Emerging Leaders Network
Minnesota’s Emerging Leaders’ Network (ELN) was created to build a network of emerging public health leaders skilled in collaboration who are prepared to step into both formal and informal leadership roles. The project was piloted in 2002-2004 and partially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Turning Point Program, National Turning Point Leadership Collaborative (www.turningpointprogram.org). The Emerging Leaders’ Network is supported by four partner organizations: the Local Public Health Association of Minnesota; the Minnesota Department of Health; the Minnesota Public Health Association; and the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. The ELN expands access to leadership training for emerging leaders–people with the potential and desire for leadership, but who may not yet hold leadership positions, or if they do, their aspirations are for different public health positions in the future. The goals of the ELN are to: (1) increase the diversity among Minnesota’s public health leaders; (2) build leadership networks across public, private and nonprofit sectors that advance the public's health; and (3) enhance skills and build confidence of potential public health leaders in collaborative leadership. The primary focus of the ELN is on collaborative leadership and building skills and networks that enhance the ability of emerging leaders to work collaboratively and to lead others in working collaboratively in the field of public health.

Contact:
Gail Gentling, MPH Office of Public
Health Practice
Community and Family Health Division
Minnesota Department of Health
85 E. Seventh Place, Suite 220
P.O. Box 64882
St. Paul, MN 55164-0882
Phone: 651/201-3875
Fax: 651/201-3881
Email: gail.gentling@health.state.mn.us
Visit our web address at: http://www.health.state.mn.us/emergingleaders/index.html