The National Leadership Academy for the Public's Health builds essential leadership skills for healthy and equitable communities
leadership. A strong program or initiative without a strong leader and leadership buy-in cannot achieve its goals. Leadership can manifest in many different ways and sometimes comes from unexpected people or entities who have a commitment and passion for the work.
For nine years, CCHE has been partnering with the Public Health Institute’s Center for Health Leadership and Practice to evaluate its National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health (NLAPH). NLAPH is designed to build leadership capacity and strengthen multi-sector
collaboration for community health initiatives throughout the United States. Using skills and tools learned through NLAPH, participants are better able to support the systems changes necessary to improve community health and achieve health equity.
Within eight NLAPH cohorts, we’ve found that the program has created significant and sustainable changes in the leadership of its participants—enabling them to grow as individual leaders, develop as a team, and make meaningful progress on a project in their communities. A survey and interviews with alumni showed that most are still using skills and tools from NLAPH and feel that participation positioned them to take on and lead other community health improvement efforts.
Read more about the lasting impact of participating in NLAPH in our alumni report. We’ve also learned about which qualities of individuals and teams position them to have a positive impact on the health of their communities. These include having individuals that are mission-driven and committed to the work and team members who were in a position to navigate power dynamics and political processes to make change.
Learn more about the factors that influenced teams’ ability to have an impact at the individual, team, and community level in our report on the impact of NLAPH.
Please contact us for more information about NLAPH: Maggie.E.Jones@kp.org