National Preparedness Leadership Initiative

Program Session(s):

December 5, 2010 - December 10, 2010

Program Fee: $9,700 Tuition subject to change

Program fee includes: tuition, housing, curricular materials, and most meals for the one-week session and the two and one-half day concluding seminar.

There is currently a waitlist for admission to the December 2009 session of the program. We encourage applicants to apply for the December 2010 session of the program.

CURRICULUM

The NPLI Executive Education program is designed to produce effective leadership at all levels of government. As an outcome of the program, public officials will not only be prepared to cross geographic and agency boundaries to deal with emergencies, but to guide the design of comprehensive, multi-agency and jurisdictional emergency response plans. Through the program, participants will be able to:

Recognize the hazards of decision-making under stress.
Hone the personal skills and behaviors that drive effective leadership in the context of group dynamics and multiple stakeholder interests.
Develop leadership skills that mobilize greater capacity by cutting across traditional public agency and private sector boundaries.
Design strategies for communicating vital information to the public in a crisis.
Explore how to mobilize and deploy large systems, using organizational design and systems management to enhance vertical and horizontal connectivity.
Consider the moral and ethical dimensions of life and death decision-making.
Review the science of surveillance, detection, and response.

The NPLI curriculum leverages the combined strengths of Harvard Kennedy School experience in leadership education and the Harvard School of Public Health’s unmatched technical expertise in the field of public health emergencies.

The schools are supported in this effort with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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