Fellow Alumni Doing Great Things

Paula Tran Inzeo and Katherine Vaughn Jehring to Represent Wisconsin at the National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health

Congratulations to Paula Tran Inzeo and Katherine Vaughn Jehring, 2010-2012 Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellows, who will represent Wisconsin at this year’s National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health, along with David Liners, Executive Director of WISDOM , and Jennifer Weitzel Blahnik, Public Health Nurse with the Health Equity Team at Public Health Madison-Dane County. The team plans to build a powerful, permanent statewide network for achieving health equity:  the Wisconsin Health Equity Alliance (WHEA).  The WHEA, a network of public health practitioners, academics and community organizers will serve as a hub for training, strategy development, state meetings and planned action for policy and systems change to eliminate health inequity.

The National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health (NLAPH) is a program of the Public Health Institute's Center for Health Leadership and Practice.  NLAPH is an applied leadership training program that enables multi-sector jurisdictional teams from across the US to address public health problems within their communities through team-identified community health improvement projects.