1. Sustainable Management Development Program (SMDP)
Strengthening Systems, Sustaining Results
I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to talk with you this morning. The SMDP is dedicated to achieving lasting health improvements by improving public health leadership and management in low and middle income countries.
Division of Public Health Systems and Workforce Development
Center for Global Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2. We can help you Promote analytical thinking with FETP Fellows
Train fellows and faculty in adult learning approaches rather than standard lectures
Do strategic planning for your FLTP
Offer continuing education short courses
Provide management training for FETP Fellows
Develop integrated curriculum for classroom and distance learning
Teach laboratory quality systems management approaches -

3. Short Courses Project management Team building Coaching and mentoring
Process improvement
Time management
Presentation skills
Putting data to work
Ethical decision making
Program planning

4. FETP Standard Curriculum Management Competencies
Manage a field project
Plan a field project
Monitor or evaluate a project or program
Manage staff and resources
Develop a budget for a project or program
Be an effective team leader and member
Lead and participate in teams
Use interpersonal communication skills to enable efficient and sound leadership in the PH community
Manage personal responsibilities
Manage time effectively
Competency statements identified in the management domain of the FETP standard curriculum project, completed in 2005.

5. Proposed Management CurriculumQ1 Q2 Q3
Q4*
Year 1
Team Building: 4 hrs
Conflict Management:2-4 hrs
Manage your time, manage your stress: 2 hrs (can be distance learning)
Project Management: 2 days
Monitoring and Evaluation: 1.5 days
Monitoring a Surveillance System**
Year 2
Budgeting (self paced + homework. 1 hr classtime to review)
Introduction to Leadership 2 hrs
Performance Management 4 hrs
Values Based Decision Making: 4 hrs
SMDP has almost all training materials that FETP requires for the management competency as it is defined.
Exception: M&E, budgeting – hope to complete both of these this year. Central America FETP has both of these, developed in English before translated into Spanish.
CA FETP also identified monitoring a surveillance system as a skill requirement and has a nice module for this that has been used by other FETPs, feedback – very useful.
Tho FETP standard curriculum does not include an instructional goal for monitoring a Surveillance System, it does fall into M&E competency - - we are recommending its inclusion in FETP core curriculum.
Slide shows recommended pacing of management topics, assuming:
Year 1 field work focuses on outbreak investigations, data analysis & surveillance system evaluation
Year 2 is when an analytic study is conducted and when a resident takes more of a leadership role in a project, and may be asked to mentor/supervise a year 1 resident.
We recognize that due to costs/logistics sometimes course work has to be front loaded. If this is the case we recommend that the topics listed in Q1 be taught in the first course of the program, and that the remaining topics be taught together later in year 1.