Leadership Series
The PHLS Leadership Series
The PHLS Leadership Series is a three-part teleconference series that is held August through December. PHLS convenes experts from the national, state, and local levels to share their work and experience in addressing emerging and critical public health issues.
The PHLS Education Services Committee is currently in the process of developing the 2009 PHLS Leadership Series. Stay tuned to this page for information on the upcoming Leadership Series calls.
In the meantime, check out the presentations from the previous 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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Speakers:
Garth Graham
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health
US Department of Health and Human Services
Maxine Hayes
State Health Officer
Washington State Health Department
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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Speakers:
Kenneth Olden
Founding Dean
CUNY- Hunter College, School of Public Health
Adewale Troutman
Director
Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness
Lovell Jones
Director, Center for Research on Minority Health
MD Anderson Cancer Center
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 dispariries within their community.
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Speakers:
James Marks
Senior Vice President, Health Group
Robert Wood Johnson Foundations
Anthony Iton
Director & Health Officer
Alameda County Public Health Department
Karen DeSalvo
Vice Dean of Community Affairs & Health Policy
Tulane University School of Medicine
Previous Leadership Series
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 prodives 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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