Budgeting & Financial Management for Impact
The Budgeting & Financial Management for Impact course will introduce the essential techniques of planning, managing, and monitoring budgets in the governmental public health sector. Various aspects and considerations of a budget building are presented, as well as ways of examining the differences between the planned budget and actual spending.
Measuring the Financial Health of Public Health Agencies
The financial analysis uses data from various financial and operating reports to assess the financial performance of individual programs, services, and an agency. It aids in determining which programs and services drive positive or negative performance. In non-profit settings, it is used as a measure for assessing an organization’s overall financial capability to continue programs and services needed to meet its mission. This course builds the skills required to conduct such analysis at the program as well as the agency level.
Leadership & Management: Strategic Thinking
The Leadership & Management course builds your capacity to develop a plan of action to reach your organizations long and term goals. You will recognize how relationships, patterns, and trends affect the various parts of your organization enabling you to produce valuable solutions to problems.
Contract Formation & Practical Approaches
The Contract Formation & Practical Approaches course focuses on the legal implications of business transactions as they relate to contracting in the public health sector. It is intended to provide participants with an introduction and overview of general principles of contract law. It covers contract formation and practical approaches to standard contract clauses and examines specific examples carefully chosen from the public health industry.
Contracting in a 3.0 Environment
Outcomes-based contracting (OBC) links vendor payments to desired outcomes (results) rather than conducting activities. The value of OBC is that it is structured around the achievement of results that are considered paramount over activities when striving to improve population health. It also provides better assurance of an ROI. The concept is built on quality assurance principles that facilitate performance improvements and grew out of the results-based accountability movement. This course provides are an introduction to this concept along with the specific elements needed for designing, managing, and monitoring such procurements and program outcomes.
Enrollment begins Fall 2018
