MLD 420 Teaching Health Leadership and Governance

Health Leadership and Governance is a pillar in the health system, yet there are few institutions that have focused on this domain. While most schools of public health focus the sciences like epidemiology and statistics, few courses are offered that equip the learners to deploy themselves as leaders in addressing health challenges.

The target learners of this course are faculty at schools of public health, nursing, or medicine who want to introduce leadership and/or governance courses into their curriculum. Program managers within the Ministries of Health, especially those involved in Human Resource Development are also encouraged to apply.

Course Rationale:

    1. Leadership is one of the WHO building blocks but the knowledge-based in health leadership and governance is highly context-specific and is marginalized by many Ministries of Health and schools of public health

    2. The Health Leadership and Governance Program and Bridging Leadership framework is a new set of tools that help changemakers lead beyond the boundaries of traditional program management and public administration

    3. In ASEAN, the Philippines and the UP-CPH may provide the unique role in providing Translation Science capabilities for emerging health systems in ASEAN

    4. The Civika Asian Development Academy and its Civika Universal Health Care Lab has worked on health leadership development programs though blended learning methods

Program Objectives:

    1. Support ASEAN health systems in leadership capacity development

    2. Increase Civika Asian Development Academy and other key partner’s capacities for national and ASEAN engagement

    3. Jointly develop viable and scalable learning programs

MLD 421: Leadership for Health Innovation: Universal Health Care Labs

Target Learners: MOH Officials in charge of Health Systems Development, Universal Health Care, and Innovation Management

Course objectives:

At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

    1. Explain the need for social and institutional innovations in Universal Health Care

    2. Setup Universal Health Care Labs in their own countries

    3. Plan co-creation interventions to converge their different programs through university-based UHC Labs