Every year a new cohort of Baldrige Executive Fellows gains intensive knowledge about leading organizations to excellence through cross-sector, peer-to-peer learning hosted at the sites of Baldrige Award recipients. Every Baldrige Fellow completes a capstone project as part of the executive leadership program.

A paper on the capstone project of Julie M. Kapp, a 2014 Baldrige Fellow, is being published this month in Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Kapp is an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Informatics at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri.

Following is an interview of Kapp about the publication of the Baldrige-based approach to U.S. population health.

Baldrige: What inspired your capstone project?

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