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Stephen Noyes Orton

Deputy Director
Office of Executive Education
NC Institute for Public Health

Associate Director
Public Health Leadership Institute

• I started at the Institute as the manager of the Management Academy for Public Health in 1999, and...

• ...I co-authored a book describing what we've learned as a result of working with over 1,000 public health managers / entrepreneurs since then. The book is Business Planning in Public Health. My co-authors Anne Menkens and Pamela Santos and I support the book with a blog-- come say hello or read more about what's happening around business planning and entrepreneurs in public health!

• I'm honored to work with great partners and great staff members in Chapel Hill on several other programs that have grown up in the Institute's Office of Executive Education: the Emerging Leaders in Public Health program is an off-shoot of MAPH, initially funded by Kellogg Foundation; the custom program called Leadership Novant that has served as an important laboratory for cutting-edge development ideas; I helped redesign and now help manage the national Public Health Leadership Institute; I support the people who run the Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute and the on-line Certificate Programs in the School of Public Health.

• I WON THE STANLEY CUP in 2002-- Go Canes! I'm an intermittent runner (my daughter put me up to it); I learned to juggle pins (my other daughter put me up to that one); I like skiing out West; I like singing and guitar; I do some gardening but that seems to be more of a genetic instinct than anything; I still think email is the killer app, despite the completely justified backlash about how people are using it..

"They told me that North Carolina was not like Virginia and South Carolina and it was not.... We liked Chapel Hill we liked the hotel, you ate well, we liked the professors and the men and women and I liked walking and then there was a place a sort of tower and it had newly planted box hedges around it and it looked like a water tower but it was not a water tower and when I went inside to read what was cut into it, it said that it was erected by a family the name was given and that was all that there was to it. No war no peace no anything, there was a family and it had a name there was a tower and there were lots of box hedges around it and they were small now but some time they would be larger. That was at Chapel Hill."

Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (251-52)