Courses Taught by Michael Rubyan
HMP603: Organization and Management of Healthcare Systems
- Graduate level
- Executive Masters, Residential and Online MPH
- This is a second year course for Online students
- Fall, Winter term(s) for Executive Masters and residential students; Fall term(s) for online MPH students;
- 2-3 credit hour(s) for Executive Masters and residential students; 2 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
- Instructor(s): Christine Stead, Michael Rubyan, (Residential/Executive Masters); Michael Rubyan (Online MPH);
- Offered every year
- Prerequisites: HMP Masters Standing or Perm Instr
- Description: Focuses on servant and transformational leadership from the perspective of buyers, insurers, policy makers and leaders of nonprofit health organizations to understand how to deliver high quality, cost effective health care and reach and implement decisions about future activities and the best managerial practices for non-profit advocacy and community-based organizations.
- Residential Syllabus for HMP603
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | HMP | MPH | Develop strategies to continually improve the long-term success and viability of an organization, based on an analysis of the business, demographic, ethno-cultural, political, and regulatory implications of decisions | HMP603, HMP604 |
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HMP604: Organization and Management of Health Advocacy and Community-Based Non-profits
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Michael Rubyan (Residential);
- Prerequisites: HMP Graduate Standing or PI
- Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
- Description: This course is one of two HMP courses that fulfills the organization theory/management degree requirement. These courses provide knowledge of the theories of organizations, the use of leadership, management processes, and organizational structures and outcomes. Specific topics include governance, strategic management and marketing, human resources management, and process improvement. Nonprofit advocacy and community-based organizations face unique challenges related to their mission and ownership, including a greater need to motivate employees through culture and to integrate volunteers into the workforce and to manage complex stakeholder relations within communities. All this must be done with scarce resources and frequently, small budgets and workforces. This course includes analysis of the goals, environmental conditions and organizational structures of nonprofit health organizations, including a variety of smaller (and largely, non-medical) community-based nonprofits. Examples of the best managerial practices for these types of organizations and of commonly known NGOs and other nonprofits are used throughout the course.
- Syllabus for HMP604
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | HMP | MPH | Develop strategies to continually improve the long-term success and viability of an organization, based on an analysis of the business, demographic, ethno-cultural, political, and regulatory implications of decisions | HMP603, HMP604 |
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PUBHLTH513: Public Health Systems, Policy and Management
- Graduate level
- Both Residential and Online MPH
- This is a first year course for Online students
- Winter term(s) for residential students; Winter term(s) for online MPH students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students; 3 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
- Instructor(s): Michael Rubyan, Sheela Kennedy, (Residential); Michael Rubyan (Online MPH);
- Prerequisites: SPH MPH Students Only
- Description: This course will introduce students to the public health system, public health policy development, and fundamental management concepts for managing public health organizations. Topics covered include organization, financing and history of public health, public health policy-making, advocacy, and basic principles of finance and human resource management in public health organizations.
- Learning Objectives: (1) Students should be able to describe how public health and health care are organized and financed in the United States. (2) Students should be able to provide a brief history of public health. (3) Students should be able to explain key aspects of health care reform. (4) Students should be able to describe the core functions of public health and the 10 Essential Services. (5) Students should be able to describe the importance of financial and human resource management in public health and health care organizations (6) Students should be able to apply negotiation and mediation skills to address interpersonal and interorganizational challenges. (7) Students should be able to discuss the format and use of different types of budgets, prepare simple operating budgets and conduct variance analysis. (8) Students should be able to discuss the public health policy-making process. (9) Students should be able to describe the role of ethics in policy making. (10) Students should be able to advocate for political, social or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations. (11) Students should be able to propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes. (12) Students should be able to write and deliver effective testimony.
- This course is required for the school-wide core curriculum
