leadership in public health management :certificate course

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Dear forum members,

This may be useful to u.The details are as follows.

Admissions Open for " Leadership In Public Health Management "

certificate program.

This program is now offered in two structures, a WEEKEND course,

which will be held over full teaching days on Saturday, and half

days on Sundays during January – June 09 and the REGULAR PART TIME

course, which will be for 10 weeks and will be spread over 24 weeks

during the period January – June 2009.

The course is certified & approved by Maharashtra University of

Health Sciences, South Asia Public Health Leadership Institute at

Avni Health Foundation, Dr. S. Nayar School of Public Health

(Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences), Seth G.S Medical

College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, LTMMC & LTMGH (Sion Hospital),

Mumbai and technically supported by Sparkman Center for Global

Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at

Birmingham, USA and Vanderbilt University Institute for Global

Health, School of Medicine, USA.

This unique program accepts graduates* and equips candidates with

the management skills and leadership required to design, plan,

manage and oversee public health programs in addition to building

technical capacity on public health issues. Considering that there

is no dearth of resources but poor health systems management and

limited accountability channels the course is designed to create

leaders who can take on the systemic public health challenges that

face the country.

Both courses will cover the following 8 modules - Introduction to

Public Health, Leadership and Management, Behavior Change

Communication, Research Methodology including Monitoring &

Evaluation, Reproductive and Child Health, Tuberculosis and Other

Communicable Diseases, RTI/STI, HIV/AIDS and Life Style Disorders,

Professional Development.

An individual doing this course;

• Develops and strengthens effective leadership qualities

backed by practical field oriented solutions for programmatic

interventions, conceptualizing and operationalizing the integration

of activities of the public health programs.

• Is able to prepare project plans, strategies, tactics,

activities with budgets and monitoring and control mechanisms.

• Is able to prepare BCC plans.

• Is able to use – Power point, Excel, SPSS, and EpiInfo.

• Based on information and analytical reports is able to

facilitate prompt and effective corrective actions for the purpose

of planning.

• Gets exposed to both rural and urban public health

challenges and their management.

• Gets exposed to International & National faculty.

• Benefits through an overall Personality Development eg.

Public speaking, presentation skills, How to conduct a meeting? How

to write a CV? , How to give an interview? How to conduct an

interview? etc ……and many more …..

*You will get all the details of the course on www.avnihealth.org or

www.muhsnashik.com

Dr Daksha Pandit

e-mail:<drdaksha@...>