Academic and practice partners in Missouri, Kansas,  and Oklahoma, including the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, the Heartland Center for Public Health and Community Leadership at Saint Louis University’s School of Public Health, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, and the Oklahoma University College of Public Health, have further formalized Heartland Region alliances by sponsoring the KMOLI Regional Leadership Institute.

The KMOLI Regional Leadership Institute will provide public health leaders in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma access to a comprehensive, competency-based leadership development experience to improve public health practice.  

Ultimately, KMOLI and other institutes will expand a national network of public health leaders to improve and protect the health and safety of the nation and influence the future of public health.  The structure and curriculum of KMOLI will provide an intensive and comprehensive program, as well as ongoing alumni development that utilizes the strengths and adaptations of three pre-existing leadership institutes (Kansas, Missouri, & Oklahoma). KMOLI program design and management, faculty and coaching functions will be evaluated and periodically adapted and refined to assure quality and impact. Evaluation model methods will measure participant knowledge, skill and competence improvement and related impact on organizational capacity, efficiency or effectiveness.