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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: Emergency Response
Status: Interviewing Skills
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Top reviews across Leadership for Public Health Crises

Reviewed Mar 1, 2022
Course: Communication and Leadership during a Public Health Crisis

Very informative and interective session. I learned alot.

Reviewed Jul 7, 2021
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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

Reviewed Mar 25, 2026
Course: Connect with Diverse Audiences during a Public Health Crisis

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

Reviewed Sep 22, 2021
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

Thanks a Lot for give a good information for my career

Reviewed Dec 12, 2025
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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

Reviewed Sep 21, 2024
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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

Reviewed Sep 18, 2021
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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!

Reviewed Dec 16, 2021
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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

Reviewed Aug 26, 2021
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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

Reviewed Apr 27, 2021
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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

Reviewed Jul 26, 2024
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

liked the quizzes the instructor chose meaningful questions

Reviewed Mar 5, 2024
Course: Disaster, Crisis, and Emergency Preparedness Communication

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 CrisisReviewed Aug 1, 2022Course: Communication and Leadership during a Public Health Crisis
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Course: Communication and Leadership during a Public Health CrisisReviewed Apr 30, 2025Course: Communication and Leadership during a Public Health Crisis