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LEADERSHIP AND EFFECTING CHANGE IN PUBLIC HEALTH2IntroductionPublic health is a very wide area of health sciences and covers a lot of other sections suchas environmental health, community health and other sections in medicine. Public health is very important in everyday life and is the backbone of the field of medicine. This is because public health aims at conserving and preserving people’s health in the world. Having an environment where people are healthy is one of the world’s vision 2030. Therefore public health should be properly managed by competent leaders to ensure health is well preserved and that the level of diseases is reduced. For that reason, there are some individuals from different disciplines such as professors, entrepreneurs, non-governmental organizations and even politicians who have taken the initiative to lead in preserving public health.[ CITATION Nor12 \l 1033 ] These leaders help greatly and have even received awards for their great work in the public health sector.PART 1Leaders vs. ManagersMany people think that all managers are leaders. That is not the case. You can be a manager but not a leader. Managers and leaders are very different. Managers are the people in charge of a certain group of people and oversee what they do. A manager ensures that people are at the right place and have all the facilities they need to be productive. They ensure employees gothrough the correct training, the working conditions are favorable, their problems are attended to and they are appreciated for excellent performance. They are also in charge of rebuking poor performance to ensure people work hard. (Hunt, 2013). A leader can be anyone not necessarily the manager. Anyone can develop leadership skills over time and be a leader. (Will, 2013).Leaders are those people who are able to creatively think and show people the right way which brings success to an organization. People can be specialized in different areas of
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LEADERSHIP AND EFFECTING CHANGE IN PUBLIC HEALTH3leadership. Someone can be a leader in public health while another can be a leader in technology.Therefore managers should allow leaders in various sections to lead other and even to lead them to success and ensure they achieve their goals.How the role and responsibility of a leader and a manager might differ in the PublicHealth industryThe public health industry is no different from any other industry whereby the roles and responsibilities of managers and leaders are very different. In the public health sector, it is not easy to operate without a leader. Therefore there can be a leader and manager or the leader can be simply be appointed as the manager. [ CITATION Nor13 \l 1033 ]A manager in public health puts in place measures to ensure health providers have the best working conditions to be able to attend to patients or provide good health services to people while a leader in public health works together with the health providers to ensure health is preserved among the people. A manager in public health ensures health facilities have the right equipment to attend to people while a leader ensures the equipment actually help in preserving public health. A manager always oversees that the activities of a public health foundation or organization are conducted as expected while a leader participates in the public health activities to provide a lead for the health providers to emulate when working. A manager reward excellent work in the public health sector but a leader is the one that is rewarded. [CITATION San07 \l 1033 ]For example, Charles Lyons was rewarded for establishing a foundation that helps to eradicate AIDS in children.PART 2Charles Lyons: President and CEO of Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
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LEADERSHIP AND EFFECTING CHANGE IN PUBLIC HEALTH4Charles Lyons established this foundation to help eradicate AIDS among children. Children are the future of the society and preserving their health will ensure a developed society. Lyon has shown a lot of commitment to assisting children and families that are infected or affected with HIV/AIDS. He has held several leadership positions in several non-profit organizations that operate all over the world. For example, he was head of special initiatives at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in their program for global development.[ CITATION Mas18\l 1033 ]. Charles Lyons exemplary performance in the public health sector made him appointed as a representative to the board of executives in UNICEF. He has also helped to create vaccines that will help to spread diseases among children who are infected with AIDS and reduce infection to new ones (Johnson, 2013).Roles and responsibilitiesCharles Lyon is in charge of strategic operations in Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. He is the one who does strategic planning for the foundation, he strategizes on time and places that need attention on matters of public health. He is also in charge of financial operations in the foundation. He decides areas in public health which need financial support and releases the funds. For example, after noticing a certain country has high rates of HIV/AIDS transmission during childbirth, he may release funds to help in putting in place measures to ensure safe delivery where the child is protected from infection. He is in charge of fundraising. He organizes fundraising activities to support the foundation in preserving public health. This can be through inviting prominent people to donate funds. He carries out all the management function in the organization to promote the main goal of the foundation which is to eradicate AIDS among children in the world.Michelle Obama
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