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The 2008 Leadership Series, Making the Case for Population Health: A Leader’s Guide to Addressing the Root Causes of Health, is a three-part teleconference series that will be held August through October 2008. PHLS will convene experts from the national, state, and local levels to share their work and experience in addressing health disparities and social determinants of health. This years’ series will be moderated by Dr. Maureen Lichtveld.

To register for the Series, please send your contact info to anguyen@nnphi.org.

Making the Case for Population Health: A Leader’s Guide to Addressing the Root Causes of Health

Next Call: Call #1: Defining and Measuring Health Disparities
August 29, 2008 2:00-3:30 PM ET

This call will give participants an overview of health disparities and lead into the discussion of how public health practitioners can evaluate and measure health disparities.

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Speakers:
Garth Graham
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health
Office of Minority Health
US Department of Health and Human Services

Maxine Hayes
State Health Officer
Washington State Health Department

Previous Calls

2007 Leadership Series: Improving Quality on the Public Health Frontline: What Every Public Health Leader Should Know

Call 1: Setting the Stage: Quality Improvement on the Front line

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Speakers:
Joan Brewster
Director, Public Health Systems Planning and Development
Washington State Department of Health

Charlie Mahan
Professor Emeritus
University of South Florida, College of Public Health

Dave Ross
Director
Public Health Informatics Institute

Call 2: Advancing Public Health Preparedness and Response Using Quality Improvement Systems—July 2007

The second call will focus on the problems and implications of pandemic flu and how the different quality improvement initiatives can be a major tool.

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Speakers:
Mark Guarino
Previous Executive Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness
New Jersey Health Department and Senior Services

Nicole Lurie
Sr. Natural Scientist and Paul O’Niel Alcoa Professor of Policy Analysis
Co-Director for Public Health, Center for Domestic and International Health Security
Director, Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
RAND, Corporation

Sally Phillips
Director, Bio-Terrorism Preparedness Research Program
Agency for Health Research and Quality
US Department of Health and Human Services

Call 3: The Role of Public Health Quality Improvement Systems in Addressing the Obesity Epidemic—September 2007

This call will focus on the problems and implications of obesity and how the different quality improvement initiative can be a major tool in decreasing the incidence and prevalence of obesity.

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Speakers:
Kathleen Nolan
Health Division Director
The Center for Best Practices
National Governors Association

Joyal Mulheron
Program Director
The Center for Best Practices
National Governors Association

John Clymer
President
Partnership for Prevention

Amy Rossi
Associate Director
Arkansas Center for Health Improvement

Call 4: Quality Improvement Systems: Implications for Public Health Practice—November 2007

On the final call, participants will gain an understanding of the tools public health leaders need to create, integrate, and enhance a sustainable quality improvement system into practice.

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Speakers:
Robert Pestronk
Health Officer
Genesee County Health Department

Dennis Cookro
Medical Advisor
Florida Department of Health

Debra Burns
Director, Office of Public Health Practice
Minnesota Department of Health

2006 Leadership Series: Implications of Hurricane Katrina for Public Health Preparedness

Call 1: Preparedness and Response Plans

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Speakers:
Captain Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH (USPHS)
Acting Deputy Director, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne, and Enteric Diseases
Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease

Jimmy Guidry, MD
State Health Officer and Medical Director
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Jullette Saussy, MD
EMS Director
City of New Orleans

Call #2: Beyond Cell Phone & Walkie-Talkies

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Speakers:
Robert Johannessen
Director, Bureau of Media & Communication
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Melissa Walker
Public Infomarion Officer
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Kelly Fogarty, MS
Communications Director
Louisiana Public Health Institute

Timothy Tinker, DrPH, MPH
VP and Group Director
Widmeyer Communications

Call #3: Mental Health and Disasters

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Speakers:
Mollyann Brodie, PhD
VP, Director of Public Opinion and Media Research
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Cheryl Bowers-Stephens, MD, MBA
President & CEO
Schopenhauer Group LLC

Call #4: Getting It Right the First Time: Policy & the Built Environment

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Speakers:
John Pine, EdD
Director, Disaster Science and Management
Department of Environmental Studies
Louisiana State University

Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH
Director, National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH
Chair & Professor, Department of Environmental Health
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine