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Benefits
The UMDNJ-SPH, Office of Public Health Practice is offering a Mid-Morning Public Health Seminar Series which will provide continuing education and learning opportunities for the public health work force, faculty, staff, students, and other interested members of the community. Seminar Series will be regularly scheduled events occurring on the third Wednesday** of every month from 10:15 AM. until NOON at 683 Hoes Lane West. 1.5 CE and 1.5 CHES credits will be available. Seminars are free to attend.

Audience
Public health work force, faculty, staff, students, and other interested members of the community

Features
Speaker Jonathan M. Metsch, DrPH - Jonathan M. Metsch earned a B.A. from Queens College of the City University of New York; an MPA from the University at Albany, State University of New York; and a DrPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received the School of Public Health's 2005 Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Metsch served for three years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force, leaving with the rank of Captain. Dr. Metsch, Dr.P.H. served as President and CEO of LibertyHealth, an integrated health care delivery system in Hudson County that includes Jersey City Medical Center; Greenville Hospital; Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center; Jersey City Family Health Center, the Liberty HealthCare System Foundation; Liberty Home Care; Liberty Health Care Management; LHCS Receivable Corporation/ Liberty HealthCare Capital.. He was also an Associate Dean for Jersey City Medical Center and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Metsch is a Past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Hospital Association, has served on a number Committees of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services related to Charity Care policy development. He served on the Governor's Advisory Commission on Hospitals, the Task Force on Affordability and Accessibility of Health Care in New Jersey, the Post Acute Care Work Group, and the Governor's Advisory Council on AIDS ---- Successful decision-making in public health and health care administration requires the ability and agility to balance public policy, institutional strategy, program objectives, resource allocation, inter-disciplinary planning and consensus building, and "turf" issues. This seminar will discuss studying the players, politics, processes, skills and strategies needed to be developed to better understand, monitor, and actively influence health care policy making at the state and federal levels, on behalf of provider organizations, consumers, and advocacy groups. Participants will learn to be better advocates with government and how to develop collective partnerships with communities. The strategies presented will address the need for the individual to understand that in “Guerilla Policy-fare” the process is disorderly, and rarely sequential. It typically involves multiple disciplines trained in different problem solving approaches and is colored by political considerations which are usually not clearly articulated. Participants will begin to understand that the process of advocacy has competitive elements with other providers and frequently moves very quickly. --- In this process leadership will face complex problems or predicaments of reconciling priorities that may not be complimentary. This seminar will challenge participants thinking regarding approaches to policy planning, decision making, and resource allocation, with goals that are clear but political support is not.

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John Malool, MS

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