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January 10, 2010
Call for Nominations: Global Health Leadership Forum 2010
Location: Berkeley, California, US and Barcelona, Spain
Dates: January 10-16, 2010 and June 27-July 3, 2010
An innovative program for senior health executives focusing on the most pressing health policy and management issues. A joint program from theUniversity of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, the UPF Center for Research in Health and Economics and the Barcelona GraduateSchool of Economics
Applications
Currently being reviewed for January and June 2010 sessions. Apply online!
Program description:
The Global Health Leadership Forum is a unique certificate program for senior health care leaders focusing on key health policy and management issues. Participants grapple in a practical manner with the issues and options that have been converging internationally, learning approaches that have been proved to work and current innovations.
Participants will benefit from the GHLF’s small, interactive workshop atmosphere which encourages interaction between speakers and participants. Each of the two six-day sessions - session one in Berkeley and the follow-up session in Barcelona 6 months later - is filled with important topics presented by world-renown faculty & expert speakers, field trips, receptions, and festive dinners. The registration cost of the program covers daily breakfast, lunch, breaks, most dinners, course materials, & hotel accomodations. For more detailed information, please visit our website: http://ghlf.berkeley.edu
The alumni network from the past six years has over 180 leaders from 43 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
- Learnings in Health Systems reform
- UK experience with NICE (National Institute of Clinical Effectiveness).
Selected speakers:
Sir Richard Feachem, First Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Malcolm Potts, Chair of Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability, UC Berkeley; Ian Morrison, health care futurist; Peter Berman from Harvard University and the World Bank; Arnie Milstein, Thought Leader, Mercer and Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health; Philip Musgrove, Deputy Editor for Global Health, Health Affairs and former principal economist for Latin America, World Bank; Josep Figueras, Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and WHO health policy head; Rafael Bengoa, Director of Health, Basque Country; Ron Akehurst, founder of UK’s NICE; selected faculty from UC Berkeley, and several other European Universities.
Faculty directors:
Richard M. Scheffler, Dean Stephen M. Shortell (UCB), Andreu Mas-Colell (Barcelona GSE), Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas, and Vicente Ortun (UPF CRESBarcelona); FACULTY ADVISORS: Alex Preker (The World Bank), James Rice (Cambridge and Integrated Health Strategies), and GHLF Program Director, Meg A. Kellogg, UC Berkeley.
Contact ghlf with questions: ghlf@berkeley.edu or see website: http://ghlf.berkeley.edu
