This course will acquaint students with the major issues and challenges for public health in a variety of wealthy, emerging, and impoverished nations and with the impact of local or regional issues on national and/or global levels.

Designed for advanced students with research or special study interests in Public Health. Students are under guidance and confer individually with faculty. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.

Designed for advanced students with research or special study interests in Public Health. Students are under guidance and confer individually with faculty. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.

Designed for advanced students with research or special study interests in Public Health. Students are under guidance and confer individually with faculty. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.

Designed for advanced students with research or special study interests in Public Health. Students are under guidance and confer individually with faculty. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.

This course focuses on the future needs of health care organizations as contrasted with day-to-day operations management. Strategies for the design and implementation of organizational change will be addressed. The strategic planning components of environmental analyses, directional strategy, gap analysis, strategic options, goals and objectives, and performance monitoring form the basis of the course. Current trends in health care delivery and financing, marketing and performance measurements are illustrated through case analysis.

This course addresses the basic concepts and principles of healthcare ethics, including the biomedical, managerial, and organizational components and applies them using case studies, role playing, and analytical exercises. The course also examines the roles and responsibilities of healthcare governing boards and factors that influence their effectiveness.

An analysis of the development and implementation of health policy on a national, state, local and organizational level. The course will focus on issue and policy analysis, formal and informal processes of policy development and the issues, values and polical and community factors affecting policy development and program implementation.

Students will attend colloquium sessions that will supplement the core curriculum with additional application.

Supervised individual research on a topic related to health administration selected by the student. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.