The goal of this leadership series at Harvard School of Public Health is to enhance the decision-making knowledge of students and to generate ideas that can provide solutions and strategies to challenging global and domestic health problems.
Tough decisions are the essence of leadership and help shape and translate policy. Senior decision-makers will be invited to specifically address the practical aspects of judgment and decision making—how to assemble the strongest evidence, how to communicate effectively in tough environments around tough issues, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to maximize influence while making critical decisions.
Students will also learn from these experienced leaders what decisions worked, what decisions failed, and what decisions, if any, could have been made differently. See previous videos.
LATEST VIDEO: Lord Nigel Crisp on Battling the Future of National Health Service (UK)
February 16, 2012
Lord Nigel Crisp is an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords in London, England, where he speaks mainly on global health and international development. He was Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England—the largest health organization in the world with 1.3 million employees—and Permanent Secretary of the UK Department of Health between 2000 and 2006. Previously he had been Chief Executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK’s leading academic medical centers. Lord Crisp chairs Sightsavers International—a charity which promotes quality of opportunity for disabled people in the developing world; is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement; a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at HSPH; an Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge.
