This exercise helps students understand how to A)Use a risk prediction tool. B) How to compare whole of population vs. targeted precision approaches to reducing cardiovascular disease. It illustrates Geoffrey Rose’s paper by showing that doing a little bit for everybody can have a larger impact than doing major things to the sickest people.

This case study of crisis management in public health is based on the 1976 Swine Flu Crisis. It focuses on ethical communication of risk and asks for reflection on the boundaries between science and political values in responding to a crisis.

1. Describe the principles of ethical leadership and cultural competence in Crisis Situations 

2. Explain how mediation and negotiation are applied in crisis management 

3. Describe the roles and responsibilities of public health leaders during pa ublic health emergency 

Estimation of Total and Unit Routine Immunization Costs from Facility to National Level

The objectives of the exercise are to:

Identify recurrent and capital cost components of an immunization program.

Calculate average total costs of at facility level using sampling weights

Generate a weighted national estimate of total and unit costs using the averaging method.

Learning Objectives:

To understand the Philipson effect or rather how the acceptability of a vaccine is determined

To understand the difference between cost versus benefit

To understand there is no right answer in determining how to go about decisionmaking

To use simulations to better understand vaccine economics

The art of convening is about the very nuanced details that rarely show up in reports or articles. It is about very specific knowledge of the needs, perspectives, and comfort zones of different groups. It relies on possessing both contextual knowledge and content knowledge that can only be gained by a stock of meaningful relationships and years of actively tuning into issues. Failed convening happens when details about how to start and sustain conversations between context and content are ignored or omitted. People who aspire to lead community-based solution finding and collective action to foster human thriving cannot afford failure. The story of how C4C unfolded is a detail-rich account of one approach to building collaborations between context and content. Reading and discussing this case cannot replace learning by convening, but is an insightful introduction to detailed nuances in the art of convening.

The world’s governmental public health workforce is deployed in health departments at national, provincial, and county levels of government. Public health departments are underfunded in almost every country at every level. This case study examines one particular US state that took a close look at public health funding and made a decision to increase it. The path that Indiana took offers a chance to achieve the following learning objectives:

1. Identify strategies to advocate successfully about budgetary issues that affect public health

2. Develop a list of stakeholders and understand the interests and power of each of them in order to strategically achieve the advocacy objective.

3. Demonstrate how population health data be combined with spending data to tell a motivating story that leads to policy change

4. Explain how one can achieve direction, alignment, and commitment across the many disorganized public health partners to lead towards shared goals of better funding. 

Successful applicants will propose projects for an evidence-based intervention within one school district, with the goal to expand SBHC efforts to achieve increased access to mental/behavioral health and related supports, including substance use prevention and treatment and strengths-based, inclusive, community-based services.

You should present a sustainable intervention addressing mental health in the population and propose an RBM framework to track and assess progress in relation to the overall goal. The intervention should target a specific mental health problem and age group across the school district, which should be included among the blueprinted programs on www.blueprintsprograms.org. 

The value of comprehensive sexuality education as a tool for empowering adolescents to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and rights is increasingly recognized globally. Early results from the SETARA intervention has also looked promising. The ministry of health and ministry of education and culture in Indonesia is therefore looking to expand the SETARA interventions and provide CSE nationwide.

Your assignment is to assist the two ministries with a draft plan for how CSE in Indonesia could be scaled up and integrated in the general lower secondary school curricula. It should provide a plan of action including a situation analysis, an M&E framework with clear objectives, a stakeholder analysis, and it should be based on principles of sustainability, and cost effectiveness.

The NGO will develop a pilot project in one of the districts of Timor Leste (to be decided by the NGO in consultation with the MoH) to increase the practice of breastfeeding with the aim of reducing infant malnutrition. The pilot project should include a set of interventions addressing breastfeeding practices and malnutrition among infants. The project should include an RBM framework to track and assess progress, it should also make references to relevant analyses such as stakeholder analysis, risk analysis, and how to ensure sustainability. The pilot project should have a timespan of 1 year after which it will be evaluated and if successful be scaled up to cover the entire country. The pilot project should be carried out within the limits of a 1M USD budget. 

The Ministry of Health together with UNICEF are looking for a team of public health experts/consultants to develop an intervention project with the aim of improving road safety in Pakistan based on big data analysis and in-vehicle telematics using mobile phone vehicle tracking information. The proposal should be a one-year pilot project which can be extended after evaluation. It should include detailed plan of action including a situation analysis, stakeholder analysis, an M&E framework, and it should be based on principles of sustainability. There is no budget ceiling, but the team should take cost effectiveness into account in the proposal.

The team of consultants should present a set of interventions addressing cervical cancer among the population, and propose an RBM framework to track and assess progress. The plan should also make references to relevant analyses such as stakeholder analysis, risk analysis, and how to ensure sustainability. The timeframe should be 2 years (2024-2025). The budget for the pilot project is limited to 2 MUSD. 

The Ministry of Health is looking for a team of public health and program management experts to develop and present a plan on how to scale up and integrate the Malio pilot project into the routine services of the provincial health authorities of the Province of Anosy. The timeframe is 2 years (2024- 2025), and the budget should not exceed 1.5 million USD.

The scale up and integration plan should include clear It should provide a detailed plan of action including a situation analysis, an M&E framework with clear objectives, a stakeholder analysis, and it should be based on principles of sustainability, and cost effectiveness. 

The key objective is to scale-up Taurite Tū across the Bay of Plenty. There is a need for a process that closely involves Māori communities and advances Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge). It is paramount to ensure meaningful multidisciplinary engagement and partnerships leading to collaboration between implementation teams, stakeholders and end-users and drives the creation of pathways for effective knowledge transfer. The proposal should also make references to relevant analyses such as stakeholder analysis, risk analysis, and how to ensure sustainability. The timeframe should be 2 years (2024-2025). The budget for this project is limited to 300,000 NZ$.

The Secretariat of Health in Oaxaca has established a Taskforce for eHealth with the aim of expanding eHealth services into the existing health services. The Taskforce has been assigned to develop a plan for how this should be done. The plan should build on the results from similar Health Kiosk projects around the world, with a focus on how to ensure the services are reaching rural communities in a sustainable way.

The Taskforce should propose a plan with the aim of making Health Kiosks available. The plan should include a set of interventions, and an RBM framework to track and assess progress. The plan should also make references to relevant analyses such as stakeholder analysis, risk analysis, and how to ensure sustainability. The plan should be a 2-year plan that can be carried out within the limits of a 3 MUSD budget, ready to be launched in 2024. 

The assignment is to create a draft campaign material (e.g. poster, pamphlet, radio spot, etc) of your choice with a health message about each case; awareness of health problems deriving STIs, responsible alcohol consumption, mental health promotion among international students and encourage physical activity among students in heavy air pollution area. 

It’s suggested that you set aside some time to collect complimentary information and data. If possible, you could interview someone you know from the context in the case in order to gain some insights.

This case confronts students with the problems faced when science opens the door to the prevention of two scourges: cretinism and goiter. Cretinism is a condition now known to be caused by iodine deficiency before birth that leads to permanent mental impairment. Goiter is a syndrome with deficiency of thyroid hormone with fatigue, weight gain, learning difficulties and swelling in the neck known as goiter. A century ago, both cretinism and goiter were much more common throughout the world.