Forward-thinking leaders know how to effectively direct and manage their team’s efforts the environment in which their team and organization function, as well as what mechanisms exist to influence that environment toward positive change. Effective leaders have an awareness of, and engagement with, health care policy that governs regulation and licensure, education and deployment of the health workforce, public health systems, the legislative process and health legislation such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as knowledge of basics about state and federal health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. In this course, students will explore the policy environment working inside and outside an organization’s vertical structure, and examine supports and barriers to initiating structural change. Interactive assignments will build students’ capacity to create and apply strategies to locate and apply relevant health policy knowledge through in a combination of classroom and real-world, team-based case studies and peer-facilitated simulations and debriefings.
- Instructor: Beth Mertz