Master of Global Health Leadership & Practice
Master of Global Health Leadership & Practice
Empowering Leaders for Global Health Transformation
Designed for early to mid-career professionals across the globe, this Master’s programme cultivates the leadership acumen needed to excel in healthcare and related fields. Whether you work in non-profit or for-profit healthcare, NGOs, government, pharmaceuticals, or other sectors influencing public health, this programme is your pathway to greater leadership impact.
Who Should Apply?
This programme is tailored for early to mid-level professionals ready to step into significant leadership roles within:
- Healthcare: Hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical companies
- Public Health: NGOs, non-profits, government agencies, foundations
- Beyond: Entrepreneurial ventures and other settings impacting health
What You Will Learn
- Leadership theory and practice in healthcare
- Strategic management and decision-making
- Change management and innovation
Global health policy and advocacy - Communication and collaboration skills
- Ethical leadership and cultural competence
Course Modules
This module focuses on individual and team-based leadership development.
Participants will explore organisational and leadership theory to understand organisational dynamics, culture and politics, policy and agenda setting.
Understand the relationship between leaders and followers, and develop the knowledge and skill to engage across and within groups.
Diagnose helpful and unhelpful behaviour patterns in teams, and identify leadership styles, strategies and approaches to improve personal capabilities in addressing challenges and opportunities.
Use best practices in giving and delivering feedback, work conflict, and difficult conversations to enhance team performance.
Develop the crucial qualities, actions, and approaches necessary to be a successful leader and explore the issues healthcare leaders face.
Utilising case studies, self-exploration, personal insight and feedback, participants will identify opportunities for improvement, building capacity both within themselves and those they lead.
This module focuses on developing systems thinking skills that enable leaders and managers to work with others and respond proactively to the rapidly changing, complex, continuously evolving healthcare field.
Healthcare leaders have the formidable and immediate challenge of creating both short- and long-term strategies to deal with complex problems whose resolution requires holistic approaches and sophisticated thinking.Â
Building on the theory and practices of module MGH701, students will continue to develop their leadership skills and explore general systems thinking.Â
Understanding the sets of interconnected systems, organisational systems, and the dynamic complex social systems that drive human behaviour and shape organisational culture and climate.
Leading successful change is a necessity in today’s dynamic operating environments.
This module explores change from a holistic perspective and how to lead and implement it effectively in any organisational context.
The module is focused on underpinning theories of change management.
Candidates will develop a clear understanding of the process of effective change management.
Healthcare systems are rapidly moving toward adopting technology with the digitisation of health records, access to big data and storage in the cloud, advanced software, and mobile applications technology.
This transformation mandates that analytics will be a required competency for health leaders. New decision-making capabilities based on science and real-world information, the different uses of data analytics to inform decisions and an understanding of the impact of risk and uncertainty in various scenarios will be required.Â
This module equips present and future health leaders with the necessary understanding of analytics and risk as a cornerstone of their 21st-century operations and strategy.
This module will explore the discipline of project management from a global healthcare perspective.
Covering the skills required to successfully lead & manage projects in complex organisational systems and environments; how to successfully deliver a project from identifying stakeholders and developing and gaining consensus on requirements to constructing a project plan.
It also covers in detail the skills required to successfully manage project stakeholders and team members.
What is creativity and why is it important in today’s health & healthcare operating contexts?
This module explores problem solving innovation & creativity from a healthcare perspective and the standpoint that to be an effective leader in a complex system requires skills in ideation and translating the intangible and intractable into something tangible and of value to organisations.
This module is designed to engage the candidate in Level 7 research activities.
The module will equip the candidate with the skills necessary to undertake a research project. As a core module of the course, this module will cover what it means to become a knowledge researcher and develop an understanding of different scientific ways to approach problems.
Content includes: Philosophy of science, Preparing a research proposal, Research methodologies and methods, Rigour in research design, Data collection & analysis methods.
This capstone project requires and enables candidates to produce a comprehensive integrative piece of work incorporating the developed knowledge and skills from the programme into a final dissertation (20,000 words).
Focusing on blending theory with practice in a specific work or professional context. An in-depth investigation of a research problem rooted in theoretical frameworks and concepts.
Overview: Master in Global Health Leadership & Practice Programme
The Master of Global Health Leadership & Practice programme is aimed at early to mid-level professionals anywhere in the world, locally, nationally, or internationally, who seek the skills to assume new or more significant leadership roles in healthcare or related environments. Including non-profit and for-profit health care settings, NGOs, non-profit organisations, pharma, government agencies, ministries of health, foundations, and others working within the health field, including entrepreneurs and individuals working in non-traditional settings affecting the health of the public.Â
Who this programme is designed for
The Master of Global Health Leadership & Practice programme is ideal for professionals who strive to become excellent managers and changemakers within global healthcare settings.
What you will learn
This Masters’s programme will provide the candidate with the relevant skills and competencies to lead self and others, developing the core leadership skills required to take on a range of leadership roles and lead practice changes. This course will support candidates, both personally and professionally, to develop their knowledge and understanding of leadership within the context of healthcare, preparing them to lead and operate effectively in a 21st-century healthcare landscape fuelled by change, complexity, innovation and technology. Designed to offer flexible learning, this course is relevant to candidates across local, national and international healthcare settings. It is delivered by a team with leadership roles in international practice settings and educational contexts.
Tuition €9,000 (Application Fee €85)
- MQF/EQF: 7
- Accreditation: Malta Further and Higher Education Authority
- Learning Hours: 2250
- Credits: 90 ECTS
- Course Delivery: Online
- Programme Length: 36 Months Part Time - 24 Months Full Time
- Qualification: Master of Global Health Leadership & Practice
- Open enrolment. Start anytime.
Entry Requirements
- A relevant MQF/EQF L6 degree or equivalent, work in a health/social care or other professional area.
- An MQF/EQF L5 full qualification or alternative, 3 years work in either a health/social care or other professional area.
- Interview with the course coordinator or nominee. Alternative Entry pathway.
- A minimum of seven years’ full-time professional work experience in a health/social care or other professional area.
- Provide a CV demonstrating relevant professional work experience.
- Attend an interview with the course coordinator or nominee.
Non-native English Speaking Applicants:
If English is not your first language you must have an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of 7 or more. Exemptions of the IELTS are available for students holding a qualification at MQF Level 5 or higher from institutions who hold courses in English e.g. a UK, US qualification. Aged 25 years or over at the start of the course
Modules
REQUIRED: MGH701, MGH702, MGH703, MGH707, MGH708
Faculty
Dr. Nicholas Zuber
Critical Care Paramedic, Doctor of Emergency and Disaster Management
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