MBA - Public Health Management (Robert Kennedy College)
Designed for your success, the MBA Public Health Management creates distinctive managers with a solid understanding of business functions, such as organisational behaviour, financial management and strategic management, combined with comprehensive knowledge of the latest developments in public health management policy, and is designed to increase the business capabilities of public healthcare managers, and to improve their capabilities in critical areas.
Course Overview
The overall aims of the programme are as follows:
On this course you will...
- Further develop relevant management and organisation knowledge, both academic and professional, in line with postgraduate standards/benchmarks and in the context of public health management;
- Develop critical reflection skills and engagement with organisational and professional theory to understand, and where appropriate challenge, existing individual and organisational perspectives and practices;
- Develop, and where appropriate apply, knowledge of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence or the Internet of Things to add value by enhancing organisational capability particularly in the field of public health management;
- Develop an understanding of the organisation’s strategic focus and environment and the impact of the inter-relationship between the organisation’s resources and clients particularly focusing on the aspects of ethics, health economics and elements of change management in the public health sector;
- Develop commitment to continuous personal and professional development, independence and reflective learning in the context of public health management;
- Further develop expertise and understanding in the fields of management and healthcare, enabling a critical engagement with contemporary discourses that will promote a personal and professional reflection on leading changes in the public health sector.
Location
Distance Learning
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