MOOCs

Designed for working professionals, Public Health Leadership: Leadership in Crisis emphasizes practical application of leadership theory to public health crises. Former US Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, MD, MPH, Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Health, brings valuable experience and insights from around the world for delivering effective crisis management. 

• All MOOCs are self-paced.

• Cost: Free

• Duration: 1-3 weeks

Learn the key ingredients of realizing program value, enable managing change across complex stakeholders and understand the change management processes. Successfully implementing change is built on healthy project management and strategy execution practices and connecting the dots across change initiatives while working closely with the management team. Achieving the buy-in of key stakeholders by building on best practices techniques like Kotter is necessary to become the future change scientist.

• All MOOCs are self-paced.

• Cost: $309 paid-for certification

• Duration: 4 weeks

Public Health Informatics is critical for informed decision-making for those who affect public health. The purpose of this course, Applied Public Health Informatics for Leaders, is to provide leaders and aspiring leaders with an overview of key principles, tools, methodologies, data sources, terminologies, and policy issues as they relate to the importance of public health informatics to public health leaders. An overview of national e-Health, public health, and health care reform priorities and strategies, and their implications for public health leadership will help you to learn the landscape and for effective application. 

• All MOOCs are self-paced.

• Cost: Free

• Duration: 5 hours

Learn how to engage communities through powerful storytelling, data visualization, and persuasive presence to motivate action on complex environmental projects. 

• All MOOCs are self-paced.

• Cost: $199 paid-for certification

• Duration: 5 weeks

1 of 3 in the Environmental Project Management series. In this course you’ll learn how to improve your project management communication in your work environment and motivate and engage communities with clear communication to address complex environmental problems. As an environmental advocate or project manager, your active listening skills and effective communication skills are paramount to in person team members, remote teams, general employee engagement, and even more so for achieving success. The first step in solving complex societal and environmental problems is to rally support around the idea that there is a problem worth solving and that can be solved. This is achieved with good communication, teamwork, and clarifying data visualization. 

• All MOOCs are self-paced.

• Cost: Free

• Duration: 1-3 weeks

2 of 3 in the Environmental Project Management series. In this course, we are building from the point of having successfully completed Stakeholder Outreach. This means that the major complex problem has been identified, measured, and distilled into a powerful narrative that can engage stakeholders to drive them to the next step: Stakeholder Collaboration. To get started, we need to orient towards "why" we need to collaborate after collaboration. The answer? Problem complexity. Tackling complexity is a task no one person can do by its definition. 

• All MOOCs are self-paced.

• Cost: Free

• Duration: 1-3 weeks

3 of 3 in the Environmental Project Management series. In this Professional Certificate program, you will learn key project management skills needed for project execution on complex social and environmental issues. You will learn how to work on your project team collaborating to reduce environmental impact and achieve sustainability. You will develop communication competencies necessary to synthesize technical information for non-specialist audiences. You will also learn how to effectively engage with stakeholders, both in person and virtually through the outreach, collaboration and co-production stages of a project. Finally, you will learn leadership skills that will allow you to navigate the complex multi-dimensional issues associated with environmental projects. 

• All MOOCs are self-paced.

• Cost: $582.30 paid-for certification

• Duration: 3 months