Health Governance Course

The Health Governance Course is an annual problem based course initiated in collaboration with the National Institute of Health of Italy. The course covers critical issues related to governance through analysis and solving of situational problems related to governance in healthcare at a system level.  The problems are arranged around the health services planning cycle and have a local context. This gives the course the ability to tailor its learning outcomes based on participants needs and current emerging health issues and problems.

The educational technique used in the course, problem based learning, is a well-established form of education that encourages discussion and reflection on current problems and how to offer solutions to solve them. Participants engage in a self-learning process that is guided by the course facilitators. This offers a differential approach in acquiring the necessary learning outcomes depending on the participants level of knowledge and time available to study.

The course content is distributed around the planning cycle with emphasis on principles of good governance. In doing so participants acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes for efficient planning while adherence to principle of good governance such as information utilization, participation, equity, transparency and accountability.