Why

The status Quo is harmful.

The status quo has been harming communities and societies for long enough. This fellowship invites in those who are ready to take personal responsibility for changing it, and themselves along the way, to live and create wellness for themselves and the systems they impact.

Public Health Leadership needs to evolve.

The complexity of a pandemic world. It begins from understanding we are the system and must focus on growing from inside out, starting with taking radical responsibility for the way we lead.- whatever your title. The long overdue equity reckoning. The hyperconnectivity of our global world. The need to decolonize our systems and structures. Global health demands a different kind of leadership to meet the challenges of our present ecosystem—and moreover, to drive impact towards the stagnating progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Embracing self-inquiry, allowing emergence, and prioritizing people over process is not only worthwhile, it’s non-negotiable.

What does evolved leadership look like?

Great public health leaders embody a complex mix of humility and community engagement, technical expertise, interdisciplinary and systems thinking, diplomacy, and emotional intelligence. They have a willingness to examine our own intuitions, power dynamics, and equity issues.

In public health, the personal is professional. Development in both is how we unleash broader social change. It begins from understanding we are the system and must focus on growing from inside out, starting with taking radical responsibility for the way we lead, whatever your title.

People Before Process

 
 

Lucy Ellis’ unnamed road

“Sometimes our biggest act of leadership is to get our voice in the room in the first place.” Former CDC staff and DSIL Leadership Program alum, Lucy Ellis, shares how her journey in the DSIL leadership course shaped her experience while at CDC and where she is today.