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The following are a selection of leadership-related courses offered at the School of Public Health and UC Berkeley.
Politics, Policy, and Practice in Public Health PH 298.61 (CCN 76721), 2 units Spring 2012 We will explore how public health is actually practiced in state, local, and community settings, and how public health policy is made and implemented. Through lectures, readings, guest presentations, and case studies we will investigate both traditional and new approaches to the practice of public health. Students will grapple with the barriers to change that face public health agencies as they try to meet the needs of communities in the 21st century. We will ask how broad social issues can be framed in public health terms so that policy makers, the public, and community organizations can view those issues from new perspectives.
Dr. Horton is a pediatrician and former Director of the California Department of Public Health and State Public Health Officer; Director of Health for the State of Nebraska; Director of Public Health and Health Officer for the County of Orange; and Vice President of Community Programs at Children’s Hospital San Diego. He has 18 years of clinical experience and has held several academic appointments, in addition to his formal public health training.
Professional Development Workshop Series PH 291 / Spring PH 291 is a series of skills-based workshops designed to introduce students to specialized skills needed in the public health workplace. These workshops are intended to complement the core curriculum of the School of Public Health (SPH) and are selected based on regular feedback from public health practitioners, faculty and students. Workshop facilitators include consultants, CPHP field supervisors, UC Berkeley Lecturers, and public health practitioners with expertise in the subject. This course is open to all graduate students in the SPH. You need not be enrolled to attend.
Video & Public Health Leadership: Using Video & New Media for Advocacy, Participatory Evaluation, & Action Research PH 290.005 / Spring & Fall More information on this course is available here. This new course provides students with critical knowledge and experience in video production, participatory new media, visual methods for research/evaluation, and advocacy, while exploring the topic of leadership development. We will introduce new media practices future leaders will need to be at the cutting edge of research and advocacy. Students will learn these skills in the context of a real world evaluation for the SPH Center for Health Leadership. Students will participate in designing the research questions, carry out the research using video, and produce media products used to communicate their findings. The course is divided into 2 semesters, with students participating in one or both semesters: I love this class! Not only is it a ton of fun, but it also provided me with some very practical tools for public health practice. Video is a great way to communicate research findings to a wider audience, advocate for public health campaigns, and add a participatory element to public health research and practice. So it’s super awesome that the Berkeley School of Public Health has a class devoted to the use of video in public health! I’m also acquiring countless new skills in video production, video editing, storytelling, teamwork, and leadership. For example, I now know that asking for “feedforward” (rather than feedback) from your teammates is a great way of improving your teamwork skills as you move forward with a project. I’m excited to take these skills into my eventual career as a public health professional. Culture, Public Health Practice and Eliminating Health Disparities: From Ideas to Action in the 21st Century PH 204F / Spring Public health literature and practice make frequent reference to the terms culture, cultural competence, race, racism, ethnicity, and health disparities. Understanding these terms, their complex meanings and current application in public health practice is the subject matter of this course. By the end of the course students will be able to describe the concepts of culture, race, racism, ethnicity, cultural competence, cultural humility, health disparities and their use in public health theory and practice; identify and describe the application of these concepts in local public health practice; and demonstrate an understanding of these concepts and their application in public health practice through the completion of a group project. Culture, Public Health Practice and Eliminating Health Disparities is a course that is rooted in discussion and action. It was an amazing opportunity to unpack difficult issues surrounding health disparities as a group and then choose a project addressing your individual issue of interest. Projects are student led and ranged from food justice and addressing cultural competency training for physicians, to performing a needs assessment of the Latino businesses and resources in Berkeley. This course teaches how to take a fruitful discussion and turn it into a positive impact on the community. What can you do with a degree in Public Health? PH291A / Fall This class was originally requested by students to help identify the many options available to students obtaining both bachelors and masters degrees in public health. It is estimated that in the next five years there will be a need for over 250,000 professionals in the field of public health. This shortage of health leaders and professionals covers all aspects of the field of public health and provides great challenges and opportunities. This course was designed to provide students with a dynamic experience to assess and evaluate their professional and career development concerns while exploring the foundations of the field of public health. Over the course of the semester, students will be able to meet and network with public health professionals from a wide array of disciplines. This class is especially valuable for students with interests in many aspects of public health who want to narrow down their focus by getting exposure to diverse professionals in the field. The prominent speakers were often leaders in their respective disciplines and discussed their career paths, interests, emerging trends, and current motivations for working in the field. The course allows plenty of time for question and answer and is especially useful for networking opportunities. I highly recommend it, especially for undergraduates considering a future degree in Public Health.
