Course Description

Prerequisite: None

Designed to provide students with the practice-based knowledge and skills necessary for the functional management of local, state, and federal health agencies. Topics include: administrative structure, governance, management issues, financing of public health programs, public budgetary development and approval process, political and medial influence on public health programs, intergovernmental relations, public sector-private sector collaboration, application of legislative and regulatory principles, public health program planning, and media relations and risk communication.