In addition to the overall Master of Public Health degree competencies, Public Health Administration graduates will be able to: Domain: Management and Planning - Integrate operational planning and management tools for performance and quality improvement;
- Understand informatics methods and resources as tools to promote public health;
- Build analytical thinking acumen, e.g., the ability to understand any issue by delving into its relevant components and formulating solutions;
- Apply theory and strategy-based communication principles across different settings and audiences;
- Demonstrate team building, negotiation, and conflict management skills;
- Develop strategies to motivate others for collaborative problem solving, decision-making, and evaluation;
- Promote high standards of personal and organizational integrity, compassion, honesty and respect for all people;
- Describe the tasks necessary to assure that program implementation occurs as intended;
- Explain the contribution of logic models in program development, implementation, and evaluation;
- Differentiate among goals, measurable objectives, related activities, and expected outcomes for a public health program;
- Identify characteristics of a system;
- Acquire an in-depth knowledge of the concepts, rationale, and development of health services planning and evaluation;
- Gain skills and knowledge of methodologies of the health services planning and evaluation process and its major tools;
- Become oriented to information needs regarding community, institutional and individual health assessment and on the use of quantitative and qualitative methods for enhancing information;
- Be able to present the concepts and skills in an integrated fashion in a project report [the workbook];
- Integrate the assessment and evaluation of equity and ethical delivery of services into an actual program through a series of real world exercises; and
- Demonstrate planning and evaluation approaches for diverse populations within a given geographic area.
Law and Ethics - Apply legal and ethical principles to the use of information technology and resources in public health settings;
- Explain how professional ethics and practices relate to equity and accountability in diverse community settings;
- Apply social justice and human rights principles when addressing community needs;
- Apply basic principles of ethical analysis (e.g. the Public Health Code of Ethics, human rights framework, other moral theories) to issues of public health practice and policy;
- Analyze the potential impacts of legal and regulatory environments on the conduct of ethical public health research and practice;
- Distinguish between population and individual ethical considerations in relation to the benefits, costs, and burdens of public health programs;
- Embrace a definition of public health that captures the unique characteristics of the field (e.g., population-focused, community-oriented, prevention-motivated and rooted in social justice) and how these contribute to professional practice;
- Analyze the effects of political, social and economic policies on public health systems at the local, state, national and international levels; and
- Analyze the impact of global trends and interdependencies on public health related problems and systems.
Financial Management - Understand and construct financial statements, applying ratio analysis and pro forma statement generation;
- Apply financial management theory and principles to make decisions that promote financial well-being of the organization;
- Execute financial mathematics, e.g., time value of money calculations, capital budgeting, return on investment, and project risk analyses;
- Understand differences in public health financial management; and
- Perform differential reimbursement calculations by payers (e.g., Medicare/Medicaid, self-pay, managed care).
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