Leadership in Public Health: Transforming Self & Systems II

DRPH 242 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Leadership in Public Health: Transforming Self & Systems II is an extension of the DrPH 240 course that forms the foundation of the DrPH's leadership development within the Enabling Change curriculum. The DrPH leadership development programming is rooted in understanding and applying leadership theory to practice. This course emphasizes learning through experiential exercises, reflective practices, and applied situational analysis. The landscape of public health is deeply complex and rapidly changing. Public health leaders understand systemic problems, set new directions, lead change, and learn quickly from mistakes. Public health leaders connect with and inspire others to join them in addressing the most intractable population health challenges. The transformational public health leader develops this capacity through an ongoing cycle of experience, study, introspection, and application. In the DrPH 240 course, students learn ways of expanding and altering their perception of themselves. In DrPH 242, students are asked to deepen their understanding of themselves within the systems they operate within and seek to change.