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TRAINING
Making
Decentralization Work: Tools for Health Policy Makers and Managers
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
August 12 - 23, 2013
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 Global Health and 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. Campbell will lecture on strategic management.
He is a lecturer on management in the Departments of Global Health
and Population, and Health Policy and Management at the Harvard
School of Public Health. He is a former 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. He has managed multi-year Harvard projects
in health sector reform in Poland, and managed care in Zimbabwe.
He directs a number of executive training courses in health administration.
Previous Lecturers:
Peter A. Berman, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Population and International Health Economics
Harvard School of Public Health
Barry C. Dorn, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Negotiation Associates
Associate Director of Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict
Resolution
Harvard School of Public Health
David G. Javitch, Ph.D.
President, Javitch Associates
Adjunct Assistant Professor on Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health
Ann Lawthers, Sc.D.
Director of Quality, Office of Clinical Affairs
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community
Health
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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