Program: OMPH
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Public Health Leadership II: Systems Thinking for Public Health Leaders
Explores leadership and systems thinking to address complex public health issues. Prepares students to partner with a variety of stakeholders and participate in community-based coalitions. Students create problem statements and systems maps, apply an equity lens to solving public health issues, set programmatic goals, develop strategies to improve health, and discuss financing strategies for sustainable…
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Public Health Leadership I: Organizational and Financial Management
Covers the organizational and financial management of public health organizations. Organizational management topics include decision making, managing employees, diversity, leadership, and strategic planning. Financial management topics include financial reports, determining program costs, budgeting, and financial program evaluation. Students work on case studies and a final project that integrate the two disciplines.
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Health Policy and the Public’s Health
Explores the factors that affect health policy and the interaction of policy, markets, and the legal system through public health examples. Examines how science and community values intertwine in policy development, and how context influences the structure of and changes to a nation’s health system.
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Project Management in Public Health
Focuses on project management skills necessary to work effectively in the public health environment. Students learn how to design and conduct needs assessments, create planning and implementation documents, manage resources, plan for sustainability, monitor and evaluate projects, and address cost, time, and scope constraints.
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Health Program Evaluation
Focuses on the use of evaluations within health programs. Discusses how program evaluations utilize research methods to answer questions concerning efficacy, implementation, and drivers of changes in health. It also looks at the reasons for creating program evaluations — the drivers of evaluation, how results can be transformed into action, and the role of equity…
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Applied Research Methods in Public Health
Skills and knowledge necessary to conduct orderly investigation of specific problems in preparation for Master of Public Health thesis or Capstone project. Includes problem identification, posing research questions, literature review, consideration of theoretical and practical context, choosing study design, methods review and selection, protection of human subjects, and recognizing potential errors. Prerequisite: registration in Online…
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Health Communication and Marketing for Health Promotion: Theory and Practice
Provides an introduction to the field of health communication and social marketing. Focuses on how persuasive communication and marketing are most effectively used to improve population health and reduce inequities. Students develop and present a health communication campaign proposal.
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Environmental and Occupational Health for Public Health Practitioners
Introduces students in professional degree programs in Public Health to basic concepts from environmental and occupational health sciences, to the methods used to study the links between the environment and health, to the health impacts of various environmental exposures, and to the environmental public health approach to controlling or managing risks and promoting health.
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Problems in Global Health
Explores social, political, economic, and environmental determinants of health and societal responses to health problems globally. Covers impact of colonialism, equity strategies, Primary Health Care, neoliberalism, war, international agencies, the climate crisis, water, sanitation, and traditional health systems.