| DR B C DASGUPTA MEMORIAL ORATION |
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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 171-174 |
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Public health leadership in India: Reflections from my journey
Anand Krishnan
Professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Anand Krishnan
Room No 13. Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_93_18
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Public Health discipline has evolved and currently focuses on addressing social determinants of health and working multi-sectorally to promote health. Public Health Leadershipis the practice of mobilizing people, organizations, and communities to effectively tackle tough public health challenges. Leadership is a core competency of public health.Leaders are people with Vision, Influence, Values and Passion to achieve personal and organizational mission.Leadership is not a personal trait but is learnable skill. Leadership is a journey where one goes from being a member of a single team to lead health sector in working with other sectors. A leader moves from carrying out assigned tasks at the beginning of journey to providing a vision to motivate others to achieve their life goals. A true leader grooms leaders to establish a legacy of leadership. Ten lessons from my life would be: Believe in yourself; Seize the opportunities; present a vision of future; get out of comfort zone; expand capacity rather than define limits; strengthen communication and people to people skills; build a team; consider everyone as a potential collaborator; focus on deliverables and on relationships. We should start Public Health leadership course and develop core modules for teaching of leadership to post graduates in all medical schools.
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