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. 2024 Apr 4:45:1606794.
doi: 10.3389/phrs.2024.1606794. eCollection 2024.

Emerging Health Care Leaders: Lessons From a Novel Leadership and Community-Building Program

Andrea Martani  1 , Agne Ulyte  2 , Dominik Menges  3 , Emily Reeves  4 , Milo A Puhan  3 , Rolf Heusser  3
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Emerging Health Care Leaders: Lessons From a Novel Leadership and Community-Building Program

Andrea Martani et al. Public Health Rev. .

Abstract

Background: Although there are guidelines and ideas on how to improve public health education, translating innovative approaches into actual training programs remains challenging. In this article, we provide an overview of some initiatives that tried to put this into action in different parts of the world, and present the Emerging Health Care Leader (EHCL), a novel training program developed in Switzerland.

Policy options and recommendations: Looking at the experience of the EHCL, we propose policymakers and other interested stakeholders who wish to help reform public health education to support these initiatives not only through funding, but by valuing them through the integration of early career healthcare leaders in projects where their developing expertise can be practically applied.

Conclusion: By openly sharing the experiences, strengths, weaknesses, and lessons learned with the EHCL program, we aim to foster a transparent debate on how novel training programs in public health can be organised.

Keywords: public health education; public health leadership; training program; transformative learning; transformative public health education.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they were involved in the training program described in the manuscript, either as instructors, organisers or participants.

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