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January 7, 2007
Advanced Health Leadership Forum: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona and University of California, Berkeley
Location: San Franciso, California, USA and Barcelona, Spain
Dates: 7-13 January, 2007 (San Francisco), July 13-20, 2007 (Barcelona)
Application deadlines: 15 October 2006 to start the program in San Francisco this January; requests for the next round of partial scholarships,due by 30 September 2006
Website: http://ahlf.berkeley.edu
Email: ahlf@berkeley.edu
Course Description: The Advanced Health Leadership Forum is a joint offering from University of California Berkeley and the Center for Research in Health and Economics (CRES), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. The Advanced Health Leadership Forum is a unique certificate-based international health program focusing on key health policy and management issues, emphasizing the health economics and business perspective. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the health policy issues and options that have been converging internationally. They learn policies and management/leadership approaches that work, find out which approaches have been tried and have not been successful, and learn about current innovations.
Sample Content:
- Workshops on leadership and evidence-based management
- Innovations in payer and health delivery connections
- Measurement and implementation strategies for assuring quality, equity and health systems change
- Public and private health care insurance
- IT and care management systems, including field trip to Kaiser Permanente
- Technology changes and future health care predictions to prepare for
- Pharmaceutical innovation, pricing and regulation
- Defining benefit packages, explicit priority setting and rationing
- Making effective use of the new consumerism
- Lessons learned from managed care and innovative budgeting and risk adjustment techniques
- Workshops on infectious disease preparedness and health care ethics
Report on last session: 20 senior health care leaders from around the world convened in Barcelona in July, 2006 at the Advanced Health Leadership Forum (AHLF) to pursue solutions for key health care challenges. Participants graduating in Barcelona also presented the work-related projects that they had completed with faculty mentors during the interim between sessions. This recent group hailed from England, US, Spain, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, South Africa, Nigeria, and Chile. Their employers included the National Health Service, health ministries, public and private hospital organizations, insurance companies, consulting companies, legislatures, universities and health care research foundations. There was fantastic bonding among participants and electronic communications methods have been launched to keep them in touch with each other and past program alumni. This continuing networking has already begun.
Upcoming speakers include:
- Ian Morrison, well-known health care futurist,
- Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- Robert Pearl, CEO, The Permanente Medical Group,
- Arnold Milstein, world expert on innovations in purchasing health care, Mercer and Pacific Business Group on Health
- Molly Coye, founder and CEO, Health Technology Center Institute for the Future,
- Susan Desmond-Hellmann, President, Product Development at Genentech,
- Gail Wilensky, senior US health policy consultant,
- David Lawrence, retired chairman, Kaiser Permanente
- Additional executives from the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, WHO, the World Bank, an the European Union and expert faculty from the University of California, Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and five additional Universities
Originators of the program, the University of California’s School of Public Health (Dean Stephen Shortell, Professor Richard Scheffler, Program Administrator Meg Kellogg) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Professors Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas and Pere Ibern) have launched another set of sessions beginning this January in San Francisco. The second session will take place in Barcelona in July 2007. Most participants attend the whole program—both sessions and in either order; but it is permissible to attend only one session.
Apply now: Applications for the next cycle of the Advanced Health Leadership Forum are due by October 15, 2006. For more information, see http://ahlf.berkeley.edu or email Meg A. Kellogg, program administrator at ahlf@berkeley.edu.
Sponsorship by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others will facilitate the awarding of partial scholarships for selected high-level participants. Applications for the next round of scholarship awards are due September 30, 2006.
