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 a 4-week period. Each of these sessions is 90 minutes (45 minutes Framework Sessions + 45 minutes Application sessions). The Certificate award is to be based validated 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 and builds on GDLN’s highly regarded webinars on the pandemic in March and April of 2020.

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 course 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.

TOPICS*

Framework Session (FS) Topics

• Knowledge for Resilience
• Modelling and Data Analysis
• Policy Structures and Instruments
• Interdependence, Systems and Simulation
• Communication and Leadership
• Economic and Social Dimensions
• Designing Renewal and Reconstruction
• Scenarios for Technology of the Future

Application Session Topics

• Experience of Covid-19 in Australia
• Assessing Pandemic Modelling and Policy
• COVID-19 Response in South Korea
• COVID-19 and Mental Health
• Korea’s Agile-adaptive Approach, a Policy of Transparency in Communicating Risk, and Citizens’ Voluntary Cooperation
• Comparing Crises: The Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19
• Social Health and the Pandemic
• Pandemics and Cyber-Security

*Subject to final confirmation.

12 HOURS FACE TIME
DELIVERED OVER FOUR CONSECUTIVE WEEKS BY
ZOOM

SCHEDULE AND FEES

Course dates:
10 NOVEMBER – 3 DECEMBER 2020
SESSIONS HELD TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS

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.

Course Delivery Times*

• Australia (AEST) 5:00pm to 6:30pm
• Bhutan (BTT) 12:00pm to 1:30pm
• China (CST)  2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Indonesia (WIB) 1:00pm to 2:30pm
• Nepal (NPT)  11:45am to 1:15pm
• Seoul (KST) 3:00pm to 4:30pm
• Philippines (PHST) 2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Singapore (SGT) 2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Sri Lanka (IST) 11:30am to 1:00pm
• Tanzania (EAT) 9:00am to 10:30am
• Zagreb (CEST) 8:00am to 9:30pm

*Times subject to final confirmation according to countries of enrolment

ENROLMENT INFORMATION
For more information and enrolment assistance, please contact:
LISA MATERANO
[email protected]
Mobile & WhatsApp: +61 438 134 558
WeChat: LisaMaterano