MARPHLI - Current Curriculum, Year 18
The Role of Public Health in an Era of Health Reform
Kick-Off Conference | Six-Month Meeting | Twelve-Month Meeting
Kick-Off Conference
October 19-22, 2009
Hyatt Lodge
Oak Brook, IL
Draft Agenda (YR 18 Agenda available soon)
The goals of the Kick-Off Conference are to provide the stimulus to develop leadership effectiveness in public health within the paradigm of the three core functions and ten essential public health services. Leadership assessment instruments will identify a baseline personal inventory, and assist the Fellow in developing a plan for personal leadership growth and development. Cutting edge public health issues will be presented by nationally-recognized public health experts.
Objectives
- Provide an introduction to the Leadership Institute.
- Translate theoretical and conceptual frameworks of leadership development into an individualized style of practice.
- Broaden understanding of models of effective leadership within public health.
- Begin a networking process among Fellows and Mentors.
- Broaden understanding of integrated systems of health through collaborative partnership.
- Begin the process of negotiating a case study topic.
- Better understand the application of the core functions to community health and systems thinking.
Case Studies
During the October Kick-Off Conference, each Team will be reviewing three public health case studies, each of which explores one of the core functions of public health. During the Kick-Off Conference, you will be introduced to the MARPHLI Guidelines and Protocol for Case Study Development. From the conclusion of the Kick-Off Conference until the end of February of the following year, each Team is to develop its own case study.
The case study should be based on a core function of public health and related essential services and performance standards. Demonstration of leadership practices should be included in a Teacher's Guide for Discussion at the end of the case study.
The objective of this assignment is to create, through a fictionalized real life public health problem situation, an opportunity for Fellows to incorporate the concepts introduced to them during the October Kick-Off Conference. This critical thinking and problem solving exercise is utilized by the Leadership Institute as an educational strategy to promote the integration of public health leadership ideas and concepts through practice.
At the Six-Month Meeting, a panel discussion will be held at which Team members will summarize and present the case. A discussion will follow on the relevance of leadership as a mechanism for addressing core functions and better affecting the outcome of the problems which public health professionals address.
