Meta-Leadership: Preparing to Lead in Public Health and Health Care

HPM 245 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

Like many T.H. Chan School graduates, you may one day find yourself in a significant public health or health care leadership position. The time to start building your skills is now. The field is facing unprecedented change. The COVID-19 pandemic underlined the importance of crisis.
You will learn pragmatic skills and foundational concepts for becoming an effective leader. This course provides a focus and framework to integrate your overall HSPH experience into your leadership trajectory. The week builds upon the concepts and practices of "meta-leadership," widely used for leading and problem solving in complex situations. The topics range from developing a better understanding for who you are as leader -- your strengths and weaknesses -- as well as techniques for developing your leadership vision, forging crucial relationships, and achieving tangible progress. You will find that you are better oriented to and capable of generating connectivity of effort among people and organizations to advance critical public health priorities. You will explore and develop your leadership passion and ways to advance population health, equity, and well-being.
The class has an active learning laboratory format, including a combination of lecture, discussion, role play exercises with on-the-spot presentations and feedback by instructors and fellow students. It will draw on relevant recent and current events. Over the course of this engaging experience, you will be participating in a robust learning community, building meaningful relationships that will endure well beyond the class.
The text for the course, You’re It: Crisis, Change and How to Lead When It Matters Most, is co-authored by the instructors. The book and classes prepare you to assume meaningful leadership roles and to advance significant change – to make a positive difference - on critical public health issues and challenges.