The value of public health leadership and advocacy competencies

This assignment requires you to identify and analyze the value of public health leadership and advocacy competencies as those apply to your future career through written reflection and a final essay.  You are required to select three of the five questions below and address those in short essay (two to three paragraphs per response) form.

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This assignment requires you to identify and analyze the value of public health leadership and advocacy competencies as those apply to your future career through written reflection and a final essay. You are required to select three of the five questions below and address those in short essay (two to three paragraphs per response) form.

Instructions: Choose three of the questions below for your responses. TYPE DIRECTLY into the template, using complete sentences and adhering to professional writing expectations. You may write in first person tense as this is reflective writing. HOWEVER, MAKE SURE YOU USE YOUR OWN WORDS AND INCLUDE ANY NECESSARY CITATIONS!

1. Now that you have gained valuable leadership and advocacy knowledge and perspectives, think of a time where an awareness of leadership and/or advocacy competencies would have helped you make a better decision. Describe that experience and relate how, with what you know now, how you would have made the decision and why.

2. What leadership skills and competencies come into play during preparation for, and response to a disaster? Choose a recent natural disaster (i.e., hurricane, tornado, fire) or another disaster (i.e., shooting incident) and apply the skills and competencies that public health leaders would need for effective leadership and to implement solutions.

3. Identify three public health leadership competencies that you will continue to develop in your own personal growth and professional development plan. Why did you choose these competencies and what action steps do you plan to incorporate in to develop these competencies?

4. You were asked to create an advocacy action plan and to create an oral presentation that would be shared with a professional audience. How would this action plan presentation change, depending on the audience you are presenting to? For this question, identify three specific groups that you would need to gain support from and articulate how you would need to communicate with each of those particular groups (i.e., religious leaders, civic leaders, members of the community, etc.)

5. What are the differences between a SWOT analysis and a PEST analysis? How can you use each approach as a public health leader?