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Challenges, opportunities, and leadership in public health
Cindy Delgado, DrPH, MPH, CPH1, Jamile Tellez Lieberman, DrPH, MPH2, Jaimie Shaff3, Jeanie Holt, MS, MPH4, Hallie Pritchett, MPH5, Eric Coles6 and Tiffany Eaton, DrPH(c)7
(1)Claremont, CA, (2)Holyoke, MA, (3)Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, (4)Retired, Concord, NH, (5)Isaquah, WA, (6)Tule River Indian Health Center, Inc, Carrboro, NC, (7)Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
Recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, and climate change, have magnified health inequities worldwide and demonstrated the sustainability challenges of the status quo. At the same time, PH WINS 2021 showed the devastating toll the past few years have had on the public health workforce, with nearly one-third of the governmental public health workforce considering leaving their organization in the next year. Public health researchers, practitioners, and policymakers must seize this moment to address health inequity and revolutionize public health leadership in a syndemic reality. In this session, we will discuss leadership during major public health crises over the past forty years, and use hindsight to identify opportunities for improved practice. Using these opportunities, we will invite participants to reflect on the evolution of their own leadership approach, and identify opportunities to reimagine their own practice. This session will introduce a framework for public health leadership grounded in three leadership models—collective, adaptive, and emergent leadership. This framework 1) prioritizes leaders with skills to partner with communities and create meaningful progress towards reducing health inequities; 2) uplifts and includes leaders from the communities who are burdened most by social inequity and 3) facilitates an environment that includes leaders from different fields to engage within public health, recognizing the relevance and impact of non-traditional public health activities on health. Making meaningful progress towards health equity requires not only changing frameworks, but also adjusting daily practice. Following a short lecture reviewing the framework, participants will join small groups and implement the framework in a series of scenarios. The groups will then come together to identify opportunities to transform leadership with collective approaches, and how to apply this to their day to day public health work. For this session, we consider all individuals to be leaders regardless of title or position as we believe all people demonstrate leadership in some way in many aspects of their lives.
Administration, management, leadership Diversity and culture Program planning Public health or related education Public health or related public policy Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
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APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
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Power, partnerships, and community
Jamile Tellez Lieberman, DrPH, MPH1, Hallie Pritchett, MPH2, Cindy Delgado, DrPH, MPH, CPH3, Eric Coles4, Tiffany Eaton, DrPH(c)5, Jeanie Holt, MS, MPH6 and Jaimie Shaff7
(1)Holyoke, MA, (2)Isaquah, WA, (3)Claremont, CA, (4)Tule River Indian Health Center, Inc, Carrboro, NC, (5)Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, (6)Retired, Concord, NH, (7)Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
As the field moves away from paternalistic public health approaches and towards equity-driven approaches centered on power-sharing and collective control, it is critical to analyze and address systems that perpetuate inequity. This requires leaders to consider multiple community ecosystems, and take critical steps to earn community trust that is essential to foster sustainable, meaningful partnerships. This session begins by exploring concepts of power, and the role of power in public health. Power-sharing is an intentional practice that identifies power and privilege and considers opportunities to share and distribute power. We will review common myths and misconceptions about power-sharing in public health, successful initiatives that utilize power-sharing to advance health equity, common challenges and pitfalls, and best practices for putting power-sharing into action. This session will explore power-sharing approaches at multiple levels of public health practice, including administration and management, research and analytics, program planning and implementation, and evaluation. We will then lead participants through a series of small group exercises where they will practice power mapping and consider power-sharing levers that can be implemented in the short- and long-term to bring communities alongside and ultimately to the forefront of public health efforts.
Diversity and culture Program planning Public health administration or related administration Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
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Leading for health equity: Foundation setting for transformation
Hallie Pritchett, MPH1, Jamile Tellez Lieberman, DrPH, MPH2, Cindy Delgado, DrPH, MPH, CPH3, Tiffany Eaton, DrPH(c)4, Jeanie Holt, MS, MPH5, Eric Coles6 and Jaimie Shaff7
(1)Isaquah, WA, (2)Holyoke, MA, (3)Claremont, CA, (4)Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, (5)Retired, Concord, NH, (6)Tule River Indian Health Center, Inc, Carrboro, NC, (7)Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
A critical component of any transformational initiative is foundation setting. As with all equity-driven initiatives, organizations, entities, and even individuals are at different stages of readiness and have different needs. It is critical that public health practitioners engage in transformational efforts to equip themselves with the tools needed to succeed. During this session, we will review some Change Management, Difficult Conversation, and Equity Frameworks and how they can be applied to increase the understanding of the importance of shared goals, coalition building and co-development in the implementation of equitable systems change. These tools can be used to assess the readiness for liberatory transformation and to initiate individual, organizational, and collaborative community-driven interventions and systems change. Practice-based learning will be used to develop these skills.
Administration, management, leadership Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs Program planning Public health administration or related administration Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
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Practicing public health leadership in insecure contexts
Jaimie Shaff1, Jamile Tellez Lieberman, DrPH, MPH2, Cindy Delgado, DrPH, MPH, CPH3, Hallie Pritchett, MPH4, Eric Coles5, Tiffany Eaton, DrPH(c)6 and Jeanie Holt, MS, MPH7
(1)Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, (2)Holyoke, MA, (3)Claremont, CA, (4)Isaquah, WA, (5)Tule River Indian Health Center, Inc, Carrboro, NC, (6)Drexel University, Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, (7)Retired, Concord, NH
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo
In recent years, the world has seen a reaction to progress made in prior decades. Advancements in acceptance and inclusion have been met with hate-based legislation, increased access to rights has been met with legislative roll-backs, and system-wide efforts to acknowledge and address root causes of health inequities have been met with system-wide efforts to rewrite and conceal the realities of our history. At the same time, we are seeing renewed emergence of vaccine-preventable diseases, low uptake of evidence-based health strategies, and population-wide behavior changes resulting from the politicization of public health. The insecure contexts public health workers must face today are not unknown to this field: in fact, supporting populations navigating environments absent of safety was part of the job, and continues to be part of routine operations in many global contexts. This moment requires the field to rapidly adapt our knowledge, attitudes, and practices. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so eloquently stated, “We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” In this session, we will review critical moments in public health that require an adaptive approach, discuss recent policies requiring us to adapt today and consolidate the knowledge we have on health inequities to identify opportunities to continue to advance health equity within insecure contexts. This session will conclude with an experiential learning activity, where participants will consolidate the knowledge gained during this session to address a public health challenge for a population in their community experiencing an extreme absence of safety.
Assessment of individual and community needs for health education Diversity and culture Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs Program planning Public health administration or related administration Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
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APHA 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo