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Leadership for Public Health Crises

Leadership for Public Health Crises will enable current and prospective managers, directors, unit heads, and elected officials to effectively lead their organizational response to profound health-related emergencies and to build leadership capacity across multiple sectors, agencies, organizations, and divisions. This series of courses prepares graduate students (in, e.g., public administration, public health, social work, business, homeland security, education, and related fields) and practitioners in a range of roles in this broader arena who seek to attain or advance in leadership roles. The courses focus on foundational competencies required to confidently and competently lead in preparation for and response to far-reaching health-related crises, including communication, cross-agency collaboration, organizational contingency planning, and data analysis, especially as these relate to civilian sectors. To learn more about the Leadership for Public Health Crises specialization, please watch the overview video by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHhzlgdHIxU

Status: Hazard Communication (HazCom)
Status: Health Disparities
BeginnerSpecialization

Top reviews across Leadership for Public Health Crises

DS

Reviewed Mar 1, 2022

Very informative and interective session. I learned alot.

JP

Reviewed Jul 7, 2021

very informative, and made me know the details and intricacies of Disaster Preparedness

AL

Reviewed Mar 25, 2026

It’s a really good course I got to learn a lot especially when dedicated. And it permits you to amend your errors

KR

Reviewed Sep 22, 2021

Thanks a Lot for give a good information for my career

MG

Reviewed Dec 12, 2025

Very detailed and insightful information - ensuring that we are receiving and giving the right information to the public with credibility.

IC

Reviewed Sep 21, 2024

The course is indeed very useful. The content is crisp and to the point. Good course

TF

Reviewed Sep 18, 2021

I was familiar with most of the content but Samantha made it quite interesting, gave concrete, real life/disaster examples and shared some pretty interesting additional readings. Thanks!

EM

Reviewed Dec 16, 2021

One of the best courses! I have an interest in emergency response and this course was ideal! Thank you Dr Samantha Penta and SUNY Online (and of course Coursera)! - Evan

MR

Reviewed Aug 26, 2021

Content is very much useful, content coverage is good, Organisation of content and Presentation of course faculty is good.

DB

Reviewed Apr 27, 2021

As a long time emergency responder I found the course provided basics

MS

Reviewed Jul 26, 2024

liked the quizzes the instructor chose meaningful questions

SW

Reviewed Mar 5, 2024

One of the most practical courses I have taken. The frameworks and principles can be applied right away to your job or day to day communication!

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Course: Communication and Leadership during a Public Health Crisis
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