Establishing effective roles to achieve public health priorities

Our national public health system is facing unprecedented resource constraints.  There are many projects, programs, and other interventions taking place at local and state levels.  Many of these efforts have been asked to do more with less, further compounding challenges faced by the growing burden of planned and unplanned public health issues. This results in difficulties achieving the mission of public health organizations.  This presentation will provide a framework for analyzing specific roles that public health leaders tend to adopt (for example, in driving research, leading surveillance, funding interventions, translating knowledge into practice, convening groups, influencing behind the scenes, and others).  It will highlight how to manage balancing across multiple roles, while also supporting how to identify a manageable number of roles that can be used to achieve impact in public health.