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  • Leadership Development
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  • Leadership competencies are crucial for public health practice but are often inadequately addressed in MPH programs.
  • A gap exists in structured curricula for developing leadership skills within graduate public health education.
  • The University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health identified the need for enhanced leadership training.

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  • To describe the Leadership in Practice (LIP) MPH concentration at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health.
  • To detail the integration of problem-based learning (PBL) across a multi-course curriculum for leadership development.
  • To evaluate the impact of the LIP curriculum on students' leadership capacity and workplace readiness.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a multi-course MPH concentration (LIP) embedding problem-based learning (PBL).
  • Application of PBL across five required courses to foster systems thinking, strategic decision-making, and values-based leadership.
  • Utilizing interdisciplinary faculty expertise and a constructivist pedagogical philosophy.

Main Results:

  • The LIP curriculum successfully integrated technical knowledge with collaborative problem-solving and applied leadership skills through PBL.
  • Alumni feedback indicated enhanced workplace readiness and leadership capacity post-graduation.
  • Employer feedback corroborated the positive impact of the LIP program on graduates' leadership abilities.

Conclusions:

  • The Leadership in Practice (LIP) MPH concentration provides a successful model for integrating leadership development into graduate public health education.
  • Problem-based learning (PBL) is an effective pedagogical approach for cultivating essential leadership competencies in public health professionals.
  • There is a need for wider adoption of applied, interdisciplinary pedagogies to prepare public health leaders for transformative change.