Global Health Care Leaders Program

  • Executive Education

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Application Deadline: September 5

Deadline Approaching Enroll now to secure your seat.

Gain experiential insights into cutting-edge health care innovation and build a powerful network of experts and peer leaders across health care.

  • Blended

This multi-modular program includes live virtual sessions with Harvard Medical School faculty and classroom modules at the Harvard Medical School Campus (Boston, Massachusetts).

$33,000

Flexible payment and team-based learning options are available.

Certificate

Upon completion of this program, you will receive a digital certificate from Harvard Medical School.

8 Months, 3 in-person modules, 3 virtual modules

In-person experiences will be supplemented by live virtual sessions and capstone project assignments.

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Overview

The Global Health Care Leaders Program is a multi-modular program that aims to bring together the most important topics defining the future of health care industry for the leaders who will lead the charge. Faculty from Harvard Medical School, as well as other leading industry experts, will provide insights to enable participants to craft ambitious solutions and shape health care globally.

The health care industry is dynamic and complex. It is experiencing rapid change due to emerging technologies. Established and emerging business leaders and their organizations are recognizing that success in this rapidly evolving industry now requires a fundamental understanding of current medical practices across the world, the changing economic and regulatory landscape of health care and cost vs return on innovation, the latest advances in science and medicine, as well as the threats of evolving pandemics and the prospects of evolving digital technologies and their applications within health care.

This program delivers hands-on experiences with best practices, strategic frameworks, and insights to help global health care leaders unlock opportunities and drive growth in health care.

Learning Objectives

  • Applying new insights and program learnings to day-to-day work, as well as long-term strategic priorities, to accelerate innovations that benefit patients and physicians
  • Understanding how digital health, AI, emerging technologies, reimbursement changes, and other converging forces are shaping the current and future health care ecosystems, and the business models and opportunities that will emerge
  • Strengthening your ability to lead effective change management and drive successful transformation processes within your organization and the health care industry

Participant Types

Professionals who seek the latest insights into this dynamic and complex industry, in order to become better leaders and innovators in their organization.

Program Format

The Global Health Care Leaders Program incorporates interactive lectures, case-based classroom sessions, immersive exercises that illuminate the challenges of health care, and visits to research labs, innovative companies, and other key components of the ecosystem in Boston. These in-person experiences will be supplemented by live virtual sessions and other curated resources at the beginning of the program and between classroom sessions.

Additionally, each participant will identify and work on a capstone project, which documents an innovation or process improvement that they will work to implement upon their return to their home countries and home institutions.

Program Experience

Curriculum

  • Leading Change in Health Care Delivery
  • Ecosystem Approach to Innovation
  • International & Leadership Perspectives, Project Work
  • Leading Digital Transformation in Health Care
  • Perspectives on Policy, Regulation & Reimbursement
  • Capstone Projects

Learn more about the program including schedule, key benefits, and the program brochure.

The Global Health Care Leaders Program is a multi-modular program delivered by Harvard Medical School Executive Education and is globally marketed by Northwest Executive Education (Subsidiary of Power Ahead Pte. Ltd).

Questions?

Contact one of our program advisors at ghlp@northwest.sg or +1 617-982-1635

Teaching Team

Learner Stories and Insights

Kathleen Kozak Headshot
Learner Story

Interview with Global Health Care Leaders Participant Kathleen Kozak

"I was amazed at the quality and comprehensiveness of the program. I don’t think that many other executive education programs have the same packed syllabus with the experts in the fields of all different disciplines giving us their best work in a couple of hours as this program did."

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