Graduate Prerequisites: SPH PH720 or instructor permission. - This course is designed for public health students from diverse backgrounds who aspire to be effective leaders for change in community health settings. This course applies justice-based practice and humble consulting frameworks. Students work in teams to define and address a specific challenge with partners in a community health agency, health system, or cross-sector organization. Course sessions engage students in learning and teaching key concepts, theories, and practices in management, leadership, and community partnership. Students apply tools to define a challenge, scan the environment, investigate evidence, define interests of key stakeholders, map organizational processes, align and mobilize constituents, synthesize findings, and communicate findings and recommendations to the client organization in a polished presentation and consultant report. Throughout the course, students are challenged to use anti-oppression practices and learn to build strong teams, create breakthroughs when breakdowns occur, and assess themselves and others as team players. The course prepares students to act as collaborative consultants in real-world professional settings.

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