Communication and Leadership during a Public Health Crisis

As the world changes dramatically around us, leadership skills are necessary to help keep the population safe and healthy. This course emphasizes why it is important to build leadership skills in public health positions and work with diverse teams while immersed in a crisis. The course is designed to help develop effective communication skills necessary to lead a team through conflict and crisis, and build strategies to reach a common goal.

• Understand the importance of leadership skills in public health roles
• Work effectively with diverse teams during crises
• Develop communication skills to lead teams through conflict
• Build strategies to achieve common goals

• Anyone working in or around a healthcare setting who may be needed to lead and communicate during a public health crisis