Public Health Leadership and Practice

Leadership & Practice is part of 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. The first part of this course will introduce key ethical frameworks and concepts relevant to leadership in public health. Students will learn to apply ethical principles of public health to core concepts of leadership, governance, and management as well as how to develop vision, strategy and change management. Students will develop strategic plans that identify stakeholders and incorporate metrics to align operational strategies, goals and overarching mission.