The Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness Initiative: An Innovative Model to Advance Public Health Preparedness and Response

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• Alternative Title:
  Biosecur Bioterror
• Personal Author:
  Sobelson, Robyn K. ; Young, Andrea C. ; Marcus, Leonard J. ; Dorn, Barry C. ; Neslund, Verla S. ; McNulty, Eric J.
• Description:
  This article reports on the design, evaluation framework, and results from the Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness Initiative. The Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness was a 5-year initiative based on the premise that national preparedness and emergency response is not solely the responsibility of government. From 2006 to 2011, 36 Meta-Leadership Summits were delivered in communities across the country. Summits were customized, 10-hour leadership development, networking, and community action planning events. They included participation from targeted federal, state, local, nonprofit/philanthropic, and private sector leaders who are directly involved in decision making during a major community or state-wide emergency. A total of 4,971 government, nonprofit, and business leaders attended Meta-Leadership Summits; distribution of attendees by sector was balanced. Ninety-three percent of respondents reported the summit was a valuable use of time, 91% reported the overall quality as "good" or "outstanding," and 91% would recommend the summit to their colleagues. In addition, approximately 6 months after attending a summit, 80% of respondents reported that they had used meta-leadership concepts or principles. Of these, 93% reported that using meta-leadership concepts or principles had made a positive difference for them and their organizations. The Meta-Leadership Summit for Preparedness Initiative was a value-added opportunity for communities, providing the venue for learning the concepts and practice of meta-leadership, multisector collaboration, and resource sharing with the intent of substantively improving preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.
• Subjects:
  Article Civil Defense Congresses As Topic Consumer Behavior Cooperative Behavior Decision Making Disaster Planning Emergencies Government Agencies Humans Industry Leadership Models, Organizational Organizations, Nonprofit Social Networking

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• Source:
  Biosecur Bioterror. 11(4):251-261.
• Pubmed ID:
  24251597
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5582976
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e47ce323c170aec06d3168feec914f07e4a4fb954fbfbb0469cbff683e22c601
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/48003/cdc_48003_DS1.pdf
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