Success Stories
Doug Campbell Wins SEPHLI
Award
(NC
DHHS "EmployeeUpdate" Newsletter February 2006)
Carol Schriber 1-12-06
As he completed a year-long Southeast Public
Health Leadership Institute in December, Dr.
Doug Campbell won the 2004-2005 "Best Leadership
Project Award" in the area of "Assurance
in Public Health." Campbell is head of
the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
Branch in the Division of Public Health.
Campbell's project was to develop a study to
determine if the state's new rules governing
the decontamination of methamphetamine labs are
effective in practice. |
Dr. Doug Campbell, SEPHLI Scholar 2004-2005
and Dr. Claudia Fernandez, SEPHLI Principal Investigator |
Now in its ninth year, SEPHLI is a year-long, multi-state,
leadership development program directed by the University
of North Carolina School of Public Health for mid-
to senior-level public health administrators working
in the mid-Atlantic states of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Participants
work in teams and individually to learn and practice
an array of leadership skills, such as critical thinking,
effective communication, and collaboration.
Other Division of Public Health employees in the 2004-2005
class were Carol Tant Children and Youth Branch; Susan
Chappell-Witt, Heart Disease and Stoke Prevention;
and Gustavo Fernandez, State Center for Health Statistics
(now retired). Three local health directors were also
in the class – Jane Murray from Scotland County
(who won the "Best All-Around Scholar Award" for
the year), Janice Patterson from Clay County, and Jenny
Lassiter from Pamlico County. The leadership team that
included Chappell-Witt won the year's "SEPHLI
Team Work" award.
"This was a year-long effort, with a huge amount
of time spent by me and others, and it's nice to get
acknowledged for that," Campbell said. "The
program is very demanding, but we get a lot of valuable
things out of it. I'm very glad I was given this opportunity – I
learned a huge amount and grew in many positive ways
through the experience."
"My mentor was Dr. Ronald Levine, past state
health director, who met and worked with me, and I
am very grateful to him for his help," Campbell
said.
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