Faculty
Stephen Orton, PhD
Deputy Director, Executive Education
NC Institute for Public Health School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus
Box 8165
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
Phone: 919- 966-8125
Fax: 919- 843-2629
stephen_orton@unc.edu
Areas of expertise
Business Planning, Executive Education, Writing and Communication
Bio
Stephen Orton manages executive education programs at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health. Since April 1999, he has been the program manager for the award-winning Management Academy for Public Health (MAPH), which began as a $2.8 million pilot project to train 600 public health managers in four southeastern states. MAPH is a joint program of the School of Public Health and the Kenan-Flagler Business School and is now a national program. MAPH received the Provost's Award for Outstanding Service to North Carolinians in 2004.
Dr. Orton is also co-director of the PREVENT program, Preventing Violence through Education, Networking and Technical Assistance, as a partner to the Injury Prevention Research Center at UNC. The program is a partnership funded through a four-year, $3.6 million cooperative agreement with CDC.
He has also been part of the management team for the Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute, a sister program to MAPH, and the online Management Certificate program, initially developed as a spin-off from MAPH (now managed through the department of Health Policy and Administration).
Dr. Orton has coordinated training and evaluation programs at the School of Public Health since 1994. He periodically teaches business communication and writing courses as an adjunct in the department of Health Policy and Administration at UNC and as an adjunct assistant professor in the Public Administration department at North Carolina State University. He taught and tutored in the UNC Writing Program for eight years before earning his PhD in 1998.
Dr. Orton has helped write grants for a number of funded projects at the Institute, including the PREVENT project, the National Public Health Leadership Institute, the Public Health Training Center, and the Kellogg Emerging Leaders in Public Health program.