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MPH Concentration in Health Leadership and Management
The MPH concentration in Health Leadership and Management (HLM) is designed to provide students with an understanding and appreciation of the challenges of organizational leadership and management in the health sector. HLM is aimed at individuals whose responsibilities require them to have the knowledge and skills essential to balance the demands of leading and managing during times of change, but who do not require or desire a full management degree.
Through the Concentration's course requirements and electives, meetings and related events, students will gain a fundamental understanding of leading and managing health organizations in a range of settings in the domestic and international settings. Samples of topics that will be covered include the following:
- Understanding the healthcare environment
- Leadership and management development
- Organizational structure and design
- Strategic management and planning
- Governance
- Organizational stakeholders
- Human resources management
- Managing change
- Quantitative tools for management
- Budgeting and financial management
- Working with teams and groups
- Approaches to process improvement
- Measuring and monitoring organizational performance
Through a variety of teaching methods (lectures, laboratories, group work, seminars, case methods, individual assignments) and application of leadership and management frameworks, students will be able to demonstrate the skills and attributes to function effectively in health sector organizations. These include: performing a stakeholder analysis and developing a detailed understanding of stakeholder expectations within an organization; analyzing problems using quantitative tools to support management and decision-making; planning strategically and setting management priorities; developing a budget based on information regarding business or service volume, staffing levels, salary rates, and supply usage and costs; team building, facilitating work team performance, acting ethically in an organization; applying performance improvement concepts and tools in order to design or redesign a specific process and using indicators to measure and monitor organizational performance.
The Health Leadership and Management concentration also sponsors a monthly film series focused on leadership and management topics which is open to the whole School.
Students are not permitted to enroll in both the Health Leadership and Management concentration and the Health Finance and Management certificate.
Course of Study
551.601 Managing Health Services Organizations* 4 units 1st term [Internet-3rd term]
551.602 Approaches to Managing Health Service Organizations [Domestic or International] 2 units 1st term 551.603 Fundamentals of Budgeting and Financial Management* 3 units 2nd term [Internet-3rd term] 551.610 Foundations of Leadership 3 units 2nd term & 3rd term 551.605 Case Studies in Management Decision-making 3 units 3rd term 312.660
Marketing in Health Care Organizations
3 units
4th term
312.621 Strategic Planning 3 units 4th term 312.633 Health Managment Information Systems 3 units 4th term, Internet only 221.661 Project Development for PHC in Developing Countries 4 units 4th term 221.722
Quality Assurance Management Methods for Developing Countries*
4 units
1st term
[Internet - 1st term]551.604 Quantitative Tools for Managers 3 units 2nd term 311.615 Quality of Medical Care 3 units 3rd term [Internet-1st term] 551.607 Pharmaceuticals Management for Under-served Populations* 3 units 3rd term 309.620 Managed Care and Health Insurance 3 units 3rd term Elective Courses: Students must choose a minimum of 2 units from any course listed above not used to meet a requirement or one of the following courses listed below: 312.617 Fundamental of Financial Accounting 3 units 1st term 313.641 Health Economics 3 units 2nd term 221.612 Confronting the Burden of Injuries 3 units 2nd term [Internet - 2nd term] 221.635 Case Studies in Primary Health Care 4 units 3rd term [Internet - 2nd term] 312.623 Financial Management in Health Care I 3 units 3rd term 313.790 Economic Evaluation I 3 units 2nd term - Internet Only 221.620 Using Summary Measures of Population Health to Improve Health Systems 4 units 4th term 312.660 Marketing in Health Care Organizations 3 units 4th term 223.664 Design & Conduct of Community Trials 4 units 3rd term 312.624 Financial Management in Health Care II 3 units 4th term 312.664 Interest-based Negotiation: Preparation, Analysis and Practice 2 units 3rd term 312.665 Conflict Management Skills Training 2 units 3rd term 312.666 Creating Agreement and Managing Conflict in a Health Care Setting 1 unit 3rd term 312.678 Introduction to Health Care Quality and Patient Safety: A Management Perspective 2 units 3rd term 313.631 Economic Evaluation II 3 units 3rd term 551.608 Managing Non-governmental Organizations in the Health Sector* 3 units 3rd term *Also fulfills MPH core requirement.
Capstone Experience
The MPH capstone experience in Health Leadership and Management provides students the opportunity to apply the competencies they acquired to clinical, technical, and management problems in health organizations. A range of options are available. Students register for the 2-unit MPH Capstone Course (XXX.800) in the fourth term. Additional units of research special studies (XXX.840) can be completed under the direction of the student's advisor or concentration-affliated faculty.
Leadership and Management Concentration Requirements
The requirements for completing a capstone project within the MPH Health Leadership and Management Concentration include all of the core requirements of all other MPH students, as described above, and on the MPH program website. In addition, students are required to provide a Leadership and Management Implications Analysis as a part of their capstone paper. Through this analysis, students will provide a discussion and recommendations for the leadership and management challenges presented by the public health problem or issue at the heart of the capstone. Students are expected to explicitly address elements of leadership and management that they believe are most important to the subject and decribe how challenges in implementing programs or resolving problems are either addressed .
This final section of the capstone paper should be titled: "Leadership and Management Implications Analysis." This section should be able to "stand alone" and be read as the final section of your paper.
Faculty Concentration Directors
Ann-Michele Gundlach, EdD, Assistant Professor, Health Policy amd Management, 410-502-0460
Anbrasi Edward, PhD, MPH, MBA, Assistant Scientist, International Health, 410-502-7663