29th July to 8th August 2019, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Experienced Harvard faculty developed the workshop Making Decentralization Work: Tools for Health Policy Makers and Managers to better equip policy makers and managers to meet the challenges encountered designing, implementing and managing a health care decentralization transition. While both theory and practice will be included, the emphasis will be on practical skill building. Participants will learn from experience gained in the U.S.A, as well as many other countries.

Course Topics:

• Health System Decentralization: Policy Options
• Finance and Expenditure Overview
• Introduction to Decentralization Framework
• Leadership
• Human Resources in Decentralized Health Systems
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• Policy Maker, Managing the Political Process
• Managing Organizational Change
• Strategic Management and Quality Management

Published in GI-Mail 03/2019 (English edition). Sign up for GI-Mail here.  

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