Leadership for Public Health Crises

Coursera MOOC / Non-credit USD 49
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Leadership for Public Health Crises

About this course

Leadership for Public Health Crises will enable current and prospective managers, directors, unit heads, and elected officials to effectively lead their organizational response to profound health-related emergencies and to build leadership capacity across multiple sectors, agencies, organizations, and divisions. This series of courses prepares graduate students (in, e.g., public administration, public health, social work, business, homeland security, education, and related fields) and practitioners in a range of roles in this broader arena who seek to attain or advance in leadership roles. The courses focus on foundational competencies required to confidently and competently lead in preparation for and response to far-reaching health-related crises, including communication, cross-agency collaboration, organizational contingency planning, and data analysis, especially as these relate to civilian sectors. To learn more about the Leadership for Public Health Crises specialization, please watch the overview video by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHhzlgdHIxU

What you'll learn

  • communication skills
  • cross-agency collaboration
  • organizational contingency planning
  • data analysis related to public health

Course objectives

  • prepare students to lead organizational responses to health crises
  • build leadership capacity across multiple sectors

Skills you'll gain

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