VTPEH 6144 - [Leading Change for Health Equity, Sustainability, and Justice]

Spring. Not offered: 2024-2025. Next offered: 2025-2026. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: VTPEH 6141, VTPEH 6142, and VTPEH 6143. Enrollment limited to: graduate and professional students.

A. Patchen.

Issues related to health equity, sustainability, social and environmental justice are considered complex or wicked problems. To understand and begin to address these, a strategic toolkit is needed. This course will review what wicked problems are, how change happens, and the roles that public health leaders play. Students will practice compiling an evidence base to inform actions, professional writing {white papers), and oral pitches. Students will define a project scope, conduct a literature review, draft a project report outline, identify, and access relevant data, review data to inform action, and develop a project report that could or will be submitted to a ‘client’. Generating a significant document through this course serves as an Integrated Learning Experience for students in the Environment, Climate, and Health Track.