On July 20-22, 2009 the Maternal and Child Health Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) School of Public Health will offer the 2nd annual MCH leadership retreat entitled Leadership, Legacy, and Community: A Retreat to Advance Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Scholarship and Practice.
Leadership, Legacy, and Community is an exciting and new type of professional development program that will take place at the Hyatt Lodge at McDonalds campus in Oakbrook, IL. The Retreat is designed by and for intergenerational, interdisciplinary MCH practitioners and academic scholars. When individuals across the generations come together to share, new ideas, plans, and programs can be generated and developed to address our most pressing MCH issues. The synergy that develops when generations work together will shape our focus on MCH in the future.
While at the Retreat, participants will develop their leadership skills through experiential leadership development sessions and working sessions with their MCH colleagues to address current and cutting-edge MCH issues. For example, with the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, we will take a look at how we focus the work we do public health/maternal and child health in the language of human rights.
Registration is limited to 100 participants, and we encourage you and your colleagues to attend!
For more information and to register online please visit our Web site at http://www.uic.edu/sph/mch/mch_leadership_conference.htm or contact Kris Risley, DrPH at (312) 996-2875 or kyrisley@uic.edu.