Section: Module 2: Lesson 1: Leadership, Ethics, and Public Health | Public Health Leadership | NextGenU.org

  • Learning Objectives:

    • Understand the concepts of transparency, integrity, and honesty.
    • Describe the relationship between leadership and ethics.
    • Summarize the Public Health code of Ethics
    • Analyze how the public health code of ethics can be applied to public health leadership.
    • Demonstrate the capacity to incorporate the public health code of ethics in interactions with individuals, organizations, and communities.
    • Apply social justice and human rights principles when addressing community needs.
    Approximate time required to complete the readings (at 144 words/minute) and assignments for this lesson: 14 hours/37 minutes.

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
    • Read the content under the headings "Introduction" and "Transparency and accountability." (7 minutes)

      WHO-2017

    • Read the entire page and watch the video. (2 minutes)

      McCombs School of Business – The University of Texas at Austin-2018

    • Read the entire page. (40 minutes)

      Universidad de Chile

    • Read the content under the heading "Leadership and organizational ethics in unpredictable times" to the heading "current leadership organizations." (28 minutes)

      BMC medical ethics-2013

    • Read the content on pages 1 to 6 (18 minutes)

      APHA-2019

    • Read the domains 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, and 12 on the pages 17-30 (45 minutes)

      APHA-2019

    • Read the content under the heading "1.6 A Three-Step Approach to Public Health Decision Making" (17 minutes)

      Springer Link-2016

    • Read the content under the heading "Contemporary Conceptions of Social Justice", and "The Fundamental Principles of Social Justice" on the pages 1-5 (20 minutes)

      United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

    • Read the content under the heading "Tools for Social Justice", and "Challenges to Achieving Social Justice in Arab Countries" on the pages 6-17 (54 minutes)

      United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

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    • Additional Resources for Optional Learning
    • Read the content under the heading "Editorial: Medical ethics in the 70 years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the present" on the page 161. (7 minutes)

      Springer Link-2018

    • This course was presented from October to December 2020 to a cohort of leaders of the Caribbean. Watch the entire video. (72 minutes)

      PAHO-October 29, 2020