Public Health Administration

This series of 14 courses is intended to benefit new public health administrators.

• Public Health Law
• Risk Communication
• Strategic Planning
• Basic Epidemiology
• Community Planning to Improve Quality of Life
• Contracts
• Critical Thinking
• Financial Management
• Finding & Evaluating Health Info on the Internet
• Grant Writing
• Human Resources
• Knowledge of Public Health
• Marketing
• Overall Aspects of Managing an Agency

Courses address topics including general agency management, grant writing, contracts, critical thinking, human resources, general public health knowledge, etc.
Enroll in the curriculum, and then work through the courses in any order. There is a quiz at the end of each course.
*Please note that all of the courses that make up this Curriculum are also available individually in the Course Catalog for enrollment. Once all courses are complete, you will receive a certificate from the Program area of your Transcript

This course was created by the Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center and is part of the Public Health Policy, Advocacy & Law (PH 430) course series. These courses can be taken separately and in any sequence desired. The overall PH 430 series provides an introduction to public health policy-making, policy analysis and advocacy. Various theories relating to policy-making and analysis are explored, leading the learner to form his or her own personal conclusions about how and why the system operates the way that it does. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as a basis for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations. The various components of these courses serve to stimulate interactions among learners and instructors around important problems and issues facing public health. The Illinois Preparedness Center requires a separate registration. Click the course title to launch to the registration page. When prompted, either login if you have an existing account with them, or register. You will then be allowed to register. When finished, print your completion certificate from Illinois, then return to the LMS and choose Mark Complete from the action menu in your Learning Plan found in your Workspace.

Making Sense of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Thursday March 9 2005

The overall goal for this course is to enable the students to funtion in an ICS environment. At the

This course was created by the Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center and is part of the Public Health Administration (PH 450) course series. These courses can be taken separately and in any sequence desired. The overall PH 450 series provides an introduction to public health management and administration by examining the purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and results. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as a basis for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations. The various components of these courses serve to stimulate interactions among learners and instructors around important problems and issues facing public health. The Illinois Preparedness Center requires a separate registration. Click the course title to launch to the registration page. When prompted, either login if you have an existing account with them, or register. You will then be allowed to register. When finished, print your completion certificate from Illinois, then return to the LMS and choose Mark Complete from the action menu in your Learning Plan found in your Workspace.

This course is designed to enable participants to develop ICS/EOC interface implementation strategie

NIMS will enable responders at all levels to work together more effectively to manage domestic incid

Intended Audience Any employee of a government private-sector or non-governmental organization

This course is based on one important premise: Emergency exercises are worth the effort. It is designed to introduce you to the fundamentals of exercise design and to prepare you to design and conduct a small functional exercise for your organization. It addresses: 1. The value of conducting exercises. 2. The components of a comprehensive exercise program. 3. The exercise development process development tasks, organization of the design team, exercise documentation, and the steps in designing an exercise. Course Content This course will cover the purpose, characteristics, and requirements of three main types of exercises: 1. Tabletop exercise 2. Functional exercise 3. Full-scale exercise In addition this course will cover: - Exercise evaluation. - Exercise enhancements. - Designing a functional exercise.

This course is intended for non-first response persons who could fill supervisory-level positions in

This course provides training and resources for personnel who require advanced application of ICS

This course was created by the Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center and is part of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response PH 460 course series. The Illinois Preparedness Center requires a separate registration. Click the course title to launch to the registration page. When prompted, either login if you have an existing account with them, or register. You will then be allowed to register. When finished, print your completion certificate from Illinois, then return to the LMS and choose Mark Complete from the action menu in your Learning Plan found in your Workspace. The overall PH 450 series provides an introduction to public health management and administration by examining the purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and results. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as a basis for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations. The various components of these courses serve to stimulate interactions among learners and instructors around important problems and issues facing public health. Since computers and the Internet's World Wide Web are now basic tools for public health practitioners, these courses also seek to foster and enhance skills related to the use of technology for accessing and using information and for communicating with colleagues. Reading assignments are derived from various online sources that are identified in the exercises document for each course. The basic content for the Public Health Administration PH 450 Series is the text, Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-Based Management by LF Novick and GP Mays eds; Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 2001.

This course was created by the Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center and is part of the Public Health Policy, Advocacy & Law (PH 430) course series. These courses can be taken separately and in any sequence desired. The overall PH 430 series provides an introduction to public health policy-making, policy analysis and advocacy. Various theories relating to policy-making and analysis are explored, leading the learner to form his or her own personal conclusions about how and why the system operates the way that it does. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as a basis for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations. The various components of these courses serve to stimulate interactions among learners and instructors around important problems and issues facing public health. The Illinois Preparedness Center requires a separate registration. Click the course title to launch to the registration page. When prompted, either login if you have an existing account with them, or register. You will then be allowed to register. When finished, print your completion certificate from Illinois, then return to the LMS and choose Mark Complete from the action menu in your Learning Plan found in your Workspace.