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Kansas Public Health Leadership Institute
The Kansas Public Health Leadership Institute (KPHLI) is a collaborative effort between the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita.

The KPHLI’s mission is to provide essential, competency-based leadership training to Kansas workers in public health and allied fields in order for them to increase core public health and leadership competencies, strengthen social capital, and encourage collaboration between diverse health systems. The KPHLI's vision is an educated, collaborative, and highly competent workforce of public health leaders dedicated to improving the health of all Kansans.

The program’s year-long curriculum is based upon the Institute of Medicine’s Ecological Model and includes specific modules based on competencies developed by the National Public Health Leadership Development Network. The culmination of the KPHLI cycle is the development and presentation of an applied capstone project that addresses a health need in terms of the public health core functions. Scholars are able to earn continuing education for each session and MPH course credit upon graduation.

Through their work in the KPHLI, scholars develop their leadership knowledge, skills, and competencies in order to strengthen their organizations’ effectiveness and positively impact the public health system in Kansas. Scholars are drawn from all areas of the state and all types of health organizations.

Co-Executive Directors:
Suzanne Hawley, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
1010 N. Kansas Avenue
Wichita, KS 67214-3199
Phone: 316/293-2627
Fax: 316/293-2695

Shirley Orr, MHS, ARNP, CNAA
Director of Local Health
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 340
Topeka, KS 66612
Phone: 785/296-7100
Fax: 785/296-1231

Contact:
Theresa St. Romain, MA
KPHLI Senior Coordinator
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
1010 N. Kansas Avenue
Wichita, KS 67214-3199
Phone: 316/293-2627
Fax: 316/293-2695
Email: tstromain@kumc.edu
Website: www.waldcenter.org/kphli