Working in the Indigenous Health Sector (POPH90234)

This subject will build on the foundations provided by the core Public Health Leadership and Management subject offered in the MPH. It provides students with specific knowledge for leading effective organizational and programmatic responses towards Closing the Gap in Indigenous health status. It examines models of leadership and management that support Indigenous health service delivery, including comprehensive primary health care and Aboriginal community control, primary health care partnerships and related regional structures. It includes leadership in Indigenous contexts including the management of stakeholder relationships and community accountability and examines related implications for organizational leadership and management. It examines organizational theory and management, financial management and human resources management, highlighting particular challenges in Indigenous primary health care contexts. It includes strategies for managing internal and external accountabilities, multiple funding providers, service contracts, short-term funding cycles, and staff performance in resource and capacity limited organizational environments.