Local-Global Public Health Leadership

Catalog description

Leadership in Public Health is a two-semester sequence of courses designed for students to develop and refine leadership skills to transition to leadership and management roles. These two courses complement each other, but do not have to be taken in a specific order. A large focus of these two courses is on the role of the students as leaders in their own organizations or in those in which they hope to work in the future. In this course, students will learn to apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges, integrate perspectives from other sectors and/or professions to promote and advance population health, and develop a strategic plan to guide an organization through changes caused by public health issues. Other leadership tools and techniques include mediating organizational change with available resources and integrating innovative and creative strategies.