Advanced Leadership
In today’s challenging health market, strong leadership is essential to address the rapid change in global health needs and emerging socio-economic issues. Technical skills, cognitive abilities, and emotional intelligence are three major components of a set of skills health leaders require. WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education and Training Advanced Leadership course is a one-week intensive training that equips health professionals with the tools requires to manage this organisations, services and health systems efficiently and effectively. The content of the course is built around WHO framework and aims to help participants become more successful leaders in a knowledge-based health system.
The programme is designed to be highly participatory and interactive with modern teaching methods applied and case studies.
Key benefits
Staff from WHOCC have designed and developed this practical interactive programme to realise the potential of aspiring and senior health leaders across nations. Participants will be able to:
- Understand the characteristics of good leadership and how to achieve it
- Explore the ways leaders excel in their jobs
- Exercise situational leadership and how and when to apply it
- Comprehend how good leaders communicate and why some fail
- Experience how to develop leadership skills
- Engage in leadership in practice
Learning Outcomes
- Fully understand the role of leaders in achieving the
goals of the organization through innovations and
creativity - Present effective communication both verbally and
non-verbally - Describe how effective and efficient leaders lead
- Demonstrate how leaders look after their teams and
inspire them to thrive - Interpret the leadership values and ethics, appraise
them and adapt to their cultural context
Participant profile
This course is designed to meet the needs of policy makers, health managers, heads of clinical/administrative departments, health professionals with an interest in management, staff in international/regional organisations, academic health directorates and authorities, and other interested stakeholders.
The face-face version of this course can be delivered in any location worldwide, and will require five working days.
For more details please see the Course brochure which you can find at the bottom of this page.
Course duration: 3 weeks (one day a week of live contact + self study+ assignments)
Previous Course dates:
18th October - 1st November 2021, Online
9th - 14th March 2020, London, WHO CC
14th - 18th October 2019: London, WHO CC
29th July - 2nd August 2019: Geneva & London, WHO CC
19th - 23rd November 2018: London, WHO CC
6th - 10th August 2018: London, WHO CC
5th - 12th August 2017: Dubrovnik, Croatia, InterUniversity Centre
Organised by: WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education & Training & Zagreb Institute for the Culture of Health
Aimed at: Policy makers, health managers, heads of clinical and administrative departments, health professionals with an interest in management, and other interested stakeholders
Course director: Professor Salman Rawaf
Course co-ordinator: Ms Ela Augustyniak
3rd - 7th July 2017: London, WHO CC
Bespoke courses can be organised on request.
How to apply
Please click here to go to the registration form.
Please contact Ms Ela Augustyniak if you are interested in arranging a bespoke course.
Please see below for the course brochure:
