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BALDERSON LEADERSHIP PROJECT AWARDS

• 2009 WINNER:  Kentucky PHLI, Operation Headed Home (OHH), Heath Dolen, Elizabeth McKune, and Ava Wright
  
  
• 2009 RUNNER-UP:  Kansas PHLI, Innovative Collaborative Use of Resources to Place Amateur and 800 MHz Radios as Emergency Hospital Interoperable Communication Systems in Southwest Kansas, Karen Luckett and Richard Everett
  
  
• 2009 RUNNER-UP:  UNC Mgmt. Academy for PH, The Milwaukee/Waukesha County Consortium for Emergency Public Health Preparedness – Child Care Center Quality Rating System, Kristen Anderson, James Beix, Bridget Gnadt, and Ben Jones
  
  
• 2009 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast PHLI, Infectious Diseases and the Internationally Adopted Child:  An Educational Program for Adoptive Families, Adoption Agencies, and Physicians, Tamara Girard
  
  
• 2009 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast PHLI, Public Health Preparedness for the Little League Series, Douglas Koszalka and Jeffrey Blystone     
    
  
• Click here to listen to the 2009 archived presentations of the winners and runners-up     
  
  
• 2009 Nominated Project Summaries

• 2008 WINNERS: 
  Kentucky PHLI, Colon Cancer – Motivating At Risk Kentuckians to Screening, Angela Champion, Irene Centers, Jessica DuMaurier, Amy Young
  
  Kentucky PHLI, Implementing National Public Health Performance Standards  in Kentucky’s Local Public Health Systems, Louise Kent, Deborah Muench,Chastity Smoot
  
  
• 2008 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast PHLI, Clinton County Leadership Empowerment Program:  A Template for Bringing The NEPHLI Experience Home, Nanci Jarvis, Mandy Snay
  
  
• 2008 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast PHLI, Development of a Student Internship Program at the Burlington County Health Department (BCHD), New Jersey, Jennifer Horner
  
  
• 2008 RUNNER-UP:  Great Basin PHLI, Catching the Changing Vision of Utah’s Health Alert System within the Local Health Departments, Christine Warren
  
  
• 2008 Nominated Project Summaries

• 2007 WINNER:  Great Basin PHLI, Tribal Readiness Within Utah Borders, Jerianne Kolby, Konnie Parke

• 2007 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast PHLI, Developing an Assessment Model and Related Tools to Promote Synergistic Relationships between Categorical Health Programs and Centralized Data and Analytical Support Units within Public Health Agencies, Donald Perry, Henry Leibovitz

• 2007 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast PHLI, Improving Communications During Public Meetings, Charlotte Bethoney, Lani Rafferty 

• 2007 RUNNER-UP:  Kansas PHLI, A Leadership Summit on Healthy and Prepared Schools, Robert Hull, Terri Ploger-McCool, Jerry Tenbrink 

• 2007 RUNNER-UP:  Kansas PHLI, Open Access at Hunter Health Clinic: Doing Today’s Work Today, Susie Schwartz

• 2007 Nominated Project Summaries

• 2006 WINNER:  National Public Health Leadership Institute, Public Health Performance Improvement in Colorado, Rosemary Bakes-Martin, Arthur Davidson, Leanne Jeffers, Alyson Shupe

• 2006 RUNNER-UP:  Kentucky Public Health Leadership Institute, Preparing Kentucky’s Preparedness Staff for the Challenges of Tomorrow Through Competency Based Education, Sara Jo Best, Kristy Bolen, Dianne Coleman, Shelly Fryman, Jasie Jackson, Carol Lane

• 2006 RUNNER-UP:  Kentucky Public Health Leadership Institute, Father Involvement in the HANDS Program, Kay Depew, Brenda Humphrey, Lenora Kinney, Scott Lockard, Allison Napier

• 2006 RUNNER-UP:  Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute, Workforce development:  An assessment of public health epidemiologists in Tennessee, 2005, Mark McCalman, Ami Skalr

• 2006 Nominated Project Summaries

• 2005 WINNER:  Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership, Distance Continuing Education for Rural Community Health Workers in New Mexico, Patricia Anello

• 2005 RUNNER-UP:  CDC-Leadership and Management Institute, Enhancing Performance Through the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, Lynn Gibbs Scharf, Jerilyn Gilbert, Kathy Kirkland, Stefan Weir, Karen Willis (team represents the Division of State and Local Readiness in the Coordinating Office of Terrorism and Emergency Preparedness)

• 2005 RUNNER-UP:  Kentucky Public Health Leadership Institute, Improving the Health and Quality of Life for Residents Through Community-Driven Strategic Planning—Implementing MAPP in Louisville Metro, Shelia Anderson, Janice Cunningham, Dave Langdon, James McCammon, Janita Perry

• 2005 RUNNER-UP:  Kentucky Public Health Leadership Institute, Supporting Practice Through Quality Nursing Documentation, Beverly Aldridge, Kathy Fields, Karen King, Marla Jean Powell, Rinda Vanderhoof, Sarah Wilding

• 2005 RUNNER-UP:  Mid-Atlantic Health Leadership Institute, Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication Plan, Pat Balducci, John Kennedy, Ruth Maiorana, G. Cort Massey, Robert Ross

• 2005 Nominated Project Summaries

• 2004 WINNER:  National Public Health Leadership Institute, Creating a Public Health Systems Approach to Access to Care for the Latino Population in Oregon, Marie Dahlstrom, Bary Kast, John Lee, Lillian Shirley

• 2004 RUNNER-UP:  CDC—Leadership and Management Institute, Succession Planning at CDC, Don Benken, Michael, Dalmat, Marie Early, Claudette Grant-Joseph, Libby Howze, Harald Pietz, Felicia Pharagood-Wade, Amanda Tarkington, Kent Taylor, Elijah West, Robert Whitcomb, PHLI Team Members:  Sharunda Buchanan, Dennis Lenaway, Janet Nicholson

• 2004 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, Establishment and Assessment of a Hospital Emergency Room Syndromic Surveillance System in Ocean County, New Jersey, Ella Boyd

• 2004 RUNNER-UP:  Ohio Public Health Leadership Institute, School Nurse Bioterrorism/Disaster Preparedness: An Assessment of Competency and Training Need, Dorothy Bystrom, Diana Colaianni, Linda Ewing, John Hazy, Anita Kramer, Nancy Mosca, Dixie Morris, Nancy Norton, Nancy Swanson, Patricia Sweeney, Matthew Stefana

• 2004 Nominated Project Summaries

• 2003 WINNER:  Mid-America Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, Leadership Capacity Framework for Implementing the National Public Health Program, Odette Laplante
  
  
• 2003 RUNNER-UP:  Kentucky Public Health Leadership Institute, Kentucky Public Health Nurse Competencies, Carla Baumann, Carolyn J. Beaty, Ruth Davis, Joy Hoskins, Jennifer Hunter, Kimberlee Vanderbilt, Delena Young
  
  
• 2003 RUNNER-UP:  Northeast Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, Improving Childhood Lead Testing Rates in a Targeted Population, Denise Stasik
  
  
• 2003 RUNNER-UP:  Public Health Leadership Institute of Florida, Enhancing Awareness of Mosquito Borne Disease in Migrants and the Elderly Residing in Mobile Home Parks, Palm Beach County Florida, Boubker Naouri
  
  
• 2003 Nominated Project Summaries

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