School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Public Health Leadership
  • Unit Code

    HST6522
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Dianne HAWK

Description

Public health practitioners need to be effective innovators within their chosen field of public health service. In this unit, students learn how to create visions for change, and facilitate change, in public health contexts utilising contemporary leadership theories and practices. Leadership is contextualised in the public health sector environment with focus on specific skills needed to lead the provision of each of the ten essential public health services. There is an emphasis on the public service ethos and regulated nature of this sector and the unit content spans the range of self-leadership, leading healthy and effective public health organisations and navigating the national and global Public Health domains.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST6334

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically discuss theories of leadership and management as they apply to public health settings.
  2. Select and apply appropriate leadership actions in response to various public health contexts.
  3. Create a vision for change with appropriate change recommendations to improve the essentail public health services.
  4. Evaluate personal leadership capabilities and assess performance within collaborative public health teams.

Unit Content

  1. Leading and managing for innovation in public health.
  2. Levels of public health leadership.
  3. Models of leadership in public health.
  4. Leadership skills and competencies across the essential public health services.
  5. Strategic thinking and decision making in the public sector.
  6. Authentic leadership in your professional journey.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive, with case study analysis and practical discussion activities to support development of analytical and decision-making skills. Online students will access eLearning materials via Blackboard and are expected to login and participate in collaborative discussion activities during specific weeks. Students are encouraged to engage with peers to discuss situations, analyse case studies and to think critically to evaluate problems.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationPublic health leadership discussion10%
PortfolioPublic health vision and change50%
ExaminationFinal examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationPublic health leadership discussion10%
PortfolioPublic health vision and change50%
ExaminationFinal examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Public Health Leadership
  • Unit Code

    HST6522
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Dianne HAWK

Description

Public health practitioners need to be effective innovators within their chosen field of public health service. In this unit, students learn how to create visions for change, and facilitate change, in public health contexts utilising contemporary leadership theories and practices. Leadership is contextualised in the public health sector environment with focus on specific skills needed to lead the provision of each of the ten essential public health services. There is an emphasis on the public service ethos and regulated nature of this sector and the unit content spans the range of self-leadership, leading healthy and effective public health organisations and navigating the national and global Public Health domains.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded HST6334

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically discuss theories of leadership and management as they apply to public health settings.
  2. Select and apply appropriate leadership actions in response to various public health contexts.
  3. Create a vision for change with appropriate change recommendations to improve the essentail public health services.
  4. Evaluate personal leadership capabilities and assess performance within collaborative public health teams.

Unit Content

  1. Leading and managing for innovation in public health.
  2. Levels of public health leadership.
  3. Models of leadership in public health.
  4. Leadership skills and competencies across the essential public health services.
  5. Strategic thinking and decision making in the public sector.
  6. Authentic leadership in your professional journey.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus seminars are highly interactive, with case study analysis and practical discussion activities to support development of analytical and decision-making skills. Online students will access eLearning materials via Blackboard and are expected to login and participate in collaborative discussion activities during specific weeks. Students are encouraged to engage with peers to discuss situations, analyse case studies and to think critically to evaluate problems.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationPublic health leadership discussion10%
PortfolioPublic health vision and change50%
ExaminationFinal examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationPublic health leadership discussion10%
PortfolioPublic health vision and change50%
ExaminationFinal examination40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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