Two year MPH students may focus on health policy or health services management. In addition to the core curriculum, those students interested in policy will learn paradigms from economics, sociology, political science and law to analyze policy issues and develop potential policy solutions. Students studying for management careers will be exposed to paradigms from management sciences, organizational and financial theory and practice, as well as economics, sociology, and political science. These paradigms will be applied to solving practical issues confronted in managing health care organizations. The two year MPH student completes a summer internship in a health services organization. This is followed by the integrative experience of a consulting report based on an organization problem from the summer internship and agreed to by the organization, student, and faculty.

Mathematics, physical sciences, biological sciences, and social sciences and courses that constitute an adequate preparation for the proposed area of specialization, for example International Family Health or other international health related programs.

Nanette Ramzan
Email: nramzan@ucla.edu
Internet: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/degree.html

• Analytical thinking and problem solving
• Management of information and data resources
• How the U.S. healthcare system is financed and organized
• Principles and realities of healthcare economics
• Financial management skills in operational management and organizational strategic planning
• Population-based approaches to health and illness, i.e. societal and behavioral factors that influence health and wellness
• Managerial methods of leadership, organizational design, conflict resolution, decision making, and effective use of human and financial resources
• The path toward long-term personal growth and career development

Tel: +1 (0)310 267 5600
Fax: +1 (0)310 312 1711
E-mail: emph@ucla.edu
Internet: http://www.emph.ucla.edu/challenge_leadership.asp

Health care services are rapidly developing and transforming to keep pace with the advances in medical and information technology, leading to more informed patients and government agencies who demand higher-quality care with decreased cost. The expected exponential growth in the elderly and “baby boomer” groups will demand a response in every sector of health care, which in turn will generate new management opportunities in a variety of settings.
Health care management is an integral and critical part of this development.

Required Courses:

• Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System
• Introduction to Health Care Financial Management
• Principles of Health Organization Management and Leadership
• Strategy and Marketing for Health Organizations
• Fundamentals of Health Law and Compliance
• Quality Perfomance Management and Information Technology in Health Care Organizations

• Health Care professionals seeking to sharpen and update their management skills
• Professionals in other fields, such as law or information technology, who are hoping to transition into health care
• Managers seeking more formal training and education in preparation for advanced responsibilities and opportunities in health care
• Nonmanagerial/administrative professionals seeking to advance to supervisory or management positions in health care
• Physicians or other clinical or allied health professionals moving toward greater managerial and administrative responsibility.

Tel: +1 (0)310 825 7093 or +1 (0)310 825 5147
Internet: http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/certificate.asp
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/hs/health_care_management_brochure.pdf

Keynote Presentation 1: Novel H1N1 Influenza: Unraveling the Outbreak
Presented by: Captain Daniel M. Sosin, MD, MPH, FACP (Confirmed)
Senior Advisor for Science and Public Health Practice, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Keynote Presentation 2: Federal Public Health Decision Making
Presented by: Richard Besser, MD (Invited); Director, Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

On April 26, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in the United States. This action enabled emergency use authorizations of drugs, devices, and laboratory test in conjunction with a rapidly evolving infectious disease. This new influenza catapulted health departments across the country into actions that included increased surveillance, laboratory specimen processing, handling of medications from the Strategic National Stockpile, invoking non-pharmaceutical interventions on mass gatherings and school activities, and critical risk communications to advise the American population of the realities of this rapidly changing outbreak.

The UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters is convening a two-day workshop to review the key actions taken as this epidemic unfolded, seeking to identify those strategies that were effective and those that could have been handled differently. Those attending this workshop will have the unique opportunity to interact with colleagues from all levels of the response, and to participate in working sessions to help identify gaps to be addressed in future national disease outbreaks.

Leaders from the Centers for Disease Control and state and local health departments will participate in facilitated discussions so that participants can learn how decisions were made and the effects of their resulting actions. They will also hear updates on the current status of the Novel Influenza A H1N1, both domestically and internationally, and what to expect as we enter the 2009-2010 influenza season.

Workshop Goal:
The Center has hosted seven prior National Conferences on Public Health and Disasters. Our faculty believe that the unique nature of this rapidly spreading emerging infection warrants a focused workshop to provide a comprehensive understanding of the decisions made in response to this novel influenza, and to provide a foundation for how health professionals can plan for and respond to similar public health emergencies in the future.

$300

Chara Burnstein
Tel: +1 (0)310 794 0864
Fax: +1 (0)310 794 0889
Email: cphdevents@ucla.edu.
Internet: http://www.cphd.ucla.edu/

The course focuses on designing, implementing, and evaluating community disaster preparedness programs. At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Combine health education and emergency management principles
• Conduct a needs and hazard assessment
• Identify target populations
• Identify program planning principles for disaster response
• Understand different methods of process, outcome, and impact evaluation of disaster response plans

Tel: +1 (0)310 794 0864
Fax: +1 (0)310 794 0889
Email: cphdr@ucla.edu
Internet: http://www.cphd.ucla.edu/

The course is an introduction to public health and disasters. At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify physical forces that result in disasters
• Understand principles of civilian and municipal service preparedness and response
• Understand the role of international community and relief agencies in humanitarian assistance
• Investigate the delivery of health care to displaced populations
• Provide an overview of research methods in disasters

Tel: +1 (0)310 794 0864
Fax: +1 (0)310 794 0889
Email: cphdr@ucla.edu
Internet: http://www.cphd.ucla.edu/

The course focuses on how to prepare for and manage disease outbreaks that result from bioterrorist attacks and emerging infectious diseases. Students will work with colleagues in medicine, dentistry, and nursing to identify and respond to disease outbreaks and bioterrorist attacks. Students from all disciplines of public health are encouraged to enroll. At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Discuss issues of surveillance, prophylaxis, and treatment of exposed populations
• Identify the roles of pre-hospital and hospital/clinic-based practitioners in recognition of such exposures and notification of public health authorities
• Consider the role of the public health practitioner in laboratory identification/confirmation of suspected agent, isolation and treatment of exposed/infected patients, cooperative interagency incident management involving law enforcement, medical community, and federal agencies
• Address the roles and responsibilities of public health officials when working with the media in biological/chemical public health hazards

Tel: +1 (0)310 794 0864
Fax: +1 (0)310 794 0889
Email: cphdr@ucla.edu
Internet: http://www.cphd.ucla.edu/

Natural and human generated disasters exact a human toll that is amenable to public health
interventions. The series of courses leading to the specialization in the Area of Emergency
Public Health explores the adverse public health effects of disasters and both the public health
and emergency management principles that can be applied to reduce those effects.

Curriculum:

• Introduction to Biostatistics
• Health Services Organization
• Community Health Sciences
• Principles of Epidemiology
• Program Planning, Research & Evaluation in Community Health Sciences
• Selected Topics in Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance
• Intro to Environmental Health
• Program Planning in Community Disaster Preparedness
• Post-Disaster Community Health
• Cooperative Interagency Management in Disasters
• Additional: Elective and Suggested Courses

Tel: +1 (0)310 794 0864
Fax: +1 (0)310 794 0889
Email: cphdr@ucla.edu
Internet: http://www.cphd.ucla.edu/ or
http://www.cphd.ucla.edu/pdfs/Specialization%20CHS.pdf