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Wagner School of Public Service
PADM-GP 4321 Operating Social Enterprises:
This course will provide a comprehensive overview and step by step approach to the most critical aspects of operating social enterprises. This course will put students in the shoes of the social entrepreneur, social enterprise or operations manager, using detailed examples and activities from a real-world social enterprise, as well as best practices from targeted case studies addressing key course topics. For this semester, the course will feature the Professor’s experience with building and operating a social enterprise in the peanut agricultural value chain in Haiti. Student practice and assignments will be informed by actual datasets and mini-case examples from this social enterprise.
Wagner School of Public Service
MHA-GP 4833 Entrepreneurship for Healthcare Organizations:
This course is for current and future healthcare innovators interested in learning how to exploit gaps and opportunities in the evolving healthcare industry and launch meaningful, valuable companies as measured by customers and investors. It provides innovators with the essential steps needed to take their idea from concept to reality. By using real cases to demonstrate the various paths taken by others, students will not only understand how to start up a company, but they will gain valuable insights into what it takes to succeed with investors, how to build a customer pipeline, and how to avoid pitfalls that can derail a company.
College of Global Public Health
GPH-GU 5296 Public Health Innovation and Entrepreneurship:
This course helps current and future public health practitioners develop skills to create innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions that address public health challenges. Student teams explore gaps in the availability, accessibility, acceptability, adequacy, and appropriateness of health-related goods and services in target communities and propose innovations that would narrow those gaps and improve health outcomes. Then, using a stepwise, structured approach, the teams develop and refine a business model for the innovation through stakeholder interviews designed to maximize product-market fit and minimize failure risk.
College of Global Public Health
GPH-GU 5342 Global Issues in Public Health Nutrition:
This course addresses major global nutrition issues that we face today. Food insecurity, and all forms of malnutrition, underweight, obesity and micronutrient deficiencies are leading risk factors of mortality and comorbidity worldwide. The course is developed in the context of the United Nations System, through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda. We will discuss climate change, conflict, and economic downturn as determinants of food insecurity that are worsening non-communicable disease prevalence. Next, we understand malnutrition, its major determinants and its interconnections with the food systems. Students will design a solution for these issues, using the systems approach and principles from social entrepreneurship in the global landscape.
College of Global Public Health
GPH-GU 2342 Global Issues in PHN | Global Issues in Public Health Nutrition:
This course addresses major global nutrition issues that we face today. Food insecurity, and all forms of malnutrition, underweight, obesity and micronutrient deficiencies are leading risk factors of mortality and comorbidity worldwide. The course is developed in the context of the United Nations System, through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda. We will discuss climate change, conflict, and economic downturn as determinants of food insecurity that are worsening non-communicable disease prevalence. Next, we understand malnutrition, its major determinants and its interconnections with the food systems. Students will design a solution for these issues, using the systems approach and principles from social entrepreneurship in the global landscape.
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