Curriculum

Audience

The Academy serves health managers in governmental public health and in the broader public health system, including hospitals, health associations, and grass-roots organizations. The curriculum has been custom-designed for managers that have significant management responsibility and health background but may lack formal management training.

Priority will be given to teams with a community partner. All teams should include at least one public health manager.

Managers who have attended leadership institutes will find the curriculum is complementary. Most leadership institutes (such as the Southeast Public Health Leadership Institute or the national Public Health Leadership Institute ) focus on big-picture aspects of the leader's job: media relations, visioning, motivating, systems thinking, strategic planning, policy development.

Management Academy does not teach policy development: it teaches how to make policies work. We teach management fundamentals. Instead of media, we teach basic business communication skills like writing and presenting. Instead of strategic planning for an entire organization, we teach business planning: how to operationalize one part of an existing strategic plan. Instead of visioning and motivating, we teach delegation and measuring work.