Practice of Public Health Leadership

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

Classroom Block

Subject Quota: 45

120hours

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For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.
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This subject introduces students to the real world of public health. It builds on from the compulsory Public Health Leadership and Management Subject to provide an understanding of how different leaders practice how decisions are made and how resources are allocated; an understanding of the organisation you work in and lastly an understanding of yourself as a leader.
It examines leadership from political, bureaucratic, business, media and community perspectives at international, national, and local levels. It also covers advocacy and methods for getting public health issues onto the public agenda.
In examining your/an organisation it looks at power structures, people of influence, the characteristics of good leaders and the fundamentals of leading, managing and being a member of a team. Finally, it looks at the elements that are important for successful living, an integral part of successful leadership.
Senior political, bureaucratic, business and public health leaders are invited to present on this subject.

Upon completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Analyse and define the key characteristics of successful leaders, studied and observed during he course
• Understand the key challenges in contemporary public health leadership roles
• Develop their own plan for further developing and practising leadership skills in their lives
• Develop a strategy to put a public health issue onto the political/community agenda,
• Map pathways they can follow to become successful leaders in public health,
• Reflect and develop a greater understanding of their own selves and mechanisms they can use to lead successful lives, not only be successful leaders.
• Demonstrate and practise leadership and followership skills in a team

Group presentation on a specified topic due on the final teaching day of the subject (20%); journal reflection exercise of 1,000 words due 10 days after the final teaching day of the subject; final written assignment of 3,000 words due 6 weeks after the final teaching day of the subject (60%).

Students will be issued key readings for this subject.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Upon completion of this subject, students will have developed skills in:

• Critical thinking and analysis,
• Finding, evaluating and using relevant information,
• Problem-solving,
• Written communication.