Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States.
Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, United States.
Front Public Health. 2023 Oct 25;11:1210160. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1210160. eCollection 2023.
The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the challenges of public health leadership. Faced with criticism, threats, and even violence, many public health leaders have left the field. A healthier future for the nation may well rest on training aspiring public health leaders to build deeper capacity for perseverance, healing, and resilience. Reflecting the growing experience of a team of public health educators at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan), this article offers recommendations for public health schools to recognize, and incorporate into leadership education, themes of spirituality-ie, the way people seek ultimate meaning and purpose and deep connectedness to something larger than themselves. Doing so can serve as a foundation for the lifelong journey of leadership. Over the past decade, Harvard Chan has incorporated meaning, purpose, and connectedness themes to complement more traditional coursework addressing research and translation. While many established leadership frameworks address the "what" and "how" of career development, the spirituality framework can support aspiring leaders to more fully understand their "why" and its alignment with challenging work. Such a deeply personal topic, traditionally kept private, has been shared and nurtured in Harvard Chan classrooms through a range of pedagogical strategies including personal reflection, one-on- one coaching, experiential learning, case discussions, and candid conversations with public health leaders. By encouraging a values-based foundation for decision-making in crises and difficult leadership moments, such grounding can help aspiring leaders navigate the challenges of public health leadership that inevitably lie ahead.
新冠疫情暴露出公共卫生领导力面临的挑战。面对批评、威胁，甚至暴力，许多公共卫生领导人已经离开了这个领域。国家更健康的未来可能取决于培养有抱负的公共卫生领导人，以建立更强大的毅力、疗愈和适应力。本文反映了哈佛陈曾熙公共卫生学院（哈佛陈）的一组公共卫生教育工作者日益增长的经验，为公共卫生学校提供了建议，以认识并将灵性主题纳入领导力教育中，即人们寻求终极意义和目的以及与比自身更伟大的事物建立深刻联系的方式。这样做可以为领导力的终身之旅奠定基础。在过去的十年中，哈佛陈已经将意义、目的和联系主题纳入课程，以补充更传统的课程，包括研究和翻译。虽然许多既定的领导力框架解决了职业发展的“是什么”和“怎么做”的问题，但灵性框架可以支持有抱负的领导者更全面地理解他们的“为什么”及其与挑战性工作的一致性。这样一个传统上保密的深层次个人话题，已经通过一系列教学策略在哈佛陈的课堂上进行了分享和培养，包括个人反思、一对一辅导、体验式学习、案例讨论以及与公共卫生领导人的坦诚对话。通过鼓励在危机和困难的领导时刻做出基于价值观的决策基础，这种基础可以帮助有抱负的领导者应对公共卫生领导力面临的挑战。
