The newly re-designed Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing is offered by the World Bank Institute in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health, and has been redesigned following it's initial offering in 1997. The course introduces a practical and comprehensive framework for understanding health systems and their performance and a structured approach to developing health system reform policies to improve that performance. Specific course modules examine the theoretical and empirical basis for reform strategies in such diverse areas as health financing, payment systems, organizational change, regulation, and population and provider behavior, making extensive use of case materials from countries in all regions and at all levels of development.

The Course will enable participants to: · Speak a "common language" about dimensions of health sector reform and achieve deeper understanding of heath finance issues and sustainable financing options; · Situate their health systems within a taxonomy of health systems according to structural, financial, and functional characteristics; · Assess how well their national health systems perform according to explicit criteria including health status, financial protection, patient satisfaction, efficiency, and sustainability. · Determine alternate paths their national health systems could take, and why it would be desirable to pursue some paths over others; · Understand how to move their national health system from its current state to a desired future state; and · Understand how to select and apply tools and procedures to make desired changes and to assess their effects.

Mid-to high level government officials working in the health sector, NGOs, PVOs, Health managers, Academia, donor representatives and Bank staff

Shenna Ross
Tel: +1 (0)202 458-7829
Email: sross1@worldbank.org
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The course integrates three thematic clusters
1. New Policy Directions: MDGs Related to Health and Gender, and Poverty Reduction Strategies 2. Design and Delivery of Health Services and Programs
3. Health Services and Health Sector Reform which are presented through a combination of presentations, readings, case examples and group work.

This course will provide state-of-the-art knowledge and skills for key stakeholders to design and deliver more efficient, equitable, and financially sustainable health interventions in the context of health sector reforms and evolving international policies.

June 30, 2008
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Ministry of Health, NGOs, Private Sector, UN staff, Bank staff

Task Admin: Michelle Morris
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The overall program goal is to support successful implementation of equitable, efficient, and financially sustainable interventions to accelerating the MGDs and other health outcomes in the context of health sector reforms. The program would ensure (i) that demand side factors are fully integrated into health interventions targeting the MDGs, and (ii) that health sector development programs and reforms contribute to rather than undermine efforts to achieve health-related MDGs, including gender equity, universal access to reproductive health services, lowering of maternal and child mortality, and overcoming the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The course will share information, tools and knowledge of reforms and essential public health functions in order to empower participants to become effective agents of change.

Specific learning objectives include: - Using health sector reform to achieve health outcomes with a focus on reproductive health outcomes - Learning to apply a multisectoral framework to better achieve health, nutrition, and population outcomes - Understanding the role of the public sector, and the impact of health systems performance on the MDGs - Learning how to apply diagnostic, planning and implementation support tools.

February 15, 2008
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Staff from governments, donor agencies, international organizations, the private sector, PVOs/NGOs, training and research institutions involved in health and government-initiated health sector reforms in World Bank client countries working in the areas of health, public administration or social sector reform.

Task Admin: Michelle Morris
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The course will focus on Human Resource Management issues relevant to the Health Sector in India which will include estimating future HRM needs, HR challenges in rural areas, issues related to satisfaction, motivation and performance, strategic planning for HR and negotiation and conflict resolution, among others.

Objective:
(i) To provide a framework to mid-level government officials in the health sector at the state level, academic institutions and staff of donor agencies to critically assess and manage Human Resource challenges that they encounter. (ii) Capacity building of National Institute of Health and Family Welfare faculty in delivering future HR courses.

Sunila Andrews
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This course will be largely taught by international trainers with the Flagship agenda to
(1) provide the Flagship analytical framework, and
(2) teach the five control knobs (policy tools) and their interactions in designing the reforms. A secondary role of this course will be to use it to train the Indonesian local trainers and let them practice training and facilitation. Besides the core course content, this course will use a local pharmaceutical industry case study to illustrate policy tools interaction and other teaching cases for individual sessions.

Objective
It is expected that this multi-year program will support operational needs of the EASHD AAA program in the health sector in Indonesia. In addition, the local institutions capacity will be strengthened and these would be able to better support medium and long term needs of the health sector.

Mid-level government officials from the Ministry of Health, BAPPENAS, NGOs, day-to-day health managers, academia, and donor representatives.

Shenna Ross
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In no region of the developing world are women equal to men in legal, social and economic rights. Gender gaps are widespread in access to and control of resources, in economic opportunities, in power and political voice. Gender equality is a development objective on its own - it also makes good business sense as it is central to economic growth and sustainable development.
As part of the World Bank’s efforts to support client countries in developing effective PRS’s, the World Bank Institute (WBI) and its partner institutions have developed a learning program on Gender, Health and Poverty for client countries. It will examine the issues and data in eight South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) noting the special concerns of conflict and post-conflict areas in the region.

