Impacting Binational Health through Leadership Development: A Program Evaluation of the Leaders across Borders Program, 2010-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Workforce and leadership development is imperative for the advancement of public health along the U.S./Mexico border. The Leaders across borders (LaB) program aims to train the public health and health-care workforce of the border region. The LaB is a 6-month intensive leadership development program, which offers training in various areas of public health. Program curriculum topics include: leadership, border health epidemiology, health diplomacy, border public policies, and conflict resolution.

Methods

This article describes the LaB program evaluation outcomes across four LaB cohort graduates between 2010 and 2014. LaB graduates received an invitation to participate via email in an online questionnaire. Eighty-five percent (n = 34) of evaluation par

SUBMITTER: Contreras OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566989 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature