PANDEMIC AND RESILIENCE POLICY: EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE MARCH 2021

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WHY THIS COURSE?

GDLN is helping to support an Executive Education Certificate as a new initiative. It is working with KDI School and Blended Learning International for this. The focus is Pandemic and Resilience Policy.

COVID-19 has been devastating for lives, economies, and societies around the globe. Countries everywhere are still grappling with the pandemic and its consequences. More broadly too, we can see new attention being paid by government, community, and business leaders in every country to resilience challenges. This course will equip participants to engage more effectively with the demands of resilience planning for crises.

The Executive Certificate course is to be delivered online in twice weekly sessions over four weeks with a middle break . Each of these sessions is 90 minutes (45 minutes Framework Sessions + 45 minutes Application sessions). The Certificate award is to be based on course participation, but no assessment is required at this executive level. The course has been designed to meet standards set by the Korea Development Institute.

The course follows a successful initial delivery of the course in October for the Asia-Pacific (and again in November for Africa, Middle East, and Eastern Europe) and builds on GDLN’s highly regarded webinars on the pandemic in March and April of 2020 (see gdlnglobal.org/covid-19/).

COURSE CONTENT AND APPROACH

The course is to be delivered live online. It is being coordinated by ANU Professor Glenn Withers, GDLN Global Board Chair. The presenters in the October and November courses included the following professors from Australia, Korea, and Singapore: Peter Collignon, Ramesh Thakur, Sangwoo Tak, Jo An Atkinson, M. Jae Joon, Jayant Menon, Greg Austin, Helen Dickinson and Glenn Withers.

Each ninety minute session provides first a framework for resilience followed by an expert application from the experience of the current crisis.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to understand the:

International and national approaches in pandemic and resilience policy,
Importance of multi-dimensional analytic approaches (health, economic and social),
Centrality of the human perspective,
Linkage between first response, initial recovery, and longer term regeneration,
Lessons of success and failure in resilience policy, and
Commonalities in resilience policy for quite distinct threats: cyber, pandemic, and climate change, among others.

CERTIFICATE TOPICS*

(FS: Framework Session, AS: Application Session)

WEEK 1

March 15th/16th

Course Introduction
FS1: Knowledge for Resilience
AS1: COVID-19 Response in South Korea

March 17th/18th

FS2: Modelling and Data Analysis
AS2: Pandemic Modelling and Policy
Participant Introduction

WEEK 2

March 22nd/23rd

FS3: Communication and Leadership
AS3: Korea’s Agile-adaptive Approach

March 24th/25th

FS4: Policy Structures and Instruments
AS4: Health, Policy and Society: Impact on National Education Systems

Holy Week Break: March 29th – April 2nd

WEEK 3

April 5th/6th

FS5: Interdependence, Systems and Simulation
AS5: Public Health Knowledge and Mixed Methods Research

April 7th/8th

AS6: Comparing Country Experiences
FS6: Economic and Social Dimensions

WEEK 4

April 12th/13th

FS7: Designing Renewal and Reconstruction
AS7: Social Health and the Pandemic

April 14th/15th

FS8: Scenarios for Technology of the Future
AS8: Pandemics and Cyber-Security
Course Evaluation

*Subject to final confirmation.

CONFIRMED PRESENTERS

Professor Greg Austin, IISS Singapore and Social Cyber Group
Professor Nicholas Beddle, Centre for Social Research and Methods ANU
Dr. Gisselle Gallego, University of Notre Dame Sydney
Prof Otto Granados, President, Advisory Board, Ibero-American States Organization for Education, Science and Culture, Former Minister of Education, Mexico.
Professor Yun Haiyoung, KDIS
Ms. Lisa Materano, BLI, Australia
Professor M. Jae Moon, Yonsei University
Professor Manuel Pérez-Jimenez, Dean of Medicine, and Health Sciences, North Region at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Professor Laura Ruiz, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Professor Sangwoo Tak, Seoul National University
Professor Glenn Withers, ANU

Remaining presenters to be confirmed.*

12 HOURS FACE TIME

DELIVERED OVER FOUR WEEKS BY ZOOM

SCHEDULE AND FEES

Course dates:

15/16 March – 24/25 2021;

5/6 APRIL – 14/15 april 2021

(MEXICAN/ASIA PACIFIC TIME)

SESSIONS HELD MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS CDMX (TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS FOR MANY OTHER TIME ZONES).

The full certificate fee is $750 AUD for individual participants.

For group enrolments, information will be provided upon request. For more information contact Lisa Materano as indicated below. Full fee enrolments are available up to commencement.

KDI scholarship applications to cover the full fee are available to selected participants. Please contact Lisa Materano as indicated below for more info. Scholarship applications close 5th of March 2021.