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June 28, 2009
Global Health Leadership Forum: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Dates: 28 June - 4 July 2009
An innovative program for senior health executives: a program from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Session 2: June 28-July 4, 2009
Barcelona GSE and CRES
(UPF Economics and Health Research Center)
APPLICATIONS: Currently being reviewed for the June 2009 sessions. Apply online at: http://ahlf.berkeley.edu/
Program Description:
The Global Health Leadership Forum is an offering from the University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health in conjunction with Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE) together with the UPF Economics and Health Research Center (CRES). The Global Health Leadership Forum is a unique certificate program focusing on key health policy and management issues. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the 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.
The alumni network has over 120 leaders from 37 countries. These represent senior health leaders of nations, global organizations and senior executives of enterprises such as insurance, pharmaceutical, and health care delivery.
Sample Topics:
- Workshops on leadership, evidence-based management, and health system ethics
- Effective policy implementation and strategies for health systems change
- Achieving public and private health insurance mix
- Innovations in payer and health delivery connections
- Effective managed care techniques
- Using cost-effectiveness analysis to define “best coverage and delivery buys”
- Technology changes and future health care predictions
- Field trip to Kaiser Permanente including their IT and care management systems
- Health care integration
- Managing medical groups
- Pharma innovation, pricing, and regulation
- Governance systems for health
- Insurance reform learnings from The Netherlands, France, Germany, China, and Latin America
- UK experience with NICE: development and application of care assessments and protocols.
SELECTED JANUARY SPEAKERS:
Sir Richard Feachem, First Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Ian Morrison, health care futurist; Peter Berman from Harvard University and the World Bank; high level officials from Kaiser Permanente; Arnie Milstein, Mercer and Pacific Business Group on Health, and expert faculty from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.
FACULTY ADVISORS:
Richard M. Scheffler, Dean Stephen M. Shortell (UCB Faculty), Andreu Mas-Colell (Barcelona GSE), Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas, Vicente Ortun, and Ivan Planas (UPF CRES Barcelona), James Rice (Cambridge and Integrated Health Strategies), Alex Preker ( The World Bank), and Meg A. Kellogg, GHLF Program Director, UC Berkeley
CONTACT GHLF WITH QUESTIONS: ghlf@berkeley.edu
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