The Pediatric Leadership Alliance (PLA) is a proprietary physician leadership program of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The program is highly interactive and incorporates case studies, team-based exercises and tools to help participants in their leadership journey, and uses evidence-based leadership principles as its core curriculum. The PLA is built upon Kouse’s and Posner’s five practices of exemplary leadership, and includes an individual leadership assessment and a learning agreement to participants to measure their development. It is offered in the format of a series of didactic lectures followed by other modalities shown to enhance participant interactions. The PLA focuses on developing the core competencies for public health leadership as identified by the U.S National Pu