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Change and Public Health: A Deeper Look into Leading Change Successfully

Course Objective

  • Identify key competencies for managing change in the role of the Chief Health Strategist and Public Health 3.0
  • Assess how change impacts individuals and organizations when addressing a major public health crisis
  • Describe how Kotter’s “8-Step Process for Leading Change” may help guide a successful organizational change initiative

Date: October 1, 2019

Presenter:
Emil J. Sadloch, MA
President, Sadloch Development Associates


In this Month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn about change management principles that public health professionals can utilize from Emil J. Sadloch, MA, President of SADLOCH DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES. Using a systems thinking approach to generate collaboration in Public Health 3.0, Emil provides an overview of how Chief Health Strategists can be change agents, who take the initiative in actualizing change. Emil highlights Kotter’s 8-Step Model for Leading Change as one of various frameworks for implementing change practices.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Identify key competencies for managing change in the role of the Chief Health Strategist and Public Health 3.0
  2. Assess how change impacts individuals and organizations when addressing a major public health crisis
  3. Describe how Kotter’s “8-Step Process for Leading Change” may help guide a successful organizational change initiative
Building BRIDGES to Communicate with Multi-Sector Partners

Course Objective

  • Describe the process of identifying others’ positions including values, actions, and resources
  • Explain how differing definitions of key issues and problems can create misunderstanding
  • Identify systems and structures that support collaboration

Date: September 10, 2019

Presenter:
Dr. Anne Marie Liebel, EdD.
President
Health Comunication Partners LLC.


This month’s Log-in2Learn is the second in a three-part series designed to help you convey public health messages that resonate with audiences outside of public health. Using the approach of building BRIDGES, Dr. Anne Marie Liebel concentrates on communication strategies to use with potential collaborative partners.

It is well known that multi-sectoral partnerships are key to addressing some of society’s most deep-seated problems, and that multiple perspectives are beneficial in seeking to affect meaningful and sustainable change. It is essential in such collaborative efforts to be able to build on commonalities, and communicate across differences, recognizing various stakeholders’ goals, assumptions, and approaches.

Drawing on policy sociology and inquiry-as-stance, this webinar explores communication to and from policy-makers, the media, and other potential partners. You’ll have the opportunity to explore the main challenges in successful cross-sector communication. You’ll examine how communicating with multi sector partners contrasts with communicating with a public health audience. And you’ll learn the steps for building bridges to potential collaborators.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Describe the process of identifying others’ positions including values, actions, and resources
  2. Explain how differing definitions of key issues and problems can create misunderstanding
  3. Identify systems and structures that support collaboration
Policy Engagement: An Essential Role for Public Health Agencies in Public Health 3.0

Course Objective

  • Describe the policy engagement process in public health
  • Identify approaches that public health agencies can use to inform policy development
  • Describe how the elements of the community health improvement process can be used to support effective policy engagement to achieve public health goals

Date: August 6, 2019

Presenter:
Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS
Public Health Practice Consultant


In this Month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn about various policy-focused approaches that public health agencies can utilize from Sylvia Pirani, MPH, MS. The lecture takes a systems thinking approach and acknowledges that policy making is a rarely linear process with stages occurring simultaneously. From policy around motor vehicle related incident and fluoridation of drinking water through the transition to Public Health surveillance, this webinar walks participants through the evolution of policy engagement up to Public Health 3.0 and the role of the Chief Health Strategist. Focusing on partnerships and cross-cutting activities such as stakeholder engagement, collaboration and communication Slvia Pirani provides an overview of the policy engagement process.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Describe the policy engagement process in public health
  2. Identify approaches that public health agencies can use to inform policy development
  3. Describe how the elements of the community health improvement process can be used to support effective policy engagement to achieve public health goals
Combating the Opioid Crisis with Audience-Centric Communications Strategies

Course Objective

  • Describe audience knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs around the risks of prescription opioids
  • Develop messaging models that build knowledge in a logical, audience-centric sequence
  • Identify communications strategies to reduce risky management of prescription opioids

Date: July 9, 2019

Presenter:
Sophia Lerdahl
Group Management Director, Substance Programs
Rescue: The Behavior Change Agency


This webinar discusses the various communication strategies used to reach the diverse audiences surrounding Opioid Misuse. Participants will learn about effective communication strategies in combating the Opioid Crisis from Sophia Lerdahl, Group Management Director at Rescue.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Describe audience knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs around the risks of prescription opioids
  2. Develop messaging models that build knowledge in a logical, audience-centric sequence
  3. Identify communications strategies to reduce risky management of prescription opioids
Building BRIDGES: Understanding our Position in Multi-Sector Communication

Course Objective

  • Consider our own assumptions about multi-sector communication, and about ourselves as communicators
  • Explore how our disciplines and workplaces tend to have their own terminology, jargon, or language, which can become invisible to us over time
  • Learn the importance of identifying our core, foundational values, as well as considering who and what might help us as we build the next bridge

Date: June 4, 2019

Presenter:
Dr. Anne Marie Liebel, EdD
President Health Communication Partners LLC


In this month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn from Dr. Anne Marie Liebel about the BRIDGES (bi-directional, resource-based, inquiry as stance, digital and multi-modal, global and local, equity-focused, social and situated) approach to multi-sector communication. In this first of a three-part webinar series, Dr. Liebel focuses on how the self both informs and is reflected by our communication choices. The lecture provides five concrete steps to help viewers identify own assumptions, professional positions and personal values that illuminate their current communication strengths and needs. Throughout the webinar, Dr. Liebel provides several personal and professional anecdotes that illustrate the importance of self-reflection in multi-sector communication.

Presenter: Anne Marie Liebel, EdD President Health Communication Partners LLC

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Consider their our own assumptions about multi-sector communication, and about ourselves as communicators
  2. Explore how our disciplines and workplaces tend to have their own terminology, jargon, or language, which can become invisible to us over time
  3. Learn the importance of identifying our core, foundational values, as well as considering who and what might help us as we build the next bridge
Systems Thinking for Public Health: An Introduction
Systems Thinking for Public Health An Introduction

Course Objective

  • Define a system
  • Explain why systems thinking is important for public health
  • Describe 3 tools for systems thinking

Date: May 7, 2019

Presenter:
Dr. Jacqueline Merrill, PhD, MPH, RN


In this month’s Log-in2Learn webinar, participants learn from Dr. Jacqueline Merrill about the value of systems thinking in addressing major, complex public health challenges. The lecture provides an overview on public health’s emerging responsibility to engage multiple stakeholders and community partners in improving social determinants of health, as well as how systems thinking can facilitate the creation of context-specific solutions between them. Dr. Merrill introduces the major constructs and describes basic decision-making tools used in systems thinking. At the end of the lecture, Dr. Merrill illustrates in-depth examples in applying systems thinking techniques in public health.

Participants will learn how to:

  1. Define a system
  2. Explain why systems thinking is important for public health
  3. Describe 3 tools for systems thinking
Region 2 Public Health Training Center