The Management Academy for Public Health: transforming the business of healthcare.

摘要

This issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (Vol. 12, Issue 5) focuses on the Management Academy for Public Health. This is a management development program jointly offered by the School of Public Health and the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1999. Initially funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources Services Administration, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and originally taking students from four southern states, the Management Academy is now a revenue-supported program that attracts participants from every region of the country. It is an intensive, 9-month, team-based program, using coursework in Chapel Hill, distance learning activities, and a capstone project consisting of a complete business plan that participants are expected to implement after being graduated from the program. A hallmark of the program is that it is thoroughly cross-disciplinary between public health and business, with the goal of applying business methods of management and business planning to public health issues. This orientation affects every aspect of the program and models the type of partnering between public health and business people that program planners believe is essential for successfully meeting the challenges faced by public health managers every day.