Certificate in Heroic Leadership in Healthcare
Online Certificate
Designed for all healthcare professionals, this program provides you with an in-depth accounting of your lives as leaders. Over the course of 8 weeks, world-renowned author Chris Lowney and senior executives in healthcare and leadership will bring clarity into your everyday lives, strengthen your capacity to connect with co-workers, teams, and patients, and make deep connections between personal purpose and workplace mission.
Implementing Social Determinants of Health
Certificate in Implementing Social Determinants of Health
Online Certificate
During this eight-week certificate program by the Silicon Valley Executive Center, you will experience the step-by-step development of an authentic and relevant plan for a project or program of your choice related to the SDOH. You will also explore how strategy, community engagement, and effective use of data influence the way healthcare organizations serve diverse populations while developing empathy and trust-building skills.
Duration:
8 weeks
Price:
$2,995
CEUs:
16
Partner:
Improve Health Equity and Outcomes in Your Community
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are the broad range of non-medical factors that determine individual and population health. These factors encompass economic stability, education, income, language barriers, racial inequalities, and other discriminatory conditions that have a major influence on health outcomes and equal access to care, especially for the most vulnerable populations.
The innovative Certificate in Implementing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) aims to improve health equity by equipping you with the knowledge and skills you need to address the complexities of systemic and political inequities. Using practical, relevant techniques in human-centered design, project and program development, and by building influence and trust, you can make an immediate and sustainable impact in your workplace and community.
Develop fluency in identifying, gathering, and applying relevant data, including evaluation of impact.
Make a difference in your communities by using practical, relevant strategies in human-centered design, project, and program management, leveraging influence, and building trust.
Use ethical, productive, and innovative frameworks to develop and maintain SDOH projects and programs.
Identify priority issues related to SDOH and begin to address these priorities in ethical and productive ways.
Learner FAQs
Shared Common Competencies
- Leadership
- Communication
- Quality and Patient Experience
- Mental Health, Substance Abuse
- Resilience
- Cultural Engagement
Specialty Areas Supported
Unit-Specific Pathways
- MedSurg-Tele
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Acute Rehabilitation Unit (ARU)
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Emergency Room (ER)
- Labor & Delivery (L&D)
- Mother Baby Care (MBC)
- Operating Room (OR)
- Cath Lab
- Hospice
- Behavioral Health
- Critical Access Hospitals
Specific MedSurg Competencies
- Surgical Care
- Integumentary
- Respiratory
- Hematology
- Cardiovascular
- Gastrointestinal
- Renal
- Endocrine
- Neurological
Julie DeLoia, PhD
Chief Academic Officer of OpusVi™
In this program, learners will not just learn about the theory of social determinants of health, but also gain knowledge and skills that are immediately transferable to implement change in the workplace and communities. Learners will also gain skills to overcome obstacles to implementing change and how to evaluate program success.
Julie DeLoia, PhD
Providing development and education helps mitigate the impact of the negative aspects often associated with social determinants. The end result is a person who has specific social determinants who also seeks and is encouraged to develop themselves as a formidable professional who can have a significant positive impact on themselves and their community.
Thomas Brink | Retired President and CEO of Indiana University Health Workplace Health Services
FAQs
We are your partners from start to finish. View this FAQ for more information on who brings what to the table.
Curriculum
The Certificate in Implementing Social Determinants of Health will prepare you to identify and respond to challenges and opportunities in order to develop long-term models of value-driven accountable care within and across populations.
- Unit 1: Addressing SDOH to Achieve Health Equity
- Unit 2: Community Engagement to Advance your Strategy
- Unit 3: Frameworks to Drive Engagement
- Unit 4: Using SDOH Data and Insights to Inform Strategy
- Unit 5: Using SDOH Data and Insights to Inform Program Logistics
- Unit 6: Program Evaluation and Continuous Improvement
- Unit 7: Operations and SDOH: Addressing Obstacles
- Unit 8: Reform to Sustain and Scale Efforts
Outcomes
By the end of this program, you will be able to:
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the connections between SDOH and health equity
- Identify operational challenges in implementing and maintaining SDOH programs
- Develop the ability to influence others, whether they be employees, coworkers, administrators, or policymakers
- Gain confidence in undertaking a leadership role in SDOH in your organization and community
- Develop, step-by-step, an effective project or program plan related to SDOH that is uniquely tailored to the needs of your organization and community
Who should study this program?
This certificate program is ideal for healthcare professionals in the leadership role and aspiring leaders with an interest in Social Determinants of Health or who are called upon to become more deeply informed of these issues.
Learners who will benefit most from our Certificate in Implementing Social Determinants of Health are:
- Healthcare professionals in a leadership role and aspiring leaders who are looking to improve health equity in their community
- Healthcare administrators and care providers with a strong interest in social determinants of health
How do systems benefit?
You choose your organizational context as part of the project on social determinants of health. The SDOH project or program plan you work on will be of your choice.
Download our brochure on Implementing Social Determinants of Health.
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About Santa Clara University
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University blends high-tech innovation with a social consciousness grounded in the Jesuit educational tradition. Committed to leaving the world a better place, they pursue new technology, encourage creativity, engage with their communities, and share an entrepreneurial mindset to help shape the next generation of leaders and global thinkers.
The Silicon Valley Executive Center at Santa Clara University is more than just executive education. We develop ethical leaders who grapple with the complexities of the modern business environment to create better outcomes and a more just world. We will equip your team with the skills they need to drive business forward.
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