Course Description:

This course provides a practical introduction to the financial management of public health and healthcare organizations. Participants will engage in the following topics

• The income statement and the statement of changes in equity
• Financial condition analysis
• Planning and budgeting

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the key components of the income statement and statement of changes of equity financial statements routinely prepared by public health organizations and explain why each statement is important to both managers and outside stakeholders.
• Conduct financial condition analyses as a part of understanding the current financial position of an organization.
• Describe the key components of the financial plan within an organization’s general planning process and discuss the different types of budgets.

Course Syllabus:

Financial Management and Budgeting Bootcamp Syllabus

Instructor:

Tory Hogan, PhD

Course Description:

Mixed methods research is growing in acceptance in Public Health, calling for developing new research skills among future health leaders. By integrating quantitative outcome-based oriented approaches with qualitative stakeholder engagement methods public health leaders and researchers should be able to better identify, assess, evaluate and implement improvement initiatives in public health.

The purpose of this interactive class is to discuss principles and procedures of designing and conducting mixed methods studies and to provide participants with hands-on experience of selecting and applying core mixed methods designs in public health research.  The course is designed for novice and seasoned researchers seeking to apply mixed methods to understand topics in public health.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe key perspectives and purpose of mixed methods research (MMR) design.
• Discuss and examine the most common MMR designs.
• Assess methodological challenges associated with conducting mixed methods studies.
• Evaluate and discuss approaches to conducting data analyses within a mixed methods research study.
• Practice writing MMR research aims.
• Design public health mixed methods research study.

Course Syllabus:

Mixed Methods to Understand & Evaluate Public Health Problems Syllabus

Instructor:

Tory Hogan, PhD

Course Description:

The World Health Organization defines health equity as the absence of avoidable, unfair, or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically or geographically or by other means of stratification. Additionally, health equity underscores the necessity that everyone should have the same and just opportunity to achieve optimal health.

Advancing health equity through public health activities, clinical interventions, community action or business initiatives are often challenging. This is because many do not fully understand key health equity concepts or how to operationalize them.

This course will provide participants with information to understand key health equity concepts. Participants will also learn how to use tools and techniques to apply health equity concepts to protect the health of populations, including those made vulnerable through challenging social determinants of health.

Course Syllabus:

Practical Implementation of Health Equity Initiatives Syllabus

Instructor: 

JaNelle Ricks, DrPH, MPA has been involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating cross-sectional and prospective studies in rural tobacco control policy, cancer prevention and control, childhood stress and trauma, and HIV/STD/unintended pregnancy prevention for youth and young adult populations in rural and urban settings. Her current research addresses sexual and reproductive health issues among adolescent/young adult, racial/ethnic and sexual minority populations. Dr. Ricks’ research examines the intersection of individual, social and environmental determinants of health, with particular emphasis on health disparities.

Course Description:

The course will provide a basic introduction to qualitative methods that have utility in health promotion. Participants will explore concepts from human geography and qualitative approaches including interviews, focus groups and visual methods. The course is designed to expose participants to questions of why and how to consider place, particularly within the social determinants of health framework and a community-engaged research (or practice).  Course learning goals include: understanding the way place impacts health and identifying methods for use in planned or ongoing qualitative research.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate how qualitative research can facilitate understanding of the non-biological factors that impact the public’s health and contribute to public health problems
• Define health promotion and explain the unique characteristics of place-based approaches.
• Explain the value of utilizing concepts from geography in approaches to planning, implementing and evaluating public health interventions using qualitative methods.
• Introduce qualitative data collection and analysis skills for health behavior practice.
• Identity a public health problem and demonstrate ability to implement qualitative study design, including research question development, data collection preparation and qualitative data analysis.
• Apply appropriate presentation of interpretive analysis of data and create dissemination plan for research findings.

Course Syllabus:

Place-Based Qualitative Methods in Health Promotion Syllabus

Course Instructor:

Katherine Swidarski, PhD, is a Program Manager at Columbus Public Health in the Neighborhood Health Division and adjunct faculty in the Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, College of Public Health at The Ohio State University. Dr. Swidarski’s program and research interests focus on the creation of healthy places that equitably reduce traffic and neighborhood safety barriers for school-aged children. Dr. Swidarski’s program aims to increase use of walking and biking as a fun, safe way to travel to/from school.

The Center is transitioning from its current LMS, Canvas, to the University’s ScarletCanvas.You may access our online courses in the current LMS until June 30, 2020. You will no longer have access to your course transcripts after this date. We ask that you download your course certificates and transcript.

Below are instructions on how to access your course certificates and transcript.

1.) Log into your Canvas account.

2.) Click on “Dashboard” on the left side of the screen, as seen in the image below.

3.) Click “Completed” under the Ohio State University logo.

4.) Click “View” and/or “Download” to access any of your course certificates.

If you are still having issues accessing your course certificate, please contact Colleen at fitzgibbons.11@osu.edu.

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