The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity for public sector leaders to innovate their programming in response to the public health emergency, and to continue to find new ways to deliver high-quality care for their members, both related to COVID-19 and as part of their “normal” work.

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Leading through a public health emergency like COVID-19 presents unique challenges and opportunities. This Leadership Forward episode, the fifth in a series that explores the Consortium’s Framework for Public Sector Leadership, focuses on how the framework’s “Practicing Good Public Administration” domain applies in practice. Tom Betlach, MPA, former Arizona Medicaid Director, and Jim Jones, Medicaid Director... Read more »

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The current focus on equity and inclusion across the country presents an opportunity for public sector health leaders to engage their staff to create agency cultures that value equity and inclusion, both internally and for the populations they serve. This Leadership Forward episode, the fourth in a series that explores the Consortium’s Framework for Public... Read more »

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This Leadership Forward episode, the third in a series that explores the Consortium’s Framework for Public Sector Leadership, focuses on how the framework’s “Setting and Managing Strategic Direction” domain applies in practice. The core competencies in this framework include vision and purpose, communication, planning for action, and balancing political and strategic agility. LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD,... Read more »

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This Leadership Forward podcast episode delves into the “Personal Leadership and Self-Management” domain of the Framework for Public Sector Leadership. This episode features Jami Snyder, MA, director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System and Kody Kinsley, MPP, deputy secretary for behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disabilities for the North Carolina Department of Health... Read more »

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This Leadership Forward podcast episode introduces the Public Sector Leadership Consortium, a new collaborative effort between the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD), and its Framework for Public Sector Leadership. This episode features Medicaid directors from Florida and Texas who discuss how they... Read more »

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