Health Systems Strengthening

HPM 564 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This course is designed to strengthen the role of nurse and midwife leaders in health systems, particularly in public health and primary care to achieve better health outcomes. It will cover approaches for analyzing contextual changes to identify opportunities and threats faced by health systems and for analyzing health systems performance to ascertain their strengths and weaknesses. It will explore how innovations in organization, financing, resource management (human resources, technologies, biomedicine, knowledge resources) and service delivery can be used to strengthen health systems by building on strengths and by addressing weaknesses to enable better response to emerging opportunities and threats. The course will help develop skills for the participants to enable more effective leadership and engagement of nurses and midwives in systematic analysis of health systems and development of context specific policies, strategies, regulations, through coalition building and community engagement. Participants will work with key partners (e.g., mentors; ministers of health, finance, and education; and community health workers) to ensure excellence in developing the right skills and knowledge to strengthen health systems. The course will use a mix of lectures, case studies, group work on real situations from different countries and discussions and will be delivered in nine, three-hour in person sessions. It will include pre- and post-course work to enable application of the frameworks, principles and skills learned in the course in real life settings relevant to the context of the participants.