Courses offered by the School of Public Health Effective Public Health Negotiations: Principles, Processes and Practices PH 298.025 The ability to secure enduring agreements is an essential skill for a successful public health leader or manager. This elective course integrates both lecture and experiential components in order to expose students to the major theories and specific tactics that underlie effective negotiating. It will also offer repeated opportunity to practice to develop the skills needed and to build awareness of personal styles. Given the complexities of the health care environment, negotiation exercises will include both health care and non-health care situations. Non health care negotiations will focus on practical situations that all management professionals face (e.g. salary negotiations). Students will be evaluated on their understanding of relevant theory and their ability to apply it across several individual and team negotiations. The negotiations course is a must take for students of any discipline, especially public health. It provided valuable tools, such as tips, tricks, and critical thinking skills that will be helpful to students as they navigate the professional world. These tools are applicable to everything from salary negotiations to budget decision making to the interplay between hospitals, insurance plans, and providers - all areas which students of public health will encounter. Public Health Interventions: Theory, Practice, and Research PH 201E / Spring This course focuses on the primary factors that affect health and the interventions that can promote health. Students examine the determinants of health and the theory, history, types, ethics, and approaches of public health interventions. Community level interventions and multidisciplinary approaches receive special emphasis. The course stresses a rigorous critique of the outcomes of interventions and practical ways to improve them. Students take an active role in the design and conduct of the course. Community Organizing and Community Building for Health PH 204D / Fall This course emphasizes community organizing and community building as major approaches to creating healthy communities and fostering broader social change. It further examines the role of public health practitioners as change agents, stressing in particular the values and ethical issues that arise within the context of diverse and multicultural communities. Both advancement of theoretical knowledge and the development of skills in applying such knowledge in the areas of community organizing and community building will be stressed. This is a Service Learning Course, and students wishing to undertake a concurrent field project can earn an additional optional unit of credit. Multicultural Competence in Public Health PH 204E / Fall This class will focus on developing a functional understanding of cultural competence and will initiate the student in developing culturally competent tools. Understanding the basic assumptions of the public health system, discovering one's own cultural biases, and learning an approach which values diversity as well as respects cultural issues related to approach and process. Will enable the student to be more effective as a public health practioner. This course will achieve these goals through a combined approach of lecture, discussion, and class presentations of a case study. Strategic Management and the Organization of Health Services PH 223C / Spring The overall purpose of this course is to assist the student in managing health care organizations from a strategic perspective. This is accomplished by systematically addressing system-wide, organization-wide, group- and individual-level issues in strategy formulation, content, implementation, and performance. Emphasis is placed upon the manager's role in simultaneously taking into account a wide variety of internal and external factors to improve organization and system performance in meeting the health needs of individuals and communities. Emphasis is also placed on the development and implementation of strategies to meet multiple stakeholder demands, with particular attention given to continuous quality improvement/total quality management approaches. The course will cover a wide variety of health care organizations including physician group practices, health systems, hospitals, HMOs, suppliers, pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The course builds on Business Administration 205: Organizational Behavior and 223A: Medical Care Organization. Information Systems in Public Health PH 243C / Spring An introduction to new information systems, such as the Internet and interactive television, and how they may be used to improve human health. The course has three objectives: first, to familiarize students with new information technologies; second, to review how these technologies will be used by public health professionals, consumers, health care providers, and others; and third, to study related ethical and legal issues such as privacy, access, and liability. The course is designed for people with minimal understanding of interactive technologies. Offered by Other UCB Graduate Schools Leadership and Strategy PP 260 / Fall This course examines the political, organizational, and social factors involved in delivering