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Strategies, actionable advice, tools, and skill development to improve a health system’s:

• Outcomes,equity,andvalue

• Financialriskprotection

• Responsivenessandresiliency

• Innovationcapacity

• PotentialforpartnershipwithcorporationsandNGOs

“With these tools, you can significantly improve the performance of a health system”

“This is game-changing”

EducationforDepartments/MinistriesofHealth,Corporations,Consultancies,Institutions,andNGOs

HEALTH SYSTEMS

Sept 26–30

2016 Boston, MA

Improving Outcomes, Equity, and Value

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Challenges facing national health care systems around the globe are daunting and universal. Are you prepared for them?

Whether you work in government, an NGO, or a global corporation, you need to keep up with advanced and new approaches to assessing and optimizing health system performance. New and more sophisticated methods, insights, and tools will enhance your ability to respond to today’s needs, to generate collective value, and to find workable solutions to nagging problems.

We invite you to apply to attend a special and new executive education program, Health Systems: Improving Outcomes, Equity, and Value, in which participants will learn and practice these new approaches and leave equipped to use them.

This program will provide you with practical strategies, actionable advice, and skill development to enable you to be an effective change agent in these key areas:

• Outcomes, equity, and value creation• Financial risk protection • Responsiveness and resiliency• Innovation capacity• Partnerships with ministries, corporations, and NGOs This five-day program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is designed specially for professionals seeking to take their skills to a higher level in pursuit of better and stronger health systems across the globe. We look forward to seeing you in class.

Program Directors Rifat Atun and Peter Berman are world-renowned leaders in the field of health system improvement, and optimization experts with extensive experience working with departments and ministries of health, corporations, and NGOs to improve health system outcomes, equity, and value.

Faculty

John E. McDonough, DrPH, MPA Professor of Public Health PracticeDepartment of Health Policy and ManagementDirectorCenter for Executive and Continuing Professional EducationHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Margaret Kruk, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Global HealthDepartment of Global Health and PopulationHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Joshua Salomon, PhD Professor of Global HealthDepartment of Global Health and PopulationHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Elizabeth Seeley, PhD Research Consultant and Instructor in Pharmaceutical PolicyHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Rifat Atun, MBBS, MBA Professor of Global Health Systems Department of Global Health and Population Department of Health Policy and Management Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Peter Berman, MSc, PhDProfessor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics Department of Global Health and Population Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is home to the most sophisticated and cutting-edge health systems team in the world—the authors of Getting Health Reform Right and experts who guide departments and ministries of health around the globe (and corporations and NGOs that work with them) to improve their health systems’ outcomes, equity, and value.

This special program offers a rare opportunity to learn directly from the School’s leading faculty about health system analysis and strategies and how to put them into practice to achieve your key system objectives.

The education is immersive. As a participant, you will be introduced to the health system analysis and optimization frameworks developed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty and leave the program having gained the skills to use them to lead health system improvement and innovation initiatives.

You will also learn the strategies that make a health system more responsive and more resilient. These system traits are particularly important given the dynamic contexts in which health systems now operate.

A Dynamic Learning Experience Participants of this program will:• Learn a coherent and coordinated approach to

health system analysis for improvement of health outcomes, equity, and value

• Be introduced to the newest tools developed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty for health system analysis and improvement

• Practice using these tools in advanced ways to better understand their own health system and its reform opportunities, consequences, and challenges

• Take home these highly adaptable tools —resources that will serve them now and throughout their professional careers

EDUCATION FOR:

Leaders within ministries/departments of:• Health• Finance• Education• Labor• Economic

development

Corporate executives within these industries:• Health insurance • Pharmaceutical• Medical device• Hospital• Health care delivery• Health care

management• Financial• Consulting

Leaders within institutions and foundations in:• Global health• NGOs• Global philanthropy• Health care

foundations...and other executives who lead or support initiatives to improve health systems.

Credits: This program is accredited by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Credit types and amounts will be determined once the agenda has been finalized, and are subject to change.

