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Am near completion of a one year fellowship offered by the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health. The Academy receives funding for the fellowships (free to participants) from the National Network of Public Health Institutes which is funded, at least in part, for the Centers for Disease Control. Our four person team is one of 20 teams in the second cohort. The program goal is to move, team by team, community by community, toward a model of collective leadership. The concept for this came from the CDC when they recognized that over the last 20 years we have all learned pretty well about how to “collaborate,” which much of the time means mainly “share information to know what each other is up to.” What they think we need to move to “collective leadership” in which turf is maintained (where appropriate) while learning how to “co lead” across sectors on initiatives to improve communities’, and thus the nation’s, health. I lead our four person team as the “academic medical center” person and am joined by the executive director of our regional planning commission, the community engagement person from the United Way, and our state health department’s district director. We began our focus on “hunger” writ large and have evolved to develop “messaging” around food security that can be understood and shared by multiple sectors from business to government to health and human services.
I also recently became a Senior Fellow of the Health Research and Education Trust. HRET is a instrument of the American Hospital Association. Fellows “build upon scholarly efforts and research work of the HRET team, partnering organizations and individuals who support our mission to transform health care through research and education.” I’ve just begun in this role, but have already participated in two small efforts and will be speaking with 60+ senior hospital executives about “population health improvement in a predominantly rural setting” at a meeting in Florida in early March.
No retirement on the horizon.
Hate to say this, but … Go Red Sox!
Penrose
