This course was created by the Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center and is part of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response PH 460 course series. The Illinois Preparedness Center requires a separate registration. Click the course title to launch to the registration page. When prompted, either login if you have an existing account with them, or register. You will then be allowed to register. When finished, print your completion certificate from Illinois, then return to the LMS and choose Mark Complete from the action menu in your Learning Plan found in your Workspace. This course was created by the Illinois Public Health Preparedness Center and is part of the Public Health Administration PH 450 course series. These courses can be taken separately and in any sequence desired. The overall PH 450 series provides an introduction to public health management and administration by examining the purpose, history, organization, functions, tools, activities and results. Case studies and a variety of practice-related exercises serve as a basis for learner participation in real world public health problem-solving simulations. The various components of these courses serve to stimulate interactions among learners and instructors around important problems and issues facing public health. Since computers and the Internet's World Wide Web are now basic tools for public health practitioners, these courses also seek to foster and enhance skills related to the use of technology for accessing and using information and for communicating with colleagues. Reading assignments are derived from various online sources that are identified in the exercises document for each course. The basic content for the Public Health Administration PH 450 Series is the text, Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-Based Management by LF Novick and GP Mays eds; Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 2001.