What you'll learn

  • Deepen your knowledge of health equity to include social determinants and root causes—and how historical factors and policy agendas shape power and produce unfair gaps 

  • Learn how to address complex topics like microaggressions, tokenism, the “Diversity Tax,” and more to identify specific, tangible opportunities to operationalize strategies to advance health equity in your work or practice 

  • Apply innovative leadership frameworks—adaptive, authentic, and transformational—to make substantial and lasting change in an organization 

  • Strengthen your change-management toolkit: analyze major drivers of organizational change, communicate equity using shared values across sectors, and make managerial decisions informed by data and metrics 

  • Examine personal and professional challenges of sustaining this work—work/life integration, leadership responsibilities, and career aspirations 

Course description

Advance Health Equity for All

Develop and refine your leadership skills through a health equity lens in this online program. You’ll examine how racism and unconscious assumptions, structural faults in the health care system, and avoidable differences in the drivers of health shape outcomes—and how leaders can sustain action over the long term. In particular, you will: 

  • Analyze factors impacting patients and health care providers—identity, “minority tax,” imposter syndrome, unconscious assumptions, work-life integration, and secondary stress—through a systems lens, using practical equity decision questions to surface benefits and burdens 
  • Examine how policies, incentives, and resource allocation can disadvantage populations made most vulnerable—and learn to center their needs in decisions 
  • Strengthen your ability to lead equity-centered conversations using shared values and plain language (not jargon) to align stakeholders across roles and sectors 

Instructors

President, Non-profit Reede Scholars; Director, Leadership Development to Ato Improve Health Outcomes for All, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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