Shaping the Millennium: Applications to Leadership Systems
Leslie Fisher, MPH Executive Leadership Coach and Mentor
Archivist Emeritus, Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section, American Public Health Association
Former Assistant Director, Research and Policy Development, Office of Public Health Management, New York State Health Department
Acknowledgements
Many editors and reviewers of professional journals and books have looked at earlier drafts of this seven-part historiography; I have thanked them for their comments. Also, appreciation to Kathleen Carlson, Kimberley Freire, Jenn Taylor, Motao Zhu, Janet Holden, Maggie Gunnels and David Lawrence, ICEHS Section, APHA, for leading that this MS was published by the Section; Dr. Sandor Schuman, University at Albany, SUNY for his most patient friendship for combining my earlier texts, figures and tables into a single document; Dr. Barry Pless, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Ms. Anara Guard, then with EDC, MA.; Ann Postore, University at Albany, SUNY, for their review of earlier MSS, advice and assistance on word processing and their constructive critiques. And to University at Albany, State University of New York, Drs. Mark Raider, Chair and Historian, and Joel Berkowitz, Professor, Judaic Department; Kendra Smith Howard (History of Public Health in the United States course Fall 2011 ) and David Hochfelder (The Gilded Age course, Fall 2011; History and Future, 2016), Assistant Professors in the History Department; and Mr. Dan Gremmer and Ms. Monica Schurr, The University Writer’s Center, English Department (for advice on editing); to Drs. Arthur Brenner, History Department, Sienna College, Loudonville, NY; Steven Berk, History Department, Union College, Schenectady, NY for inspiring historical concepts; and from University at Albany, State University of New York, School of Public Health, Professors Carol Whittaker and Dwight C. Williams, Public Health Leadership Institute, for their many lectures on leadership which I attended and participated. Thanks to the University at Albany, Interactive Media Center and to Dr. Nancy Nachreiner, UMN, for web technical supports. To Anara Guard, then with NSPC, and Dr. David Sleet, CDCP, for entries on “Safety First” and for his ongoing support and encouragements to document the past, present and potential future histories of our field. Thanks to Sue Baker, JHSPH, for suggesting this historiography for the www.
Key Words: Public health protection, child safety, child injury prevention, childhood injury, injury prevention, safety, history.
The opinions are mine alone and do not necessarily represent any one else, nor any group nor organization.
See related detailed commentaries on the history of injury prevention leadership, some at Archivist Attic in ICEHS Newsletters, at icehs_section@connect.apha.org (at archives and at communications) and Section Members have web access to APHA ICEHS Section library archives.
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