Virtual Leadership Forum

An ongoing series of engaging and interactive discussions providing alumni with lifelong learning opportunities, connections and the ability to engage with faculty and fellow alumni in the kind of exchange that students enjoy regularly in HMP. 

July 9, 2020

Leading in the Next Normal: Making Meaning for Yourself and Your Organization

Presenter:
Janet Dombrowski

Developed based on conversations with leaders at all levels and types of healthcare organizations and focused on continuing to build the necessary resilience for the leading in the long haul. Topics include: whole person impacts of leading in crisis, navigating paradox, and overcoming resistance.  Presented in a coaching fashion with the intention of supporting shifts in mindset and building skill sets to continue to successfully navigate these times of uncertainty and lack of control.

April 9, 2020

Being at Your Best: Courageous Leadership for Creative Problem Solving 

Presenter:
Janet Dombrowski

Framing or reframing and honing the skill sets that will help you be the best leader you can be in this challenging time - for yourself, your team, your family, your community.  Some theory, mostly practical advice and just good coaching support.

2019

Wednesday, February 20

Investing in Children's Mental Health

Presenter:

Daniel Eisenberg
S. J. Axelrod Collegiate Professor
Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health

What are the best investments in children's mental health, and to what extent are we making those investments in the U.S.? What will it take to move towards better investments?

These are some of the most pressing questions that our society faces, and yet we have hardly any clear answers. I will discuss my research and analysis of these questions, as part of an ongoing project that will culminate in a book for Oxford University Press.

Learning Objectives

  1. Bring together frameworks from economics and other disciplines to conceptualize approaches to improving children's mental health at a population level.
  2. Review empirical data about the effectiveness and economic returns from current programs and services addressing children's mental health.
  3. Assess the key barriers and facilitators to better investments in children's mental health at a population level.

Wednesday, March 20

The use of cost-effectiveness analysis in domestic and international policymaking


Presenter:

David Hutton
Associate Professor
Health Management and Policy
Global Public Health
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Industrial and Operations Engineering
College of Engineering

Learning Objectives

  1. Overview of cost-effectiveness analysis
  2. Use of cost-effectiveness analysis...(1) In the US and (2) Internationally
  3. Examples of how cost-effectiveness analysis has been used for policymaking

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Technology, Trust, and Privacy

Presenter:

Denise Anthony
Professor
Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health

This talk will discuss how patients' trust in physicians varies with patient characteristics (e.g., health conditions, socio-demographic characteristics), and why this matters for new information technologies in healthcare.

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe some of the benefits of patients' use of information technologies like patient portals, but show that there are systematic differences in who is and is not using them.
  2. Discuss evidence of systematic disparities in patient trust, by race/ethnicity and by stigmatizing health conditions.
  3. Show how disparities in trust can influence the use of health IT in unexpected ways; sometimes hindering patient use, but under other conditions, low trust in a physician can motivate use of health IT.

 2018

February 21, 2018

  The Epidemic of Gun Violence: A Public Health Problem

Presenters:

Jen Martin
Director of Government Relations
University of Michigan School of Public Health

Julia Wolfson
Assistant Professor
Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health

The Epidemic of Gun Violence - A Public Health Problem (slides)
Tools in Effective Advocacy (slides)

The U.S. continues to face the public health threat of persistent gun violence and rates of gun deaths that are far greater than much of the rest of the world.

Participate in this interactive webinar to learn how to understand the issue. We will begin with an overview of the current research to understand the scope of the problem before examining how conversations are framed by various interest groups. While there are no easy solutions, we will then also discuss some of the actions that concerned individuals might explore.

Learning Objectives

  1. Review the research associated with gun violence prevention
  2. Understand the scope and framing of the public health problem
  3. Discuss the role of advocacy in addressing the issue

 January 24, 2018

  Precision Medicine: Its Promises and Pitfalls
  A national and SPH update followed by a conversation on its bounds.

Presenter:

Melissa Creary
Assistant Professor
Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health

Slides

The President's 2016 budget includes investments in an emerging field of medicine that takes into account individual differences in people's genes, microbiomes, environments, and lifestyles. It's called the Precision Medicine Initiative. According to the Precision Medicine Initiative, precision medicine is "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person."

Participate in this interactive webinar to learn more about the current status of the University of Michigan's newest campus-wide research initiative. We'll discuss the current state of science, who the players are, policy and practice implications, as well as some ethical considerations.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand general principles of the national and university priorities of precision health
  2. Review the burgeoning campus-wide multidisciplinary research initiative goals and future directions
  3. Discuss the ethical considerations of the initiative and its potential bounds

 2017

March 8, 2017

  Repeal, repair, or replace: what is next for the ACA?

  An overview of policy implications for health care leaders

Speakers:

Peter D. Jacobson, J.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Health Law and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health

Marianne Udow-Phillips, M.H.S.A.
Executive Director
Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation
University of Michigan

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the challenges and implications of changing the ACA and Medicaid expansion
  2. Review future policy scenarios and the impact on various stakeholders
  3. Learn about practical actions that health care leaders can consider
 

 2016

December 7, 2016

  The Opioid Epidemic: An overview of current policy

  and practice implications for healthcare leaders

Speakers:

Rebecca L. Haffajee, J.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health

Steve Merz, M.H.S.A.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the origins and magnitude of the opioid epidemic in the US
  2. Review policy and regulatory perspectives relating to opioid use
  3. Hear about practical actions healthcare systems can take to address in their communities

 

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