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Southwest Public Health Leadership Institute
The Southwest Public Health Leadership Institute (SWPHLI), hosted by the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health is dedicated to improving health in border and bi-national communities, tribal health programs, and state and county public health systems. The SWPHLI provides leadership workshops and collaborative leadership training for emerging and mid-level public health leaders.

In collaboration with numerous partners, the SWPHLI is currently developing a Transborder Public Health Leadership & Diplomacy Program (TBPHLDP) to serve public health leaders across the US-Mexico border region. The TBPHLDP will provide advanced leadership training, emphasizing the development of collaborative and trans-border leadership skills, for members of the US-Mexico Border Health Commission and other public health leaders working in the border region.

Objectives of the TBPHLDP are to:

1. Develop a yearlong, team-based, action-learning, leadership development program for Border Health Commission members and other public health/health leaders in the region.
2. Design the program based on existing successful programs, public health leadership needs assessments, and the expressed needs of participants
3. Facilitate team-based projects focused on complex, real-world, border/bi-national public health challenges
4. Increase participants' public health leadership knowledge, skills and abilities
5. Leverage resources to create a sustainable program