The Management Academy for Public Health is meant to improve skills in managing information, people, and money. Management knowledge and skills are best learned in small groups with plenty of interactive exercises and practical application. Academy cohorts each comprise about fifty managers, and courses include frequent break-out sessions. Managers will continue learning if they strengthen their professional networks. The Academy will help you build relationships with public health professionals across four states, from inside and outside governmental public health.
Adult learners learn by applying their new skills.
Management Academy teams write public health business plans that require them to demonstrate their ability to assess health needs, analyze markets, create budgets, design evaluation measures, and mobilize community partners. If the efficiency and effectiveness of local and state health departments is to improve, we must do more than improve individual managers. The Academy starts with an intense, five-day training session in Chapel Hill, devoted to the basics of managing people, money and data. During the session, individuals will get feedback on their personal management skills and developing individual development goals. Teams will begin learning about business planning and working on their business plans.