Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Leadership & Practice

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

Are you ready to take on the complex challenges of global health and lead transformative change?

Our Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Leadership and Practice equips you with the strategic thinking, change management expertise, and analytical skills needed to thrive in today’s dynamic healthcare landscape.

Programme Highlights:

Develop Systems Thinking: Master the art of systems thinking to understand the interconnectedness of healthcare systems and make informed decisions in complex environments.

Lead Change Effectively: Learn proven change management methodologies to successfully navigate and implement change initiatives within healthcare organizations.

Harness Data Analytics: Gain the analytical skills to leverage data, mitigate risks, and make evidence-based decisions in an increasingly digital healthcare world.

Master Project Management: Acquire the tools and techniques to plan, execute, and deliver successful projects that drive positive change in global health and healthcare settings

Foster Innovation: Cultivate creative problem-solving and innovative thinking to address the unique challenges of healthcare and create lasting solutions

A Comprehensive Curriculum: Our programme is designed to develop well-rounded leaders who can tackle the multifaceted challenges of the global health sector.

Through a combination of theoretical learning and practical application, you’ll gain the following skills:

Strategic Leadership: Understand the broader context of healthcare systems and develop strategies to address systemic issues.

Change Management: Lead and implement change initiatives with confidence, minimizing disruption and maximizing positive outcomes.

Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyze health data, identify trends, and use insights to inform strategic choices.

Project Management: Plan, execute, and manage complex healthcare projects from inception to completion.
Innovation: Foster a culture of innovation and develop creative solutions to healthcare problems.

Your Path to Leadership: Whether you aspire to lead healthcare organizations, manage global health programs, or drive innovation in the healthcare sector, our postgraduate diploma provides the comprehensive foundation you need to excel.

Graduates of this program are prepared to take on leadership roles in a wide range of healthcare settings, including:

Hospitals and healthcare systems
Government health agencies
Non-profit organizations
Global health initiatives
Research institutions
Consulting firms

Take the Next Step:

Join us and become a catalyst for positive change in the global health arena & Apply now to the Postgraduate Diploma in Global Health Leadership and Practice.

PROGRAMME MODULES

MGH701 - Leading Self & Others

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.

Module Specifications

MGH702 - Systems Thinking for Leaders

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.

Building on the theory and practices of module MGH701, students will continue to develop their leadership skills and explore general systems thinking.

Understanding the sets of interconnected systems, organisational systems, and the dynamic complex social systems that drive human behaviour and shape organisational culture and climate.

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MGH703 - Leading Change

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, as well as underpinning theories of change management.

Students will develop a clear understanding of the process of effective change management.

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MGH704 - Analytics & Risk in Healthcare

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.

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.

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MGH705 - Project Management for Global Health & Healthcare

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.

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MGH706 - Problem Solving & Innovative Thinking in Healthcare

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.

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