1. It’s Not Your Father’s Public Health
Louis Rowitz, PhD
Director Mid America Regional Public Health Leadership Institute

2. The Tipping Point The Stickiness Factor The Law of the Few (Agent)
(Host)
The Law of the Few (Agent)
The
Tipping Point
The Power of Context
(Environment)

3. The Law of the Few Personality Types
Connectors - people specialists
Mavens- information specialists
Salespersons – the persuaders

4. Public Health Complexity Issues: Leadership Demands
Strategic
Challenges
P.H.
The
Tipping Point
Societal Trends
Community Context

5. Public Health Response
Societal Pressure
Local Public Health
Response
(Complexity)
Community
Crisis and Priorities
Strategic
Challenges
National Agenda

6. Societal Pressures

7. Dimensions of Culture (Hofstede, 1997)
Power Distance
Collectivism vs. Individualism
Femininity vs. Masculinity
Uncertainty Avoidance

8. Power distance is the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect or accept that power is distributed unequally.

9. Individualism pertains to societites in which the ties between individuals are loose; everyone is expected to look after himself or herself and his or her immediate family Collectivism as its opposite pertains to societies in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive ingroups, which throughout people’s lifetimes continue to protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.

10. Masculinity-femininity as a dimension of societal culture

11. Uncertainty of avoidance is the extent to which the members of a culture feel threatened by uncertain or unknown situations

12. STRATEGIC CHALLENGES

13. NATIONAL AGENDA

14. NATIONAL AGENDA PUBLIC HEALTH CERTIFICATIONS HEALTH ALERT NETWORK
PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP
ESSEENTIAL PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
HEALTH ALERT NETWORK
NATIONAL PERFORMACE STANDARDS
PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS
MAPP
EVIDENCE-BASED PUBLIC HEALTH

15. COMMUNITY CRISES AND PRIORITIES

16. COMMUNITY CRISES AND PRIORITIES
I-PLAN
I-PLAN PRIORITIES
STATE MANDATES
BUDGETING REALITIES
COUNTY BOARD
BOARD OF HEALTH
HEALTH CRISES