PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1601444
This article is part of the Research TopicCatalyzing Public Health Leadership Research, Practice, Education, and TrainingView all 8 articles
Refocusing PH Training on Effective Leadership and Communication Skills to Increase Efficacy
Provisionally accepted
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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Public health (PH) practitioners recognize the importance of cultivating future leaders, especially as the value of public health is increasingly scrutinized nationally. To address this scrutiny, the PH workforce must demonstrate through its leadership adept communication skills and informed conversations leading to decisions based on science. The Master of Public Health and other programs can play a crucial role in the development of these skills through training and experiential opportunities allowing students to practice and enhance their leadership and communication efficacy. This paper addresses how we start rethinking the way we train the next generation of PH professionals. It also focuses on leadership and effective communication and how we can upskill those currently in the profession to address communication challenges and therefore move the field forward.
Keywords: student training, Public Health, Leadership and communication, Ecological leadership, Community Partnerships and Collaborations
Received: 27 Mar 2025; Accepted: 03 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Phillips, Hamilton, McCullough, El Reda, Currier and Clements. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Sharia Phillips, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
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