The objectives for the course are:
a. To increase capacity for promoting gender, health and poverty issues in national poverty reduction strategies and programs and assist countries in achieving the related Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s);
b. to enhance skills for developing gender-sensitive, pro-poor policies and interventions in national programs.

This course will review the analytical base and examine global best practices to better address gender, health and poverty issues in national policies and programs. It will consist of eight modules that address the following topics:

Module 1 - International Policy and Program Environment: The role of PRS’s in articulating national development priorities and acting as the key instrument for development programming; the MDG’s and a framework for action to accelerate progress at the country level; shifting from project to programmatic aid.
Module 2 - Why Gender? Framework for Integrating Gender, Health and Poverty: Basic concepts of gender and the critical linkages between gender, health and poverty; rights and business case; gender analysis techniques and poverty diagnosis for preparing PRS’s.
Module 3 - The Life Cycle Approach to Women’s Health: Critical gender and health links throughout the life cycle including adolescent health; analyze a framework that focuses on how to improve health outcomes (the “Pathways Framework”).
Module 4 - Gender and HIV/AIDS: The feminization of HIV/AIDS; male responsibility; impact on individuals, families and society.
Module 5 - Gender-Based Violence: International instruments and response; prevalence of violence against women and actions to eliminate it.
Module 6 – Cross-Sectoral Implications - Girls’ Education; Energy; Transport. Impact of interventions from sectors other than health. Multi-sectoral approaches for achieving the MDG’s.
Module 7 - Making services work for poor people - Empowering women. Services often fail the poor, particularly poor women – in access, quantity and quality. How to monitor and discipline service providers and influence policymakers. Examples of public-private partnerships and community financing for scaling-up.
Module 8 - Achieving the MDG’s: Integrating Gender and Health into Poverty Reduction Strategies – in diagnosis, program interventions and monitoring and evaluation.

The WBI course is designed for senior and mid-level officials and policy makers working in national governments, national and international NGO’s, and bi-lateral and multi-lateral donor agencies.

To enter the application procedure or to receive more information, please contact
Ms Jo Hindriks -
Tel: +1 (0)202 473 64 25
Fax: +1 (0)202 676 09 61
Email: jhindriks@worldbank.org
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The senior seminar offers an approach from the “Flagship Core Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing” with a special focus on analyzing health sector performance. The three-day, high-level seminar is customized through health sector reform experiences and lessons learned in Turkey and other countries from the ECA region. The seminar will provide all necessary support and supervision for implementation of the three-year Flagship Program on Health Sector Reform and development or customization of other learning programs in Turkey.

This seminar will ensure that Bank programs address Turkey HNP needs, fits with their priorities, and aligns with Bank operations/projects on health sector reform called “health in transition.”

Key public sector stakeholders, health systems senior managers,policy makers and parliamentarians involved in health sector reform, School of Public Health Faculty, multilateral and bilateral donors, bank office specialists.

Shenna Ross
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Shenna Ross
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Workshop to improve capacity and skills of educational planners and managers to conceptualize and analyze the interaction between the epidemic and educational planning and management; providing and developing core competencies in analyzing, designing, and implementing policies that seek to prevent further spread of HIV as well as mitigate the impact of AIDS in the education sector.

civil society, donors, senior policy makers

Nicole M. Fults
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1. Expose participants to potential contribution of health economics to decision making in the health sector. At the end of the course participants can: • Use the economic rationale arguments to determine what government should or should not do • Apply economics to improve allocative efficiency in the health sector • Analyze economic arguments to help improve technical efficiency in the health sector • Explain how economics can help improve equity in the health sector 2. Introduce participants to the language of economics and health sector reform so they can be more effective communicators when working with the Ministry of Finance. By the end of the course participants can: • Correctly use the tools on market failures to justify the role of the public sector • Apply the different dimensions of efficiency to ensure a larger return to investments in the health sector.

Ministry of Health (MOH) staff, Ministry of Planning staff and Ministry of Finance staff working on the health sector, Academicians and technical consultants, Civil society advocates that manage or support policy dialogue, Journalists, International organizations staff.

Michelle Morris
Email: Mmorris1@worldbank.org
Internet: http://info.worldbank.org/etools/wbi_learning/activity.cfm?sch_id=HNP09-01-233

The e-learning program on Health Topics covers e-learning offerings on Health Outcomes and the Poor, Strenghtening the Essential Public Health Functions, Basics of Health Economics. All courses are held online and are intended for Health professionals who need to strengthen their knowledge about health and health economics topics.

Objectives: The objectives for this program are 1. to raise awareness on the intersection of poverty and health 2. to increase the capacity of health professionals working to strengthen the health component of PRSP documents 3. to strengthen the capacity of health professionals on the 12 essential public health functions 4. to increase the capacity of non health economists to understand health economics concepts and topics.

Health Professionals, Academics, Ministry of Health technical personnel.

Shenna Ross
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