PUBH 330 Public Health Leadership and Management

5 credits

This course presents core concepts of public health structure and leadership, including organizational design as it relates to workplace diversity, managing versus leading professionals, and overall system function.

Prerequisites: BHAV 311 or PUBH 301

Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Analyze the characteristics needed by a leader in the public health field
Outline organizational strategic plans and collaborate in developing a vision for a healthy community
Examine internal and external facilitators and barriers that affect the delivery of the 10 Essential Public Health Services
Analyze the impact of change within healthcare organizations and the role of the leader/manager in this change process
Explain how public health, health care, and other organizations can work together or individually to impact the health of a community
Explain public health and health care funding mechanisms and procedures
Evaluate financial analysis methods used in making decisions about policies, programs, and services

Program Outcomes
This course teaches to the following program outcomes:

Apply the fundamental principles of public health to individual, community, and population health issues to study disease incidence and prevalence
Investigate concepts in public health ethics and healthcare leadership and management, including the right to health care, public health research/bioethics, social justice, economic impacts, conflict between autonomy and health promotion strategies, and public health theory and practice

Total Hours: 50 Theory (Lecture) Hours: 50