Public Health Leadership

Catalog description

This course is one of the fundamental components of the public health graduate program and is appropriate for any students intending to fulfill degree requirements. Leadership is one of the essential courses with cross-cutting themes for interdisciplinary public health professionals. The leadership course will teach current and aspiring public health leaders to apply leadership principles in a public health context. It will provide students with the knowledge and skills they need to lead teams, projects, organizations and systems in eliminating inequities, improving conditions and fostering change in local and global communities. Skills in public health leadership are needed at every level in clinical, community based and workplace settings, and hiring new talent with fresh perspectives is a priority for nongovernmental and governmental clinical and public health organizations. The course will draw on a variety of cases from a range of public health leadership situations in diverse settings and will incorporate many of the other disciplines taught in the MPH program.