About the Center for Public Health Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
…..That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
Warren G. Bennis, author, scholar, pioneer in leadership studies
CENTER PROGRAMMING
EVENTS & WORKSHOPS: Leadership Development events and workshops, including Advanced Leadership Seminars, Self Assessment, Group Relations, Power & Differences, and Spring Challenge Case Study Competition.
INTERDISCIPLINARY PUBLIC HEALTH CONCENTRATION: Interdisciplinary Public Health Leadership Concentration, Leadership Self-Assessment Non-credit Course, and Roster of HSPH Leadership Development Courses.
EXECUTIVE AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:
Mid-career continuing education for executives and professionals. The center provides healthcare executive education, occupational and environmental health and safety training, and customized programs to professionals and executives across the country and around the world. Where theory informs practice and practice informs theory. ©
FASTTRACK TO PUBLIC HEALTH: FastTrack is a high-impact, rapid-cycle method of organizational improvement. In the context of health care and public health agencies, FastTrack helps public health practitioners solve complex challenges and improve the health of societies.
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STAFF INFORMATION
John E. McDonough, D.Ph., MPA
Professor of the Practice of Public Health
Director, Center for Public Health Leadership
Telephone: 617-432-2212
Mobile: 617-480-9217
jmcdonough@hsph.harvard.edu
John E. McDonough, D.Ph., MPA is a professor of public health practice at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of the new Center for Public Health Leadership. Most recently, he was the Joan H. Tisch Distinguished Fellow in Public Health at Hunter College in New York City. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as a Senior Advisor on National Health Reform to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Fawn A. Phelps
Assistant Director,
Center for Public Health Leadership
Telephone: 617-432-2209
Mobile: 617-510-2474
fphelps@hsph.harvard.edu
Fawn Phelps is Assistant Director of the Center for Public Health Leadership, managing the Center’s leadership development programming. She has more than 14 years of experience in legislative and regulatory advocacy focused on the well-being of low-income and disadvantaged populations. She joined HSPH after six years at Health Care For All where she staffed the pioneering coalition that backed Massachusetts’ landmark health reform and served as the organization’s Policy Director during Massachusetts health reform implementation.
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