Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute
The Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute is a twelve month intensive leadership program designed for senior
and emerging leaders in public and private organizations whose primary mission is to improve the health and well being of populations and communities in Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. In addition, the Great Plains PHLI aims to increase the value of public health within these communities in our region through greater leadership in action.
The curriculum of the Great Plains PHLI is designed to address a set of established Core Public Health Leadership Competencies. Strengthening the competencies is done with three multi-day residential skills building sessions, self assessment, journaling, mentoring/coaching, crossregional leadership web casts and monthly Intersession Conference Calls. In addition, each scholar develops and executes a group-based project related to public health and leadership. After graduating from the Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute, each alumnus becomes a member of the Great Plains Public Health Leadership Academy, for continuing advanced leadership education. The Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute is an initiative of The Nebraska Educational Alliance for Public Health Impact (NEAPHI), established in 2000 as a collaborative partnership of over 30 academic and practice organizations concerned with public health workforce training and education. The Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute is supported in part by
funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center and
the Upper Midwest Center for Public Health Preparedness at the University of Iowa, Nebraska Health and Human Services System, and the Nebraska Center for Biopreparedness Education. Additional in-kind support comes from the
University of Nebraska Medical Center, CityMatCH and other NEAPHI member organizations.

Contacts:
Magda G. Peck, ScD, Director
Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center
982175 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-2175
Phone: 402/561-7500
Fax: 402/561-7525
Email: mpeck@unmc.edu

Brandon Grimm, MPH, Coordinator
Great Plains Public Health Leadership Institute and
Nebraska Educational Alliance for Public Health Impact at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center
210 S. 49th Street
Omaha, NE 68132
Phone: 402/561-7562
Fax: 402/561-7525
Email: blgrimm@unmc.edu
Website: http://www.greatplainsleadership.org