Health

Health

alt Health indicators such as life expectancy, malnutrition, child mortality and HIV/AIDS infection rates have worsened over the last decade. Ineffective management of health workers and resources is a significant contributor to declining health outcomes. Forging a partnership between top local business schools and local health organizations (public, private and nonprofit) is an innovative approach to addressing to these problems.

Business Schools are an ideal venue for training managers and leaders strong in critical thinking and problem solving skills. In a sector as complex as health, such skills are crucial to creating efficient, effective systems for service delivery.

Health Leadership and Management Training Survey

Current

Thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, GBSN undertook a Health Leadership and Management Training Survey in three countries (Nigeria, Kenya, and Senegal) in order to provide a solid foundation for designing one or more interventions, drawing on the specific contributions of business schools, which will significantly strengthen health care management in these countries.

Past

On July 12, 2007 GBSN convened its International Advisory Board for Health Management along with several other experts and practitioners in the field of health management for a one-day workshop. This workshop focused on best practices and lessons learned in teaching leadership and management to health professionals, and using Business Schools as a venue for strengthening human resources for health in developing countries. This was made possible by a generous grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Food for Thought

“The global crisis is not just a problem with mortgage systems and the regulation of banks in one country with a domino effect into many others. It also forces universities and business schools to ask questions about the nature of business and management education, and the issues of ethics we incorporate.”

–Max Price, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town