ASPPH invites our members and partners to contribute to the Frontiers in Public Health research topic, Catalyzing Public Health Leadership Research, Practice, Education, and Training. With funding from CDC, ASPPH is sponsoring this research topic and will fund publishing fees for all published articles. Manuscript summary submissions are due November 22, 2024, and manuscript submissions are due March 28, 2025.

Specific areas of interest related to this research topic include, but are not limited to:

• Research, practice guidelines, and training strategies for developing public health leaders at all levels
• Leadership development in schools and programs of public health
• Theoretical foundations, definitions, and frameworks for public health leadership
• Empirical studies on public health leadership traits that support the creation and implementation of effective, resilient, and responsive public health interventions
• Organizational structures for public health organizations to initiate, support, and sustain public health leadership efforts long term
• Novel approaches to leading in public health, including lessons learned from leadership studies in other fields
• The role of spirituality in public health leadership

The research topic editors are Dr. Howard Koh, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Dr. Emily Burke, Senior Director of Workforce Development and Applied Practice at ASPPH; and Dr. Louis (Jody) Fry, Regents Professor of Management and Leadership at Texas A&M University-Central Texas.

Please direct your questions to Dr. Emily Burke.