North Carolina Institute for Public Health

North Carolina Public Health Leadership Institute

Intensive leadership development for state and local public health professionals

The North Carolina Public Health Leadership Institute is a year-long leadership development program for public health professionals from the North Carolina Division of Public Health and local public health agencies across the state. This program provides a unique opportunity for state and local practitioners to come together to network with each other, learn about adaptive leadership skills and apply those skills to a relevant challenge in their organization or community.

Past participants have commented that the leadership skills and abilities they developed in this program include: resilience, communication, collaboration, creating a shared vision and embracing change.

The traditional NCPHLI program will be on pause for 2022-23. Instead, in recognition of the issues around equity that have been elevated during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the extraordinary ongoing pressures on North Carolina Public Health professionals, we will be offering a new program, NCPHLI: Leading with Equity.

"To be able to see the same leadership challenges with different backgrounds makes it personal to me. Everyone always thinks that their position or job is unique to everyone else's yet the leadership challenges are similar." -previous NCPHLI participant

"Leadership is more than a title, but a way operating regardless of your roles and responsibilities. This program allows you to focus on your strengths and allows you to value the strengths of others." -previous NCPHLI participant

"I must say Vaughn is the perfect faculty for this course. Her experiences, presentation style, insight, honesty and feedback has been invaluable to me." -previous NCPHLI participant

More information

For more information about the application, program, schedule or curriculum, contact Rachel Wilfert.

NCIPH’s educational programs reflect our organizational values as well as those of UNC Gillings. Diversity, inclusiveness and civility are core values and characteristics of the School.