“The class completely changed my life and without each and every one of you, I would not be able to do the work that I am doing here in Gulu [Uganda].”
—Tae Kurosu, BUSPH Student in July 2006 course
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Leading Organizations to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals for Health
Leadership Development Program with Boston University School of Public Health
MSH’s Leadership Development Programdevelops the skills and competencies of managers to work with their teams on specific challenges facing them in their health services organizations. These challenges relate to improving internal management systems and processes and health service delivery.
In July 2006, MSH and the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) adapted the program to be offered as an eight-credit, four-week course as part of BUSPH’s Summer Institute in International Health. In July 2007, the program was again offered to 12 participants including international health managers from different countries and matriculated BUSPH MPH students.
The jointly offered BUSPH and MSH course -- “Leading Organizations to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals for Health”—targets international public health managers as well as U.S. public health students. These participants learn in an experiential way the leadership practices, competencies, and tools needed to lead and manage teams and organizations to face challenges and achieve results. During the course, teams linked virtually with health managers from three developing countries, discussed challenges, applied the MSH Challenge Model, and prepared action plans that the local teams may use to address particular HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, child health and other challenges.
Participant evaluations of the 2006 course ranked it second out of 36 summer courses, and in 2007 the program tied for first place. 100% of the students who attended in 2007 reported that they would “definitely” recommend the course to a friend. It also received an excellence in teaching award from the Dean of BUSPH. MSH is scheduled to offer the course again from July 7 – August 1, 2008.
Jowad Kezaala, the Secretary General of the Inter Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU), a large faith based health services organization in Uganda, and a student in the July 2007 course, said the following about the learning program:
“It is now a month since I and Allan Mugisha (IRCU Grants Officer) came back from attending the "Leading Organizations to Achieve Millennium Development Goals" course in Boston University, USA. It is my pleasure to report that both of us have tangibly benefited from the course in our work at IRCU. The course has been an eye opener in many ways. It introduced us to major public health issues affecting the developing world, giving us a deeper understanding of the millennium development goals for health. We were able to appreciate the direct linkages between management and leadership, and properly discern the major practices thereof. As for myself it is during this course that, for the first time, I clarified my vision and mission in life and set for myself a clear, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time bound objective the achievement of which would lead me to effectively execute my mission and attain my vision as a leader, which is directly transferable to my work at IRCU.”
BUSPH and MSH course Leading Organizations to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals for Health” Flyer- (PDF 379KB)
