VTPEH 6172

Leading Change for Health Equity, Sustainability, and Justice

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024. Courses of Study 2023-2024 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Issues related to health equity, sustainability, social and environmental justice are considered complex or wicked problems. To understand and begin to address these, a strategic leadership toolkit is needed. Week-by-week, this seminar will help build that toolkit. We'll review what wicked problems are, how change happens, and the roles that we can play as public health leaders; we'll revisit methods used to rapidly assess and evaluate the current state, and compare that to the ideal (future) state; we'll practice compiling an evidence base for use to inform actions; and we'll practice professional writing (white papers) and oral pitches. Students will define a project scope, develop a work plan, conduct a literature review, draft a project report outline, identify and accessed relevant data, reviewed data to inform action, and draft a project report that could be submitted to a 'client'.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to MPH students; Graduate and Undergraduate students with permission of instructor. 

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