Over 30 health professionals participates in the Global Health Effectiveness Program last summer.

Are you a public health, medical leader, or mid-career health practitioner? Do you have a passion for improving service delivery to patients?

The Global Health Effectiveness (GHE) Program is an intensive three-week summer program that provides in-depth learning in value-based health care delivery from renown leaders in the field. Students in the GHE program are required to take three courses at HSPH, each with a different teaching approach. The curriculum features seminar-style lectures and problem sets in epidemiology, global health delivery case study analysis, and the opportunity to hear from experts’ first-hand perspectives and experiences in management science.

For the past four years, GHE has enabled and empowered more than a hundred health care professionals to effectively design and manage programs that improve health outcomes for the populations they serve. Past participants represent a wide variety of cultural and professional backgrounds and hail from the far stretches of the globe, from Haiti, to Ethiopia, Kenya to India, among others. They have worked on nearly every continent, serving as a public health doctor in South Korea or as a Global Health Fellow with Partners in Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima in Rwanda.

After learning about the success of the CHW [Community Health Worker] program in Maharashta, a 2010 GHE alum was inspired to develop a similar program. Dan Schwarz, a 2009 alum  also valued the opportunity to learn from and apply the lessons of others to his own work with Nyaya Health, a nonprofit that operates a hospital and mobile medical care services in Achham, a large rural district in western Nepal.

The 2012 program runs July 5 through July 27, and will be held at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in Boston, Massachusetts.  GHE is co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, under the direction of Harvard faculty on the staff of Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Want to learn more, ready to apply? Click here to read more about GHE 2012, and here to access the application. Any questions can be sent to ghe@globalhealthdelivery.org.