better services, implementing new policies, and empowering groups to more effectively achieve their own ends. Materials will include case studies, theoretical, empirical, and interpretive works from several disciplines. This course offers students a refreshingly practical look on a classic topic. Reich teases apart the complexity of leadership and strategic decision-making in a highly interactive and engaging course through dissecting theories of leadership and applying them to real-world case studies. The course is set up in a way such that students can engage differently based on personal interest. Highlights for me were being regaled with fascinating anecdotes from Reich's expansive government and policy work and a heavy focus on leadership in action throughout the semester-long group project. Ethics, Policy and the Power of Ideas PP 280 / Fall This seminar brings together two related frames for policy thinking: the ethics of policy, that is, what does it mean to do the right thing? and the intervention of policy, that is, how do new policy paradigms emerge? Ethics: Those who seek to govern well inescapably confront questions of value in their political, professional, and personal choices. The discussion of ethical dilemmas, which will take up the first half of the semester, is designed to provoke analytic reflection on the moral challenges and responsibilities of public policymaking in a democracy. The focus is on the many and often competing obligations, commitments and values that should guide public actors, as well as on the public principles that guide the design of good public policy. Big Ideas: Politics and conventional analytics dominate policy in the short run. But over the longer term, conceptualizations as varied as exit/voice/loyalty, satisficing, the tipping point, memes, winner-take-all, strong democracy, broken windows, and the prisoner’s dilemma profoundly influence the policy conversation. Group, Organizational and Community Dynamics SW 210I Course examines theories of group, organization, and community dynamics. Topics include group leadership and decision-making, organizational goals, structure, and change, and community power and demographics. This course is theoretical not practice based, with the idea of getting more practice classes in later semesters. The structure is a combination of lecture, group presentations, and class discussions. The assignments include attending and analyzing a community event and analyzing the structure of an organization. Through lots of practice, each student becomes more comfortable with creating concept maps as tools for analyzing and explaining groups, communities, and organizations. It is a helpful grounding course for students interested in management and organizational structure. Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations EW/MBA 292A-1 This is a new course to introduce students to strategic management issues in the nonprofit sector. The course will cover key issues in founding, leading, managing, and governing nonprofit organizations and new nonprofit ventures, including organizational mission, strategic analysis and planning, board governance, multiple constituencies, partnerships and collaborations, human resources, financial management, fundraising and resource development, and performance measurement and impact. Nonprofit Boards: Governance and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations EW/MBA 292B-1 This course examines the roles and responsibilities of members of nonprofit boards of directors. Generally, they establish strategic direction, raise money, and exercise financial oversight. Students will identify and develop the leadership and management skills necessary to be an effective board member. Using board assessment instruments and self-assessment activities, the class will seek to determine "fit" between different types of boards and class participants. Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations EW/MBA292F In order to be an effective leader in the nonprofit field, one must have a solid grounding in financial management. This course is designed to develop the core financial management skills needed by board members and seniors managers in large and small organizations. Students will learn the tools and techniques for effective planning and budgeting as well as how to control, evaluate and revise plans. The course will address current regulations and issues that impact nonprofit financial management. The use and development of internal and external financial reports will be studied with an emphasis on using financial information in decision-making. Tools and techniques of financial statement analysis, interpretation and presentation will be discussed and practiced. Social Entrepreneurship MBA 292N-2 / Spring This course explores how to utilize social entrepreneurship to generate social impact efficiently, effectively, and sustainably through two primary means: 1) organizational level growth and innovation and 2) catalyzing networks, requiring the mobilization of a vast array of actors and resources across organization and sector boundaries, and having the potential to generate rapid and sustained social impact. Case topics include social entrepreneurship in climate change/energy, microfinance, health, and international development. |
