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
Six-Month Meeting
Location TBD, April 2010
Goals
The goals of the Six-Month Meeting are to provide further opportunity for Fellows to synthesize the application of the ten essential services within the three core functions, and to provide a forum to discuss and critique team cases studies.
Objectives
- Provide a forum which challenges current organizational culture and thinking.
- Use case studies to develop critical evaluation skills relative to leadership action.
- Evolve conceptual thinking relative to the three core functions and ten essential services of public health.
- Incorporate the leadership styles within the Kouzes & Posner framework (enabling the heart, creating a shared vision, modeling the way, challenging the process and inspiring to action) into a personal leadership inventory.
- Develop a leadership network within local, state and regional public health systems.
- Critically evaluate and identify strategies which enhance leadership abilities to carry out the public health core functions.
- Begin the process of selecting a Technical Assistance Project.
- Begin to learn leadership tools for planning and decision making.
Technical Assistance Projects
At the April Six-Month Meeting, each Team will be involved in the selection of a project to complete during Intersession II of the Fellowship Year. This is an opportunity to choose a critical community or state public health issue that a sponsoring agency or Board has been struggling with in recent time. Through a negotiation process, each Team will select one problem to address.
This assignment is designed to facilitate the integration of materials, readings and core functions of public health through practice and application. To facilitate problem identification, each Fellow is asked to provide a problem or issue on which their home agency is involved. The Fellow will need the support from the director of their home agency to allow a MARPHLI Team of Fellows to asssist the agency in the role of an expert technical assistance team — if their problem is selected. At the Six-Month Meeting, each Team will select one of the problems brought by a Fellow in their Team. The Team will then develop a strategy and work plan for the last six months of the Institute.
