This course teaches the theories and practice of administration as they are applied in public health settings. It addresses knowledge and applications of the functions of public health management and their relationship to organizational effectiveness.

Health policies and market forces impact the U.S. health care system in terms of access, cost, and quality. This course provides the perspective that economic reasoning is a valuable critical thinking approach to social science inquiry and demonstrates how this perspective helps students understand health care policy and market issues.

This course will introduce students to basic concepts in disease mapping and data visualization using a variety of software packages. These will include Excel from Microsoft, EpiInfo from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), QGIS from the open-source QGIS Project, and more. Students will use these tools to gain experience producing figures and tables appropriate for publication in epidemiologic manuscripts.

This course provides the student with knowledge and skills in understanding and practicing evidence-based public health: applying scientific reasoning, systematic use of data and information systems, and appropriate public health theories to the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective programs and policies in public health. The course will emphasize online data, tools, and other resources that support the evidence-based decision making process.

This course will demonstrate how changes in health behavior can and do impact population-level indicators of morbidity and mortality. Within the context of the socioecological framework, students will focus on health behavior theories and interventions targeting the organizational, community, and societal levels of the framework, as well as multilevel interventions. Students will apply an intervention mapping approach to identify priority needs for health promotion and design health promotion programs.

The course will familiarize students with the application of law to management issues in healthcare organizations. Skills addressed include terminology, legal reasoning, the tools of law, and topics specific to healthcare settings.

This course covers the basics of operations including management of productivity, quality, and inventory as well as process improvement, capacity and throughput analysis and benchmarking. Development of operational performance metrics and basics of both project management and supply chain management are also covered. The focus is on developing tools to support decision making under conditions of uncertainty, risk, and multiple objectives.

This course covers the basics of operations including management of productivity, quality, and inventory as well as process improvement, capacity and throughput analysis and benchmarking. Development of operational performance metrics and basics of both project management and supply chain management are also covered. The focus is on developing tools to support decision making under conditions of uncertainty, risk, and multiple objectives.

Managerial experience in a healthcare setting is an essential component of the health administration educational process. An administrative internship, also referred to as the internship, provides the student with the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom in healthcare organizations under the guidance of a senior healthcare administrator with faculty oversight.

This course will consist of an internship in a foreign country, preferably in a resource-limited setting. Students will have both a University of Kentucky and a local mentor, and will develop a plan for participating in some type of health-related project or activity during a four-week period. A paper or presentation summarizing the key components of the internship experience will be submitted upon returning to Lexington.