Key skills necessary to pursue non-academic careers
Below are courses and workshops that address different skillsets.
Skillset: Communications
Conduct advocacy
Conducting advocacy is defined as advocating on issues of social issues, policy, and more.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
180.626.81 Environmental Justice and Public Health Practice
221.669.73 American Indian Health Policy
301.645.01 Health Advocacy
330.643.81 The Science of Narrative: Intersectionality of Storytelling and Public Health
380.620.81 A Coalition-Based Smart Approach to Public Health Advocacy
380.707.11 Advocating for Global Reproductive Health
410.663.01 Media Advocacy and Public Health: Theory and Practice
410.672.71 Organizing for Public Health With the Six Steps to Effective Advocacy: Turning Public Will Into Public Policy
700.642.01 Vulnerability in Childhood From Ethics to Advocacy
Data visualization and creation of infographics
Use tools to create and animate data; create infographics.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Building Data Visualization Tools
663.616 Data Visualization and Presentation
Webinar 4: Visual Design for Science Communication - A Webinar by Katie Peek, PhD
Bringing Your Research Alive Through Story Telling: StoryMaps for Beginners (Virtual)
General communication skills
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Communicating Your Ideas: How to Design and Deliver an Effective Presentation (workshop offered by PDCO)
Selling Your Science in 60 Seconds (workshop offered by PDCO)
663.626 Improvisation for Enhanced Teamwork and Communication
663.643 Science Outreach: Communicating Science to the Public
Developing Effective Communication Skills (workshop offered by Pillars of Wealth)
260.720.81 Communications Primer for the Public Health Sciences
410.651.81 Health Literacy: Challenges and Strategies for Effective Communication
410.653.71 Contemporary Issues in Health Communication
410.654.01 Health Communication Programs I: Planning and Strategic Design
410.655.01 Health Communication Programs II: Implementation and Evaluation
Health communications in clinical vs. education settings
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
410.651.81 Health Literacy: Challenges and Strategies for Effective Communication
605.651.86 Strategic Communication Planning
410.653.71 Contemporary Issues in Health Communication
Presentation skills
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
JHU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Practice & Competition Series
663.615 Building Effective Posters and Slides
663.621 Professional Presentation Skills for Arts & Humanities
EN.663.622 Professional Presentations for Graduate Students
EN.663.641 Improving Presentation Skills for International Students
308.701.11 Effective Presentations and News Media Interviews: Practical Skills for Public Health Practitioners
Social media
Be able to utilize social media to disseminate public health data, build social media health campaigns, and more.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Skillset: Healthcare systems
This skillset refers to having knowledge about how the U.S. health care system works, who are the providers, how is money distributed within the healthcare system, how does insurance work, and more
Medicare/Medicaid
Be knowledgeable of how Medicaid and Medicare work in the U.S.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
309.620.01 Managed Care and Health Insurance
380.624.01 Maternal and Child Health Legislation and Programs
330.628.01 Gaps and Opportunities in Public Mental Health: a Systems Approach
US health systems, payments, insurance, key players
Be knowledgeable of the United States' health system, how are payments made, how does the health insurance system work, who are the key players who make up the health system (e.g., government officials, lobbyists, insurance carriers)
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
300.600.81 Introduction to Health Policy
300.651.81 Introduction to the U.S. Healthcare System
300.721.01 Foundations in Health Policy I
Skillset: Management
This skillset refers to how individuals can take on leadership responsibilities and support programs, other team members, maintain relationships with clients or community partners or other stakeholders, and the overall goals of their projects.
Conflict resolution
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Handling Team Conflict (online learning module offered through myLearning)
L&OD | Conflict Resolution (online learning module offered through myLearning)
663.675 Communicating in Crisis
Grants and Budgets
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
221.602.60 Applications in Managing Health Organizations in Low and Middle Income Countries
312.603.81 Fundamentals of Budgeting and Financial Management
312.624.20 Financial Management in Health Care II
313.790.81 Introduction to Economic Evaluation
319.608.94 Finance Management, Accounting and Budgeting
380.612.01 Applications in Program Monitoring and Evaluation*
552.622.81 Creating, Implementing and Monitoring Budgets for Projects and Programs
Managing Up
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
A Difficult Boss Doesn't Have to Be a Difficult Problem (online learning module offered through myLearning)
Building Upward Relationships (online learning module offered through myLearning)
Project management
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
663.670 Project Management
663.674 Fundamentals of Management
Project Management Basics Part 1 (workshop offered by Pillars of Wealth)
221.608.01 Managing Non-Governmental Organizations in the Health Sector
318.625.01 Management of Nonprofit Organizations
319.602.94 Project Management and Evaluation
319.603.94 Strategic Management
Team management
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Being a Fair and Caring Manager (online learning module offered through myLearning)
Building and Leading Successful Teams (online learning module offered through myLearning)
Building the Foundation for an Effective Team (online learning module offered through myLearning)
Developing a Successful Team (online learning module offered through myLearning)
Effective Team Communication (online learning module offered through myLearning)
JHHS | SuccessFactors | Managing Employee Goals Webinar (online learning module offered through myLearning)
663.660 Managing People and Resolving Conflict
663.673 Leading Teams in Virtual, International and Local Settings
Leading Teams (workshop offered by Pillars of Wealth)
312.702.81 Leading Change: Building and Empowering Teams
Skillset: Other skills
These are stand alone skills that have been highlighted by alumni as key to succeeding in varying non-academic careers.
