National Public Health Leadership Institute
The National Public Health Leadership Institute (PHLI) has offered quality leadership training to senior public health
professionals since 1991. The target audience for PHLI is experienced, high-potential leaders who are dedicated to improving population health through system change. The program centers on two threeday residential retreats and includes individual leadership skill assessment and development planning, executive coaching, distance learning activities, and “action learning” systems change projects sponsored by a national public health organization.
The PHLI experience is designed to strengthen individual and team leadership skills and to foster lasting collegial
networks and life long learning that facilitates community and population health status improvement. Each year
PHLI accepts 50 scholars. CDC helps fund the effort and collaborates in its design and operation with the Center for Creative Leadership; the Public Health Leadership Society; the Public Health Institute in Oakland; CDC; and the North Carolina Institute for Public Health at UNC School of Public Health.

Contacts:
Steve Orton, PhD
Deputy Director,
Office of Executive Education
Email: phli@unc.edu

Edward L. Baker MD, MPH, MSc.
Director, North Carolina Institute for Public Health
Email: ed_baker@unc.edu

Carol L. Woltring, MPH,
Executive Director
Center for Health Leadership and Practice
Public Health Institute
Email: cwoltring@cfhl.org

David Altman, Senior Vice President
Center for Creative Leadership
Email: altmand@ccl.org

Mark Guarino, President
Public Health Leadership Society
Email: mgag1066@yahoo.com