Since 2011, NLAPH has offered an innovative style of leadership development by bringing together teams of leaders from multiple sectors who actively engage their communities to improve population health and advance health equity. This one-year program uses blended learning modalities and an action learning process that includes:
– An applied health leadership project focused on an issue that is already a priority in your community
– Web-based resources on multi-sector leadership development and continuous quality improvement
– A webinar series
– A leadership retreat
– Coaching support
– Peer networking
– Competencies are embedded within the program curriculum to encourage the advancement of leadership knowledge, attitudes, and practices.

NLAPH goals and objectives:
– Educate stakeholders about evidence-based policy options
– Drive the adoption of evidence-based practices in communities
– Better align medicine and public health
– Improve health outcomes in our nation through sustainable systems change

NLAPH teams and curriculum:

Teams are selected through a competitive process that results in a cohort made up of multi-sector teams of four or more professionals. NLAPH helps teams address the most pressing public health issues in their communities to create long-lasting change. Teams address a variety of public health topics, including:
– Overdose prevention
– School readiness
– Food security & other chronic disease prevention
– Complete streets & other environmental health
– HIV/AIDS & other communicable disease
– Behavioral health, ACES, & trauma-informed work
– Coordinated re-entry & other housing access
– Coalition building
– Disaster preparedness
– Breastfeeding & other maternal/childhood health