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Building Collaborations Across Sectors to Improve Population Health
Location
Internet
Term
1st Term
Department
Extradepartmental
Credit(s)
0.5
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Resources
Prerequisite
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:
- Understand the evidence behind the stages of team development, team performance, and the essential skills for collaborative teamwork
- Explain the elements of interdisciplinary team effectiveness and team leadership
- 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
- 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
- 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