Meeting the challenge of the UN Millennium Development Declaration, “to promote a comprehensive approach and a coordinated strategy, tackling many problems simultaneously across a broad front’ will require inspired managers with strong leadership skills. Through collaboration with Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a leading management and health NGO, this course will prepare health managers, consultants, and donors to lead organizations to face priority health challenges and achieve results. Students will learn practical leadership and management skills and apply these skills in the complex conditions of health in the developing world. Students will have opportunities to work in teams to develop leadership practices, values and methods needed to lead and manage groups and organizations. The center piece of the program involves working virtually with an MSH field team in Africa, Asia, or Latin America to assess the current situation related to an MDG goal, develop a leadership challenge in collaboration with the field team, and make action plans to meet the challenge within existing resource constraints. In addition, the course provides opportunities to work with and learn about the work currently being done by Management Sciences for Health. Class meets 7/6-7/29/10.

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