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Complexity Thinking & Your Capacity to Influence Innovation

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Saturday, November 15, 2014 : 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Angela Hinzey, MPH , ISCOPES, Office of Public Health Practice, GW Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC
Reframe your thinking so you can make a real difference! How, you ask? Consider first how organizational boundaries and expertise silos tend to serve as structures that artificially prevent us from really tackling public health syndemics, or sets of intertwined biological epidemics that are magnified by inequitable social conditions. In other words, the environments we build tend to prevent effective collaboration. The good news is, however, that YOU can do something about that! In this workshop, learn how to dissolve these structures and create innovative work environments from practical success stories! Stretch your brain and increase your capacity for influencing population-level health outcomes. This is the future of public health, so join us now and develop your potential as a true thought leader!

Learning Areas:

Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
explain the theoretical constructs of emergence, self-organization and feedback loops. Identify opportunities for structure modification in their work environment

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the director of ISCOPES for four years, a co-curricular, interdisciplinary, experiential learning program fro graduate health professional students that operates around the constructs of complexity theory, shared leadership, and inter-agency partnerships. I am also co-instructor of GW's graduate course in Public health leadership. Prior to this work, I served as a state level capacity builder of adolescent health focused individuals, organizations, coalitions and community level collaborations.
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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