Rethinking Conflict: Conflict Management for Public Health Professionals (Online workshop on 02/20/2025)

Rethinking Conflict: Conflict Management for Public Health Professionals

Note: This workshop has limited capacity. This is an online, interactive workshop on February 20, 2025 from 8:45am-12pm ET. Participants will use Zoom to join with both video and audio. This workshop is sponsored by The Region IV Public Health Training Center.

Training Description:

Studies show that managers spend upwards of 30% of their time dealing with conflict in the workplace. Conflict is not something that can or should be eliminated, but rather is something that skilled professionals can manage for greater productivity. This interactive workshop will present ways in which public health professionals can better understand the sources of conflict and strategies for managing conflict to work toward productive rather than destructive outcomes.  Participants will apply their learning of conflict styles and the way the brain works through conflict to examples from their own work experiences.

About the Trainer:

Brandy Brown Walker, Ph.D. is Public Service Associate at the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia. At the Fanning Institute, Brandy designs, develops and helps facilitate training for youth and adult leadership programs. She specializes in instructional design, technology, and community-engaged research and oversees the institute’s curriculum webinars and online leadership training. Brandy brings her expertise in adult learning, curriculum design, and instructional technology to bear in designing, developing, and delivering leadership programs for youth and adults, and her work in curriculum design and program development bridges education, research and service in a variety of ways. Through a Service-Learning fellowship, Brandy designed a new cross-disciplinary course to promote community-engaged research methods. She also works with Q-methodology personality and risk assessments, and enjoys collaborating with academic faculty on community-engaged projects.

Prior to joining the Fanning Institute, Brandy has worked and taught at Tulane University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology and the College of Education at the University of Georgia.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31680, Public Health Training Centers for $4,404,138.  The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.