Center for Leadership and Management

Youth leader in South Africa. Photo by Carmen Urdaneta.

Through years of experience working with individuals and organizations around the world, MSH has learned that good leadership and effective management systems are integral elements in leading organizations to face complex challenges and produce sustainable results.

In this era of rapid change, health sector reform, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and other public health and human resource problems, strengthening and developing the leadership skills and competencies of managers in the health services organizations is critically important.

The Center for Leadership and Management (CLM) serves as the hub for MSH’s activities and expertise in the areas of leadership development, human capacity development, health financing and financial management, health systems strengthening, and health information systems.

CLM contributes to MSH’s commitment to improve health and save lives by improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of health services. Our approach is to work with

  • managers at all levels to strengthen management systems including planning, human resource management, financial management, and information systems;
  • individual organizations to improve the capabilities of their managers to lead and inspire teams to achieve results;
  • national program managers to develop overall human and organizational capacity to coordinate multisectoral strategies for health outcomes; and
  • innovative electronic technologies to reinforce our direct technical assistance in organizational development, leadership and management, and network management worldwide.