Deadline: 3-Oct-22
Applications are now open for National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health (NLAPH) Cohort 12 to provide training to four-person multi-sector teams from across the country to advance their leadership skills and achieve health equity in their community.
Goals & Objectives
- LAPH drives the adoption of evidence-based policies and practices into communities, better aligns community health resources, and ultimately improves health outcomes through sustainable policy and systems change.
- Provides ongoing training and support to leaders who work across multiple sectors to address community health issues.
- Improves the leadership team’s capacities to apply continuous quality improvement methodology to their work, measure progress of the projects, and document the impact of leadership development.
- Builds and supports the development of a community of multi-sector leadership learners using online technology and social media tools that will contribute to community health improvement goals and influence policy change.
Benefits
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NLAPH fellows receive training and support to increase mastery of individual and team leadership skills, in order to increase impact in the community. Their evidence-based program will help you:
- Develop the necessary leadership skills to navigate uncertainty and manage change.
- Work more effectively with multi-sector partners.
- Learn how to use data to tell your story, plan, evaluate, and monitor impact.
- Refine systems and processes with Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI).
- Co-design programmatic and policy solutions in collaboration with community members.
- Communicate your impact and influence policymakers.
- Create sustainable change.
Eligibility Criteria
- NLAPH is only for teams based in the US and US territories, including American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.
- Must be a multi-sector team of four individuals.
- Teams should already be working together, addressing a community priority. Some teams might be subsets of an existing coalition or larger working group.
- One team member must be from the public health department.
- Team members should include multi-sector leaders who can help advance the group’s goals.
For more information, visit NLAPH.
For more information, visit https://leadershipacademy.health/programs/overview