHS¹, Peggy Ore, MS, RN¹, Peter Layde, MD, MSc², Patrick Remington, MD, MPH¹, and Kirsten Gruebling, MPH, CHES². (1) Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin, 387 WARF, 610 Walnut St., Madison, WI 53726, (2) Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53226, 414.456.4827, kgruebling@mcw.edu

Calls for improved education and training of the public health workforce have emphasized the importance of both leadership development and core public health skill building. State, regional and national public health training programs have generally focused on either leadership or core public health skills, but not both. The Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute is a collaborative effort of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin. This innovative program pairs training and technical assistance in both collaborative leadership and public health skills with team work on community health improvement projects. The intensive, year-long program supports teams from around Wisconsin with tailored face-to-face and distance-based training, technical consultation and coaching as they tackle priority health issues in their communities. The program curriculum uses the social ecologic model as a framework for community health promotion and focuses on skill building in collaborative leadership, community health improvement, evidence-based practice, effective communication, and partnership development. Faculty and team advisors challenge teams to consider multiple determinants of health and spheres of influence as they implement interventions that have the greatest likelihood of making broad and lasting improvements on their community health priority. This presentation, by both a program faculty member and a community participant, will describe the program curriculum, community teams and health improvement initiatives, first-year implementation challenges and successes, and initial program evaluation results.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to

• Describe an innovative program that develops both collaborative leadership and core public health skills through community health improvement initiatives.
• Identify program implementation challenges and successes and key program evaluation findings of an innovative public health training program.
• Explore potential for replicating combined leadership development and community health improvement strategies within a single program.

Keywords: Leadership, Community-Based Public Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation