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 the health of communities 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 Border Health Leadership Program (BHLP) to serve public health leaders throughout the US-Mexico border region. The BHLP will provide advanced leadership training, emphasizing the development of collaborative and trans-border leadership skills, for members of the USMexico
Border Health Commission and other public health leaders working in the border region. Objectives of the BHLP are to:
1. Develop a yearlong, team-based, action-learning, leadership development program for Border Health Commissioners and other public health/health leaders in the region
2. Design the program based on previous 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

Contacts:
Kenneth Schachter, MD MBA, Principal Investigator

Jennie Mullins, MPH, Project Director
Southwest PHLI
University of Arizona
Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Drachman Hall, Building 202A
1295 N. Martin Ave.
P.O. Box 245210
Tucson, AZ 85724
Phone: 520-626-0189 (Mullins)
Phone: 520-626-7960 (Schachter)
Fax: 520/626-8716
Email: mullinsj@email.arizona.edu
Email: kschacht@email.arizona.edu
Website: http://www.publichealth.arizona.edu/healthleadership/default.aspx