Institution: Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center, Iowa Counties Public Health Association

Course Description: The New Public Health Administrators Series is the result of collaboration between the Upper Midwest Public Health Training Center and the Iowa Counties Public Health Association to develop a non-academic, practice-based education series targeted toward new public health administrators, directors, and nursing administrators in Iowa.  The purpose of the series is to cover topics that are especially relevant to new public health administrators, providing the opportunity for participants to enhance the knowledge, skills and abilities they need to successfully administer today’s public health workforce.  

The series is composed of fourteen courses:

•  Overall Aspects of Managing an Agency
•  Knowledge of Public Health
•  Strategic Planning
•  Community Planning
•  Human Resources
•  Financial Management
•  Grant Writing
•  Marketing
•  Contracts
•  Risk Communication
•  Basic Epidemiology
•  Public Health Law
•  Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Internet
•  Critical Thinking

Target Audience: The intended audience includes public health administrators, directors and nurse administrators who are relatively new in their positions – three years or less.  Local boards of health, city and county health departments, hospitals, home health agencies and visiting nurse associations typically employ these public health professionals.

Resource Format: Online

Time Requirement: 14 hours

More Information: The courses are available through the Prepare Iowa Learning Management System