Public health manager is: 

1. To use in his/her activity acts of current legislation, Constitution of Ukraine, normative documents concerning public health, basics of medical, economic and labor law, basics of international public health legislation, basics of strategic and operational planning.
2. To perform public health facilities management from the position of system approach of organization.
3. To provide interaction between medical institution and state public health authorities, local authorities, public organizations and other public health bodies; to provide execution of contracts and agreements.
4. To carry out flexible realization of strategic priorities and development plan of public health institution with stable orientation to customers’ (patients’) needs.
5. To provide staff management, forming administrative staff (selection, defining responsibilities, continuous professional development of administrative staff, etc.).
6. To be informed about social economic and demographic situation in the area, indices of public health, modern economic, organizational, medical and managerial technologies, trends and principles of management development, marketing in public health, commercial activity.
7. To master managerial decisions making, technology of informational provision of management process, forms and methods of work with mass media, business etiquette and negotiations and IT.