173122 Academic and state collaborative models in maternal and child health (MCH) leadership development and education

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 10:30 AM

Jeanette H. Magnus, MD, PhD , School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Joan Wightkin, DrPH , Maternal and Child Program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans, LA
Paula D. Zeanah, PhD, MSN, RN , School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Lyn Kieltyka, PhD, MPH , MCH Program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, Metairie, LA
Tri Tran, MD, MPH , MCH Program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, Metairie, LA
Mary Craig, RN, MSN, MS , MCH Program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, Metairie, LA
Karis Schoellmann, MPH , School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Jennifer Hixon, MPH , School of Public Health, MCPHLT, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Shokufeh M. Ramirez, MPH , School of Public Health, MCPHLT, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  
The Tulane MCH section has an extensive ongoing collaboration with the Louisiana Title V program across the spectrum of MCH issues. The federal MCH Bureau's Division of Research Training and Education selected the Tulane program as a model program for its presentation at the 2007 Federal/State Partnership Meeting. The primary collaborating programs are Tulane's MCH section and Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the State Department of Health's Nurse Family Partnership program, Fetal Infant Mortality Review program, MCH Epidemiology program, Partners for Healthy Babies program, and Louisiana PRAMS program.

In times of tight budgets, persistent reorganization and staff turnover, these unique partnerships can provide tools for building and sustaining MCH leadership capacity. Collaborative activities have benefited both organizations. Close and formal affiliation with the state's Title V program has a led to an increase in the number of MCH MPH graduates working in MCH around the state where there is a dire need for public health professionals. By providing consultation and technical assistance to governmental and nonprofit public health agencies on MCH-related topics Tulane MCH has created opportunities to develop leadership, mentoring and advocacy skills in students and Title V staff. The MCH Community Advisory Committee has been instrumental in providing guidance on the development of the MCH program, including training, evaluation, and mentoring. This presentation will provide participants with an opportunity to explore how MCH practitioners can partner with academics to achieve common objectives.

Learning Objectives:
Describe how partnerships with MCH training programs, and other academic institutions, can help you achieve MCH goals. Identify 3 models of collaboration between MCH practice and academia. Identify strategies that you can pursue at home to develop Title V/academic partnerships.

Keywords: Partnerships, Leadership

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am actively involved in the program partnership described.
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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