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TRAINING
Making
Decentralization Work: Tools for Health Policy Makers and Managers
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
June 6 - 17, 2011
WE
WILL NOT BE OFFERING THIS COURSE IN 2010.
Purpose
This course is designed for senior managers and policy makers who
might not be able to attend lengthy degree courses in health policy
and management. The issues encountered designing, implementing and
managing a decentralization transition include: financial, strategic,
and quality management, monitoring and evaluation, and teambuilding.
Experienced Harvard faculty members have developed this two-week
comprehensive workshop to better equip policy makers and managers
to meet those challenges. The first week will address the policy
level process while the second week will focus on enhancing management
skills in the context of decentralization. Participants can elect
to attend only the first week, however, everyone is encouraged to
attend the entire two-week program if possible.
Participants
will be learning from experience gained in the United States, as
well as many other countries of the world.
Course
Topics
- Health
System Decentralization: Policy Options
- Finance
and Expenditure Overview
- Introduction
to Decentralization Framework
- Human
Resources in Decentralized Health Systems:
- "Policy
Maker," Managing the Political Process
- Strategic
Management and Quality Management
- Leadership
- Negotiation
and Conflict Resolution
- Managing
Organizational Change
Who
Should Attend
This workshop has been designed for experienced, senior managers
and policy-makers in developing and transitional economies. Officials
who are concerned about implementing greater managerial autonomy
in previously rigid government bureaucracies will find the experience
very useful. Policy makers and managers will be expected from both
government and non-government organizations.
Educational
Approach
This workshop offers a blend of theory and practice, geared to an
audience that is focused upon implementation rather than research.
The workshop will include lectures, discussion groups, case studies,
problem sets and preparation of group and individual case presentations.
Classroom points will most often be made through active learning
methods, rather than through lectures. Lively discussion among experienced
participants is expected throughout. Participants are encouraged
to bring their own country material and resources on health systems
related to the process of decentralization and management.
About
the Course Directors
Dr.
Thomas Bossert and Dr. Paul Campbell serve as workshop directors. Dr. Bossert
will lecture on Decentralization. He is a Lecturer on Health Policy
and Senior Political Scientist in the Department of Population and
the Director of the Politics Governance Group and International Health
at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has directed technical
assistance projects and applied research in Latin America, Asia and
Africa on decentralization, institutional transformation and health
policy reform. Dr. Paul Campbell will lecture on Strategic Management.
He is a Lecturer on Management in the Departments of Population and
International Health and Health Policy and Management at the Harvard
School of Public Health. He is also the President of the Maine Center
for Public Health, and through that agency is responsible for federal
- state collaborative projects. He has nearly thirty years of experience
as a manager, consultant and teacher in the health field, in the U.S.
as well as overseas. Recently he has managed multi-year Harvard projects
in health sector reform in Poland and managed care in Zimbabwe and
directs a number of executive training courses in health administration.
Previous
Lecturers:
Peter A. Berman, Ph.D.
Professor, Int. Health Economics and Director, IHSP
Harvard School of Public Health
Barry C. Dorn, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Associate Director of Program for Healthcare Negotiation and Conflict
Resolution, Harvard School of Public Health
David G. Javitch, Ph.D.
President, Javitch Associates
Ann
Lawthers, Sc.D.
Center for Health Policy & Research
University of Massachusetts Medical School Gregory
P. Marchildon, Ph.D.
Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History
University of Regina
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