Experience

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  UNC-CH Gillings School of Global Public Health

  • Director Leadership MPH Concentration

    • Sep 2004 - Present

    In concert with our great staff and faculty, responsible for recruiting, selecting, orienting and educating approximately 40 new distance learning and 8 residential MPH students on a annual basis.We are in the business of Public Health Workforce Development, inculcating public health adaptive leadership values and providing personalized education in practice skills to those who are committed to improving the health of the public. Public Health professionalism and effectiveness are key. Community health improvement processes, quality improvement, leadership,communication, management, project management, innovation and policy development and evaluation are some of the most important practice skills we develop in our practitioner-students.

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  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health

  • Director, National Public Health Leadership Institute

    • 2001 - 2004
    • UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health

    Collaboratively designed, implemented UNC-Chapel Hill SPH, KF Business School and Center for Creative Leadership(CCL) an innovative version of the National Public Health Leadership Institute (NPHLI). The new aspects of the model included: -50 participants per year in geographic or issue-specific teams rather than as individuals-Focus upon team leadership to best assess and address population health issues to improve population and community health by assuring those conditions in which people have the opportunity to be healthy and happy-Use of face-to-face Individual feedback and coaching sessions post personality tests assessment and 360 degree feedback-Intensive action learning teams with dedicated, trained action learning coaches, -Internet dissemination of electronic educational materials and educational events and their support, -Emphasis on Community Health Improvement Processes(CHIP),- Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation (FIRO-B) assessment tool on an individual and (more importantly) team basis, Utilization of the Adaptive Leadership philosophy and guiding texts by R Heifetz, H Linsky and W Drath-Emphasis on risk and crisis communication and emergency preparedness post 9-11, O-Opening up the "National Public Health Leadership Society" alumni organization to graduates of state and regional public health leadership programsIn short, the NPHLI became less individualistic and elite focused and more team, community, and web based as well as adaptive change centered.This trend has continued with the current rendition of PHLI, the National Leadership Academy for the Public's Health (NLAPH) which trains teams of individuals from diverse communities with specific community health status goals in mind and robust team action learning processes. These models were met by the types of personal and misplaced loyalty-based attacks on approaches seen as threatening that Heifetz describes adaptive leadership typically

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  State of NM Public Health Division

  • Director, Public Health Division District 3

    • 1988 - 2001

    Managed and led an 8-county public health jurisdiction covering the southwest quadrant of the state of New Mexico bordering Texas, Arizona, and Chihuahua. Grew the staff resources from 30 employees to more than 200, implemented a health promotion team and Community Health Improvement Processes, expanded the WIC nutrition program to become the largest in NM serving colonia and other communities via mobile clinics, tripled the number of facilities from which the District served the public, lobbied for and created the NM Border Health Office in Las Cruces (first Border Health Office in a border county), represented NM on the US-Mexico Border Health Association and was the first US-Mexico local health official liaison group representative, connected NM to national public health associations such as ASTHO and NACCHO and served as the state local public health liaison. Additional programs included infectious and chronic disease, Children's Medical Services, Epidemiology, MCH, family planning and HIV and sexually transmitted disease.

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  NM Public Health Division District 3

  • Las Cruces, New Mexico Area

  • Family Nurse Practitioner

    • 1985 - 1988
    • Las Cruces, New Mexico Area

    Provided clinical services, particularly to the MCH population in pre-natal, post-natal, family planning and pediatric areas. Also served in STD, HIV and chronic disease clinic. Lead clinician in pediatric services, established pediatric PH policy, physical exam and immunization records, and worked with community pediatric service providers to facilitate and lead the Dona Ana County Maternal Child Health Council.