552.625.81
Building Collaborations Across Sectors to Improve Population Health

Location
Internet
Term
3rd Term
Department
Extradepartmental
Credit(s)
0.5
Academic Year
2023 - 2024
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Start Date
Monday, January 22, 2024
End Date
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Mark Bittle
Contact Name
Mark Bittle
Contact Email
mbittle1@jhu.edu
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Provides an overview of the essential role of teams and teamwork in enhancing organizational performance and building multi-sector collaborations and partnerships in population health. Following deliberate, evidence-based methods for effective collaboration, identifies and discusses several key factors that can only be addressed through cross-sector efforts. These factors include the social determinants of health, complexity, context, and societal resistance. Introduces the Collective Impact Model, designed to tackle entrenched, socially complex issues, as an evidence-based model for effective, large scale, sustainable change.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Understand the evidence behind the stages of team development, team performance, and the essential skills for collaborative teamwork
  2. Explain the elements of interdisciplinary team effectiveness and team leadership
  3. Understand the key principles of systems thinking, adaptive leadership, and complexity as it applies to communities and addressing deeply entrenched, socially complex issues such as the determinants of health
  4. Identify the characteristics of an effective, sustainable cross-sector collaboration, including mutual respect, maintaining a focus on shared values and goals, the roles of other professionals in solving public health problems, and methods of communicating with other professionals in ways that they understand
  5. Explain the essential elements of the Collective Impact framework as the foundation of effective, and sustainable cross-sector collaboration
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 20% Participation
  • 80% Quizzes
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Consent Contact
mbittle1@jhu.edu
Jointly Offered With
Health Policy and Management