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Strategic Skills for Public Health Practice: Systems and Strategic Thinking

Authors: Michael Fraser, PhD
Released: October 2024 Length: 120 Pages Published By: APHA Press Price: $42
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Part of the Strategic Skills for Public Health Practice series, Systems and Strategic Thinking provides a new way of approaching problems and solutions from a perspective that emphasizes interconnectedness, relationships, patterns, and synergies. Systems and Strategic Thinking provides a framework practitioners can use to intervene in complex public health issues, moving their efforts from individual program silos toward approaches that take a more holistic point of view.

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  • How to define systems and strategic thinking
  • Why systems and strategic thinking is an important strategic skill for public health practitioners at the local, state, and federal levels
  • How systems thinking can help public health managers stimulate their teams to share different experiences, knowledge, and perspectives to solve important public health challenges

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Strategic Skills for Public Health Practice: Systems and Strategic Thinking

Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN Executive Director, MS Public Health Association President, American Public Health Association (2022)

This book addresses public health thinking in a way that no other book has done to date. If we did not learn anything from COVID-19, we should have learned just how complex public health in the 21st century really is. Fraser’s Systems and Strategic Thinking is an excellent resource to challenge us all to think systematically about what we are doing and how we approach our work with other sectors and partners. Systems thinking is essential to the future of public health work.

Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN Executive Director, MS Public Health Association President, American Public Health Association (2022)
John Wiesman, DrPH, MPH Director, DrPH in Public Health Executive Leadership Department of Health Policy and Management Associate Dean for Practice UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

This straightforward, easy-to-read, practical primer on systems and strategic thinking gives public health and nonprofit leaders, managers, staff, and students the fundamental knowledge and tools to successfully create and navigate the future. This is a must-read for today’s workforce and those responsible for developing and supporting it. It will support your work in achieving health equity and improving the vital conditions necessary to foster health and well-being in all.

John Wiesman, DrPH, MPH Director, DrPH in Public Health Executive Leadership Department of Health Policy and Management Associate Dean for Practice UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

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