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July 13, 2007
Advanced Health Leadership Forum: University of California, Berkeley and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, Spain and San Francisco, California, USA
Dates: 13-20 July 2007 (Barcelona); 6-13 January 2008 (San Francisco)
Application deadlines: 15 April 2007 (Barcelona); September 2007 (San Francisco); requests for partial scholarships, due by March 30, 2007
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:
- Leadership, ethics and infectious disease preparedness workshops
- Evidence-based management
- Innovations in payer and health delivery connections
- Measurement and implementation strategies for assuring quality, equity and health system 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 techniques
- Dealing with aging, long term care, mental health challenges
Report on last session: 23 senior health care leaders from around the world convened in San Francisco, CA, on January 2007 at the Advanced Health Leadership Forum (AHLF) to pursue solutions for key health care challenges. Participants graduating in San Francisco also presented the work-related projects that they had completed with faculty mentors during the interim between sessions. This recent group hailed from 15 countries and their employers included the National Health Service, health ministries, public and private hospital organizations, insurance companies, 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, with over 80 prominent alumni of the three annual cycles.
Expert faculty were drawn from University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, and six universities in Europe.
Outside guest speakers included:
- 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;
- and additional executives from the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, WHO, the World Bank, and the European Union.
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 Vicente Ortun) have launched the fourth annual cycle starting in Barcelona this coming July. The second session will take place in San Francisco, CA in January 2008. Most participants attend the whole program—both sessions— in either order, but it is permissible to attend only one session.
In addition to annual speakers, Leonard Schaeffer, the creator and chairman of Wellpoint, will be coming to speak and interact with participants in San Francisco. Wellpoint is the most successful health insurance company in the United States and Leonard has proven himself a dynamic leader. Also coming to San Francisco will be Tom D’Aunno, Director of the Healthcare Management Initiative at INSEAD, France. Likely to come as well but not confirmed: George Halvorsen, Chairman of Kaiser Permanente and Peter Berman from Harvard University.
Apply now: Applications for the next cycle of the Advanced Health Leadership Forum are due by April 15, 2007. Or, if you plan to start January 2008 in San Francisco, apply now as well and no later than September 15, 2007. For more information, see http://ahlf.berkeley.edu/ or email Meg A. Kellogg, program administrator at ahlf@berkeley.edu. Partial scholarships for selected high-level participants may be available. Applications and resumes for partial scholarships are due March 30, 2007.