HEALTH SYSTEMS: IMPROVING OUTCOMES, EQUITY, AND VALUE

The 2016 program includes strategies, tools,

and skills development for better:

• Healthsystemanalysis• Performance

improvement• Harnessingchange-

drivers• Correlationofquality,

efficiency,andhealthoutcomes

• Policiestoimprovehealthoutcomesandequity

• Valuegeneration• Innovationwithinthe

system• Partnershipswith

corporationsandNGOs

• Predictionofthepoliticalimpactofhealthsystempolicychanges

• Reflectionofsocialgoals

• Facilitatingfinancialobjectives

• Systemresiliency• Stakeholder

management• Healthsystemreform

HEALTH SYSTEMS: IMPROVING OUTCOMES, EQUITY, AND VALUE

Thestructures,processes,andoutcomesthatmatterwhenjudginghealthsystemperformance

Importantcontextualelementstounderstandhowwellorhowpoorlyhealthsystemsfunction

Howoutcomesrelatetoqualityandefficiency

Policychoicesavailabletogovernmentsandotheractorstoimproveoutcomes

Howequityshouldfitinjudginghealthsystemperformance

Theimpactsofideology,experience,andself-interestonstakeholderviewsofhealthsystemgoalsandperformance

Therolesofinstitutions,parties,andNGOsinthedevelopment,success,andfailureofsystemreforms

Howinnovationcanspurimprovedsystemperformance

Thekeyinstigatorsofandconstraintstoinnovation

Howwecanformulateeffectivesolutionstoproblems

Howwecanconstructasharedvisionforimprovement

Howwecanconfrontobstaclesandimpedimentstosystemimprovement

Mastersystemframeworkstoanalyzeandoptimizehealthsystempoliciesandperformance

Understandandengageeffectivelywithkeystakeholdersinnationalhealthsystemsandtheirreforms

Predictthepoliticaleconomyofhealthsystempolicychanges

Designyourownhealthsystemreformsandthestrategiestoachievethem

Case StudiesCasestudiesdemonstrateapplicationoftheprinciplestaughtinthisprogramandtheirimpactonhealthsystemsimprovementincountriesacrossSouthAmerica,Asia,Europe,andtheUnitedStates.

Inquiries: Call +1-617-432-2100 or e-mail contedu@hsph.harvard.edu

Payment Policy Payment must be received in US funds to process your registration. Payment by credit card is strongly preferred (Visa, MasterCard, AmEx). Checks must be drawn from a US bank and made payable to: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ECPE. Please be sure the participant’s name is on the check. Note: Please do not make non-refundable flight arrangements until you have received confirmation of your accepted application and paid registration from us.

Cancellation Policy All requests for cancellations must be made in writing. Cancellations on or before August 8, 2016 will be issued a refund less a $150 administrative fee per person. Cancellations received between August 9, 2016 and September 4, 2016 will be issued a refund of 50%. After September 5, 2016, no refund will be issued. Application Criteria Education/experience commensurate with professional achievement and organizational responsibility, as noted in this brochure. Proficiency in written and spoken English is essential for a successful learning experience in the program. If you are not a US citizen or permanent resident, you must obtain appropriate immigration status. Letters of invitation for visa applications will be supplied only after full payment is processed.

Please note: A laptop or other portable personal computing device is strongly recommended for course enrollees.

The program takes place at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, located in the heart of the Harvard Longwood Campus in Boston. Public transportation is readily available to the city’s many shopping districts, museums, and restaurants.

Program Check-in

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health FXB Building 651 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

Accommodations

A limited number of hotel rooms will be reserved at a discounted rate. Please visit the website (URL above) for the latest information on hotel room reservations.

APPLICATION

Program Fee: $5,200Fee includes continental breakfasts, lunches, refreshment breaks, evening reception, comprehensive web-based reference materials, continuing education credits, and certificate of participation from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Please note applicants to Health Systems: Improving Outcomes, Equity, and Value will be admitted on a competitive basis, once an application has been completed and submitted, at least four weeks before the program start date. Admission is selective and based on professional achievement and organizational responsibility. We also seek an overall mix of participants that reflects a broad range of countries and backgrounds and who can enrich others’ learning experience. Early application is encouraged.

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