Polishing the Apple: A Holistic Approach to Developing Public Health Law Educators as Leaders of Change

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Transforming the Future of Public Health Law Education through a Faculty Fellowship Program

“…A professional coach and conflict-engagement specialist offered personal and confidential coaching sessions. 28 Most fellows had never experienced professional coaching before, which provided them both an opportunity for addressing concerns about their own professional development (e.g., tenure, scholarship, and work-life balance) and a teaching model for coaching their own students. Three highly influential leaders in public health law, 29 who had come for the last two days of the institute and participated in the open-space sessions with substantive workshops in public health law and policy, also formed an impromptu expert panel to give individual sessions with any of the fellows who desired these leaders' personalized feedback on their projects.…”

Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned from Creating a Faculty Fellowship Program

“…All fellows noted the benefit of having one-on-one confidential coaching calls with the professional development coach, who provided advice, modeled language suggestions for negotiating, and supplied relevant literature about relationship building. 18…”