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PHLS Leadership Series

 

The PHLS Leadership Series is a four-part teleconference/webinar series. PHLS convenes experts from the national, state, and local levels to share their work and experience in addressing emerging and critical public health issues.

Disclosure Statement: CDC, our planners, and our presenters wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters.

Presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.

There is no commercial support from this activity.

 

2010 Leadership Series: The Science, Policy, and Practice of Health Reform

Call #1: The Intersection of Science, Policy, and Practice, An Overview
May 17, 2010

 

The first call will provide an overview of the series, focusing on how science, policy and practice influence and contributes to health refor

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Speakers:
Donna Brown
Governmental Affairs Counsel
National Association of County and City Officials
Lovell Jones
Director, Center for Research on Minority Health
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sharon Moffat
Director, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

 

Call #2: The Science Behing Health Reform: A Look at How Public Health Research Contributes to Health Refom

 

This call will provide an overview of public health research trends and how modern public health research contributes to policy development and the evolution of practice as it relates to health reform.

Speakers:
TBD

 

Call #3: The Policies Behind Transformation

This call will delve into policy development and how advocacy and policy developments are key to acheiving health communityes

Speakers:
TBD

Call #4: Practice Makes Perfect- Developing Public Health Practices that Lead to Healthy Communities

This call will provide examples of current initiatives and efforts to improving public health practice and how it leads to Health Reform

Speakers:
TBD

Previous Leadership Series

 

2008 Leadership Series: Making the Case for Population Health: A Leader’s Guide to Addressing the Root Causes of Health

 

Call #1: Defining and Measuring Health Disparities

 

This call gave participants an overview of health disparities and lead into the discussion of how public health practitioners can evaluate and measure health disparities.

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Call #2: Beyond Healthcare & Prevention- Addressing the Unnatural Causes

 

This call gave participants an insight into interdisciplinary approaches to addressing health disparities beyond access to healthcare and traditional prevention methods.
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Call #3: Unnatural Alliances to Cure Unnatural Causes

This call will focus on the collaboration that public health leadership should make to reduce the unnatural causes of health disparities within their community.
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2007 Leadership Series: Improving Quality on the Public Health Frontline: What Every Public Health Leader Should Know

 

Call 1: Setting the Stage: Quality Improvement on the Front line

 

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Call 2: Advancing Public Health Preparedness and Response Using Quality Improvement Systems—July 2007

 

The second call focuses on the problems and implications of pandemic flu and how the different quality improvement initiatives can be a major tool.
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Call 3: The Role of Public Health Quality Improvement Systems in Addressing the Obesity Epidemic—September 2007

 

This call focuses on the problems and implications of obesity and how the different quality improvement initiative can be a major tool in decreasing the incidence and prevalence of obesity.
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Call 4: Quality Improvement Systems: Implications for Public Health Practice—November 2007

 

On the final call, participants provides an understanding of the tools public health leaders need to create, integrate, and enhance a sustainable quality improvement system into practice.

 

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2006 Leadership Series: Implications of Hurricane Katrina for Public Health Preparedness

 

Call 1: Preparedness and Response Plans

 

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Call #2: Beyond Cell Phone & Walkie-Talkies

 

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Call #3: Mental Health and Disasters

 

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Call #4: Getting It Right the First Time: Policy & the Built Environment

 

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