“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:
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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.
Between 2003 and 2008, he served as Executive Director of Health Care For All, Massachusetts’ leading consumer health advocacy organization, where he played a key role in passage and implementation of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law. From 1998 through 2003, he was an Associate Professor at the Heller School at Brandeis University. From 1985 to 1997, he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Health Care.
His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs and other journals. He has written three books, Experiencing Politics: A Legislator’s Stories of Government and Health Care by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund in 2000, and Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Setting by the University of Michigan Press in 1998. His new book, Inside National Health Reform, will be published in July 2011 by the University of California Press and the Milbank Fund.
He received a doctorate in public health from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan in 1996 and a master’s in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 1990. He lives in Brookline with his wife, Janice Furlong.
Fawn A. Phelps
Assistant Director,
Center for Public Health Leadership
Telephone: 617-432-2209
Mobile: 617-510-2474
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.
Previous to her work at Health Care For All, she served as the Director of Public Affairs at Easter Seals Massachusetts, a lobbyist for the Human Rights Campaign, and an aide to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. She has a B.A. from Wesleyan University
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