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January
Global Health Leadership Forum: University of California, Berkeley
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Dates: 11-18 January 2009
Venue: TBA
Website: http://ahlf.berkeley.edu/
An innovative program for senior health executives: a program from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, co-founded with UPF/CRES, Barcelona
Description: A certificate program in which renowned senior faculty and leaders from key international and national organizations interact with high-level participants regarding evidenced-based solutions to key policy and management issues. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the issues and options that have been converging internationally. The alumni network has over 100 leaders from 35 countries.
Sample Issues Include:
- Workshops on leadership and evidence-based management
- Effective policy implementation and strategies for health systems change
- How to assure quality
- Achieving appropriate public vs. private health insurance mix
- Innovations in payer and health delivery connections
- Lessons learned from managed care techniques / innovative budgeting techniques
- Using cost-effectiveness analysis to define “best coverage and delivery buys”
- Making use of the new consumerism
- “Information therapy” prescriptions for consumers
- Technology changes and future health care predictions
- Workshops on pandemic preparedness and health care ethics
- IT and care management systems including a field trip to Kaiser Permanente
Selected San Francisco Speakers:
- Sir Richard Feachem, First Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria;
- Ian Morrison, health care futurist;
- Leonard Schaeffer, founding Chairman of WellPoint; high level officials from Kaiser Permanente;
- Arnie Milstein, expert on health care purchasing, and expert faculty from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.
Faculty Advisors: Richard M. Scheffler, Dean Stephen M. Shortell (UCB Faculty), Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas (UPF Barcelona), and Alex Preker (World Bank)
Program Director: Meg A. Kellogg
Email: ghlf@berkeley.edu
Applications: Currently being reviewed for San Francisco January 2009
