The Summer Session offers courses for academic credit in the following concentrations:

• Biostatistics
• Environmental Health
• Epidemiology
• Health Policy and Management
• Society, Human Development, & Health

$34,085 per year (for full-time master's degree students )

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/finaid/apply.shtml
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/finaid/external-finaid.shtml

Elizabeth Groom, program coordinator
Department of Epidemiology
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: +1 (0)617 432 1498
Fax: +1 (0)617 566 7805
E-mail: egroom@hsph.harvard.edu
Internet: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Register/ipid.html

• Medical directors of managed care plans and group practices
• Clinical executives of hospitals, multi-hospital systems, community health centers, pharmaceutical firms
• Clinical leaders from organizations such as physician-hospital organizations, medical service organizations, and independent practice associations
• Applicants accepted into the program must demonstrate, through grades and standardized test scores (MCATs or GREs), the potential to learn effectively in a challenging educational environment. Managerial experience and responsibilities indicating executive leadership potential are required. An applicant's ability to contribute to, as well as draw from, the experiences and education of other program participants is also essential.

Scholarship Information

Colin Fleming, Program Coordinator
M.S. in Health Care Management program
Email: mhcm@hsph.harvard.edu
Tel: +1 (0)617 432 70 75
Internet: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/mhcm/index.html

KEY TOPICS
• Ethical Guidelines for Research Involving Human Subjects • Proposed Changes to International Guidelines • Cultural Absolutism vs. Cultural Relativism • Individual and Group Rights •Ethical Review Boards/Institutional Review Boards • Informed Consent• Confidentiality • Conflict of Interest and Scientific Misconduct • Standards of Care • Responsibility of Researchers to the Community • Issues in Genetic Research • Research in Disasters and Complex Emergencies • Role of Medical Journal, the Press, and Others in Maintaining Ethical Standards • Stem Cell Research• Innovative Therapy versus Drug Testing.

You've recently read about the priority of human resources development in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in such publications as The Lancet and The New York Times (see references below). This suscessful course is specifically designed to address that priority by providing participants with new and innovative ways of addressing human resources policy and management issues. Individuals and country teams will learn from experts as well as peers from other nations and will develop their own draft country Strategic Plans for Human Resources. Until recently human resources training has focused on personnel management and on static models of planning for the public sector. This course, however, has been formulated to incorporate new and innovative strategies that include both the public and private sectors.

Course Topics

• Strategic Planning and Human Resources
• Financing Capacity for Human Resources
• Management Control and Human Resources
• Health Status and Human Resources activities
• Management Capacity and Human Resources
• Leadership and Institutional Change
• Education Capacity and Human Resources
• Conflict Resolution for Human Resources

This course is designed for senior managers and policy makers who might not be able to attend lengthy degree courses in health policy and management. The issues encountered designing, implementing and managing a decentralization transition include: financial, strategic, and quality management, monitoring and evaluation, and teambuilding. Experienced Harvard faculty members have developed this two-week comprehensive workshop to better equip policy makers and managers to meet those challenges. The first week will address the policy level process while the second week will focus on enhancing management skills in the context of decentralization. Participants can elect to attend only the first week, however, everyone is encouraged to attend the entire two-week program if possible.

Participants will be learning from experience gained in the United States, as well as many other countries of the world.

Course Topics

• Health System Decentralization: Policy Options
• Finance and Expenditure Overview
• Introduction to Decentralization Framework
• Human Resources in Decentralized Health Systems
• Policy Maker," Managing the Political Process
• Strategic Management and Quality Management
• Leadership
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
• Managing Organizational Change

Around the world governments are trying to assess and improve the quality of health services. These tasks are of even greater importance in those countries where the responsibility for providing health care is being decentralized and the private sector in taking a steadily larger role. This course has been designed to improve the conceptual and practical skills of senior officials.
Content: This two-week course will cover a number of topics related to improving the quality of care in health systems. While both theory and practice will be included, the emphasis will be on practical skill building.

Topics to be addressed:

• Health Sector Reform and Its Relationship to Quality
• Management Reform
• Overview of Quality
• Accreditation
• Strategic Planning for Quality
• Developing and Implementing Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Human Resources
• Organizational Change
• Performance Contracting
• Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

Chairs of clinical departments traditionally have faced complex responsibilities because of their multiple tasks – patient care, teaching, research, and administration. In recent decades, this complexity has increased as many departments have expanded.
The Program for Chiefs of Clinical Services brings together chiefs of major clinical departments in teaching hospitals and health systems and an experienced interdisciplinary faculty for two weeks of intensive and systematic study of some of the critical leadership and management issues facing chiefs, their departments, and teaching hospitals.

The curriculum of the Program is organized around the following interrelated courses taught by a faculty experienced in executive education for physicians and other key decision-makers in the health system:

• Institutional Policy and Strategy
• Health Economics
• Financial Analysis and Control
• Management of Operations
• Organizational Issues
• Legal Issues

A carefully integrated curriculum permits participants to examine fundamental managerial issues from the perspective of several disciplines. A new program initiative or downsizing proposal, for example, may raise managerial problems concerning departmental and institutional strategy; the application and utility of systems analysis and quantitative analytical methods; basic economic trends and legal constraints; financial analysis and control; and organizational behavior, design and development.

The case method confronts the participant with an actual management problem, halted at a point where decisions must be made, and forces the participant to choose a course of action. Participants go through a three-step study process. First, participants study each case independently. Then they meet in small discussion groups to test their individual analyses against those of their peers. Finally, the entire class discusses the case, with the professor as catalyst and guide. The professor points out considerations the class has overlooked; elicits from participants the lessons of experience; pursues each line of investigation to its conclusion; and finally, summarizes the discussion and draws out the major lessons it has taught.