Summer School
Leadership in Health Promotion
Complexity, innovation and closing the gap of implementation
17-21 August 2009
The Summer School is organised by the Swiss
A full course brochure is available at http://www.ssphplus.ch/IMG/pdf/ssph_broch_Summer_2009_course_7.pdf
"…..Intersectoral action on health is essential for health equity. Yet intersectoral action is more often talked about than practised. effective intersectoral action has a particular set of preconditions. The collaborators, coming from different organizations, need to identify a commonality of interest, agree on a specific set of actions and invest a definite set of resources. These three conditions do not arise spontaneously; they are made to happen only with effective leadership.
Leaders are born with personality traits, but they can develop a range of skills to be more effective. A leadership team will be more effective if it draws upon the range of strengths from the different leadership types. Leaders in Health Promotion have to function efficiently across different health issues. And health promotion practitioners, as advocates for health equity, need to explore leadership in all its forms: personal leadership development, leadership at team level, leadership at the agency level, leadership at the community level and leadership at the professional level. …"
Objectives
This course explores issues of complexity, communication and innovation in health promotion leadership and provides practitioners with an opportunity to share experiences. On successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- know the principles of the systems approach and able to use this approach to establish health promotion in a complex environment
- understand different types of leaders and their contexts and know how to draw on leadership styles for more impact
- can analyze the legal and political context and know how to influence the decision making process in policy development
- appreciate how communication and negotiation is critical for effective implementation process
- know how to implement best practice and quality assurance in health promotion
- use more innovative approaches to implement health promotion
- critically reflect and learn from case studies of successes and failures
Methods
This one week summer school course is designed for professionals in health promotion or staff of development agencies dealing with health promotion.
The course is designed with the following principles in mind:
- combination of principles and sharing experiences in a workshop works best to improve capacities if done in an environement, where "Out of the Box" reflection is stimulated. A course during a summer school, joining people with similar ideas but different experiences and culture, is more attractive and worthwile
- Teachers and facilitators come also from different field and different culture and position: Exchange of ideas, successes and failures is more diverse but also more stringent.
- The selected topics are important for leaders and future leaders in Health Promotion � up to date approaches are used to stimulate the discussion and learning
More Information
Online registration form is available at http://www.ssphplus.ch/summerschool
For specific questions regarding the Summer School 2009 please email: Ms Lucia Bassetti at lucia.bassetti@lu.unsi.ch
All lectures and seminars are held at the
Università della Svizzera italiana, Via G. Buffi 13, CH-6900 Lugano (
Phone +41 91 666 48 16 Fax +41 91 666 47 33 www.unisi.ch
Dr Gauden GALEA (高力), Coordinator, HPR, NMH/CHP/HPR WHO, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Tel: + 41 (22) 791 2582 Mob: + 41 (79) 596 5720 Fax: + 41 (22) 791 1389
SkypeID: gauden.galea Web: http://www.who.int/hpr Blog: http://intranet.who.int/blogs/hpr
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