Connie Revell has been working with the performance partnership model since the early 1990s. Currently, Ms. Revell is the former deputy director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco. As a specialist in results-based accountability and partnerships for results, she brought to the Center a wealth of experience in organizational dynamics. She has helped form partnerships around teenage pregnancy, watershed protection, national security, infant mortality, homelessness and other topics before becoming involved in tobacco control.
With this expertise, she has worked as a consultant for a number of state and local governments in Oregon, Hawaii, Minnesota, Vermont, Michigan and Washington. Her international work was primarily in Canada, Western Australia, Tasmania, and Sierra Leone, West Africa.
From 1995 to 1999 she was director of the Oregon Option, part of the reinventing government initiative of the Clinton-Gore administration. Ms. Revell worked more than ten years in Oregon state government helping develop the Oregon Benchmarks, the state’s measurable indicators of progress toward its twenty-year vision. Much of this work focused on public health, and she served as president of the National Public Health Information Coalition in 1994.
A former journalist with degrees from the University of Montana and Stanford University, she is the recipient of Vice President Gore’s Hammer Award for Reinventing Government. She also received a citation from Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber for her work on partnerships.
- How can partnering benefit public health, and in the case of tobacco, help decrease smoking prevalence?
- What are the steps of the model? How does it work?
- What are the key roles to implementing a Performance Partnership summit?
- What makes it different from coalitions?