Causal inference
Be able to determine the factors that influence a particular phenomenon.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
260.844.41 Causation
140.664.01 Causal Inference in Medicine and Public Health I
340.721.60 Epidemiologic Inference in Public Health
Conduct systemic reviews and meta-analyses
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
340.606.01 Methods for Conducting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Creating a brand
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Building a Professional Online Presence (workshop offered by PDCO)
Dos and Don'ts for Building a Professional Online Presence, for postdocs (workshop offered by PDCO)
LinkedIn 101 (workshop offered by PDCO)
Professional Development Day: Using Twitter to Advance Your Career (workshop offered by PDCO)
How to use Twitter
Leverage LinkedIn
Network with LinkedIn
Personal branding
Rock your LinkedIn Profile
Digital Marketing & Personal Branding (workshop offered by Pillars of Wealth)
Cultural competence/humility
Engage in cultural competence; be familiar with the concepts and practice them in their public health research/practice.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
224.689.71 Health Behavior Change at the Individual, Household and Community Levels
224.692.81 Methods in Formative Research and Human Centered Design for Intervention Development
Dashboard development and use of common monitoring, evaluation, and learning tools
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Develop Training Materials and Programs
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
300.750.81 Teaching, Learning and Leading – in the Classroom, in the Workplace and in the Community
410.617.01 Foundations of University Teaching and Learning
410.620.81 Program Planning for Health Behavior Change
Economics/econometrics
Be familiar with principles of health economics.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
313.601.01 Economic Evaluation I
Knowledge of how to use commonly used statistical software programs
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
A crash course in data science
Advanced R programming
Building R packages
140.604.73 Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers
140.605.11 Introduction to the SAS Statistical Package
140.776.71 Statistical Computing*
315.727.81 Database Querying in Health
340.701.81 Epidemiologic Applications of GIS
Mixed methods
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
330.621.89 Mixed Methods for Research in Public Health
410.711.01 Doctoral Seminar in Mixed Methods for Public Health Research
Networking
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
330.698.01 Strategies for Success: Public Mental Health Career Development and Beyond
Program Evaluation
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
185.600.81 One Health Tools to Promote and Evaluate Healthy and Sustainable Communities
221.638.01 Health Systems Research and Evaluation in Developing Countries
221.644.01 Econometric Methods for Evaluation of Health Programs
221.645.01 Large-Scale Effectiveness Evaluations of Health Programs
223.866.01 Special Topics in Program Evaluation in International Health
300.713.01 Research and Evaluation Methods for Health Policy
300.713.98 Research and Evaluation Methods for Health Policy
309.616.81 Introduction to Methods for Health Services Research and Evaluation I
309.617.81 Introduction to Methods for Health Services Research and Evaluation II
313.601.01 Economic Evaluation I
380.611.81 Fundamentals of Program Evaluation
410.655.01 Health Communication Programs II: Implementation and Evaluation
607.711.86 Applying Evaluation to More Effectively Reach Communities Through Primary Health Care
Translate research into policy
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
300.712.01 Formulating Policy: Strategies and Systems of Policymaking in the 21st Century
300.722.01 Foundations in Health Policy II
410.721.01 Translating Research Into Public Health Programs and Policy
Understanding big data
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
309.631.81 Population Health Informatics
Understanding root causes to social determinants of health
Be knowledgeable of the differences between the concepts of health equity, health disparities, and health access and how health interventions are designed to address these issues.
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
340.636.11 Epidemiology in Evidence-Based Policy
410.605.81 Fundamental Tools for Promoting Health Equity
221.656.73 Conceptual and Evidential Foundations of Health Equity and Social Justice
Skillset: Writing
This skillset refers to how individuals utilize writing as the specific medium for communications in addition to grant writing.
Business proposal writing
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
663.651 The Entrepreneurial Cycle & Building Effective Business Plans
663.657 Building an Effective Business Plan
Contracts
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
663.630 Business Creation and Contracts
Op-eds, press releases, and other documents for media
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Webinar 1: Making Messages Stick - Strategies to make sure your key points are communicated, understood, and remembered
Webinar 2: A Better Way of Writing - A Science Communications Webinar by Axios Managing Editor Alison Snyder
Webinar 3: Writing and Pitching Life-Science-Related Op-Eds - A Science Communications Webinar by Patrick Skerrett, editor of STAT News’ First Opinion
Grant writing - NIH grants
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Overview of K Award (workshop offered by PDCO)
Advanced K Award Workshop (workshop offered by PDCO)
NIH F award workshop (workshop offered by PDCO)
180.663.01 Grant Writing I
180.664.01 Grant Writing II
260.625.01 Scientific Grant Writing
390.721.71 Principles of Grant Writing I
390.722.01 Principles of Grant Writing II
Grant writing - Non-NIH grants
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
Non-Federal Grant Resources Grant writing workshop (workshop offered by PDCO)
330.632.11 Grant Writing: NIH and Other Funding Sources
Proposal writing
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
663.640 Writing Proposals That Win
380.821.01 PFRH Proposal Writing Seminar
Scientific papers
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
180.662.01 Writing Scientific Papers II
260.625.01 Scientific Grant Writing
410.638.01 Scientific Writing in Health Sciences: Developing a Manuscript for Publication I
410.639.01 Scientific Writing in Health Sciences: Developing a Manuscript for Publication II
Technical Reports and Briefs
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
663.644 Writing Articles and Technical Reports
White papers
Courses and workshops that address this skillset:
308.604.11 Effective Writing for Public Health Change