PBHLTH 124
Health Care and Public Health Management
Examines the management of health care and public health organizations and covers organizational design, human resources, leadership, and change management competencies. Introduces management tools and techniques for monitoring and managing change within organizations. Emphasizes how leaders use data to solve problems. Case studies emphasize how to manage human relations and demands from the external environment.
Topics
- a) Describe key priorities and challenges for health care and public health organizational leaders. b) Analyze health care and public health operational, financial, and quality of care data to inform organizational decision-making. c) Assess the tradeoffs of diverse organizational structures and designs, including divisional, functional, and matrix designs. d) Apply the enabling conditions for effective teams to design and facilitate high performing teams. e) Describe different leadership theories and how they apply to leading health care and public health organizations. f) Formulate strategies for the effective recruitment, engagement, and integration of effective governing and advisory boards. g) Analyze the key steps involved in organizational change management. h) Apply performance improvement and operational efficiency methods to health care and public health organizational performance problems.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027