PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

The National Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute is coordinated and developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Public Health Leadership Development Network. The program was developed based upon CDC priorities that identified a need for improving leadership capacity in environmental public health practice.  Emphasis is placed on the core functions of public health as a foundation for achieving public health goals and the need for proactive environmental public health leaders to mobilize resources in response to the changing public health environment. 

Institute’s Mission:

• Strengthen the country’s environmental public health system by enhancing the leadership capabilities of state and local environmental public health specialists from multiple agencies/organizations in diverse settings

Program goals include:

• Increase the leadership capacity and skills of environmental public health personnel working in diverse settings
  
• Enhance the performance outcomes of public health core functions and essential services
  
• Promote and improve the environmental public health of communities

The Institute is a year long competency-based program which focuses on personal understanding and growth.  Critical thinking and analysis, political effectiveness, organizational and team development are emphasized to enhance strategic visioning and direction setting skills.  In addition to competencies related to core public health leadership development (refer to specific session competencies that follow) the Institute addresses the following competencies specific to the practice of environmental public health:

• Identifies and communicates models of best practices in the 21st Century for the delivery of environmental public health services (communities of excellence and other innovative approaches)
  
• Develops environmental public health performance standards that include the core functions of public health
  
• Applies the Public Health Ten Essential Services Model to the practice of environmental public health programs
  
• Applies knowledge and understanding of the role of leadership and improved capacity to influence others to solve environmental health problems
  
• Applies practical thinking skills, creative and critical thinking, to solve environmental health problems
  
• Applies a systems based continuous assessment process to address environmental public health services delivery system problems (systems assessment, program assessment)
  
• Applies a systems thinking approach to solve environmental public health problems
  
• Identifies and communicates the strengths and weaknesses of various problem solving and decision making models and processes to solve environmental public health problems

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