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Global Health Leadership Forum

An International Program to Rethink
Health Policy and Health Systems Change

Curriculum

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Curriculum from 2008 Session

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
JANUARY 6-12, 2008

Sunday, January 6, 2008 - Harbor Court Hotel
165 Steuart Street, near Mission and Embarcadero

6:00PM - 8:00PM
Reception and welcome: Harbor Court Hotel lobby

Monday, January 7, 2008 - UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, Fisher Banquet Room
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA

8:15AM
Bus for the meeting leaves in front of the Harbor Court Hotel

8:30AM - 9:00AM
Breakfast at meeting site

INTRODUCTORY SESSION

9:00AM - 10:30AM
Welcome and introductions:

10:30AM - 10:45AM
Break

HEALTH SYSTEMS: TRENDS, CHALLENGES, SUCCESSES AND PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

10:45AM - 12:15PM
Richard Saltman, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia and Director of the European Observatory based in Madrid
European health systems and policies - the most exemplary components: what seems to be working and why?

12:30PM - 1:45PM
Lunch
Includes 25 minute briefing and discussion of the US health care system (in context of Saltman’s framework) and California health coverage initiative, Richard Scheffler

2:00PM - 3:00PM
Break into discussion groups: In the areas of financing/cost, access, or health care provision/structure, each participant explains at least one key challenge and then a related successful characteristic/program of his country’s health care system that others might wish to emulate and why. (Discussion groups will include faculty: Richard Saltman, Steve Shortell, Richard Scheffler, Meg Kellogg, Alex Preker who will participate in the discussions)

3:00PM - 3:15PM
Break

3:15PM - 4:15PM
Feedback from each group’s reporter to full group: successful characteristics: what works and why. Group discussion.

4:15PM - 4:45PM
Participant Project

4:45PM - 5:15PM
Participant learnings from the day. Per participant suggestions in previous program cycles, at the end of each day a participant will be asked to give initial reactions/comments on the lessons learned that day and/or provide discussion questions for the group. Group discussion will follow.

5:15PM - 6:30PM
Bus back and free time to get ready for gala dinner

Pre-dinner session and festive welcome dinner
Boulevard Restaurant
One Mission Street at Steuart. Turn right out of hotel’s front door and proceed a few buildings down to the corner.

6:30PM - 7:00PM
Reception

7:00PM - 7:45PM
Ian Morrison, Ph.D., Health Advisory Panel Chair, Institute for the Future; and Founding Partner, Strategic Health Perspectives: The future of global health care: the quest for value

7:45PM - 9:30PM
Dinner

Tuesday, January 8, 2008 - UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, Fisher Banquet Room
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA

QUALITY AND COST EFFECTIVENESS IN CARE DELIVERY

8:15AM
Bus for the meeting leaves from in front of the Harbor Court Hotel

8:30AM - 9:00AM
Breakfast (at meeting site)

9:00AM - 10:30AM
Steve Shortell: Improving quality around the globe. Includes small group case discussion: please review one page assignment and one page "quality challenges" in advance

10:30AM - 10:45AM
Break

10:45AM - 11:45AM
Dean Jamison, Cost-effectiveness analysis to inform health policy: are there any surprises left?

11:45AM - 12:00PM
Break

12:00PM - 1:15PM
Lunch discussion roundtables:

1:30PM - 2:30PM
Leonard Schaeffer, Previous chairman of Wellpoint, Inc. and Current Chairman, Surgical Care Affiliates and Senior Advisor, TPG: The Leadership Journey (Please be sure to read the case study in advance)

2:30PM - 3:00PM
Participant projects, Iskra: Strategic planning for a primary care service

3:00PM - 3:15PM
Break

3:15PM - 5:15PM
Jodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., J.D.: Associate Professor of Bioethics, Joint Medical Program, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley: Ethical challenges inherent in health practices and policies (Note: Jodi wants to work on YOUR issues, and we will request your input in advance to create case studies)

5:15PM - 5:45PM
Participant comments

7:30PM
Optional Chinese Dinner: Shanghai 1930, 133 Steuart St., San Francisco

Wednesday, January 9, 2008 - Kaiser Permanente and University of California, Berkeley

7:30AM
Bus leaves in front of Harbor Court Hotel. Breakfast will be served at Kaiser Permanente.

FIELD TRIP
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland

8:00AM - 12:00PM
Content of session:
Molly Porter: Presentation of the Kaiser Permanente model and its secrets of success

Andy Wiesenthal, M.D., Associate Executive Director, The Permanente Foundation: KP HealthConnect, KP’s innovative health information system

Paul Wallace, M.D.: Medical Director for Health and Productivity Management Programs, The Permanente Foundation: KP’s care management programs

12:00PM - 1:15PM
Luncheon discussion with CEO and Chairman of the Board, George Halvorson

1:15PM - 2:15PM
(Optional) UC Berkeley Campus Stroll and souvenir shopping with Professor Scheffler and Shortell or free time

2:15PM
Haas Business School, Helzel Boardroom, UC Berkeley

EVIDENCE-BASED MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH POLICY AND PROGRAMS

Welcome from Whitney Hischier, Director of Executive Education Programs, Haas Business School

A workshop on decision-effectiveness: the evaluation of policies, programs, and the quality of published research:

Tom Rundall, Teh-Wei Hu and Simone Buitendijk

2:15PM - 3:00PM
Part I: Tom Rundall, Ph.D., Henry J. Kaiser Professor of Organized Health Systems, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley: The Concepts of evidence-based management

3:00PM - 4:00PM
Part II: Simone Buitendijk, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., AHLF Alumna and Head, Division of Child Health, TNO Institute of Applied Science, Netherlands: How to judge the quality of published research theory and group practice session (Note: Reading the November 2005 Pediatrics article in advance is key to this session.)

4:00PM - 4:15PM
Break

4:15PM - 5:15PM
Part III: Putting it all together
Tei Weh Hu, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley: Case Study of Health Care Financing Reform in Hong Kong

5:15PM - 5:45PM
Participant comments (Iskra kicks off) and discussion of evaluation challenges that participants have successfully met or need advice on

5:45PM - 6:15PM
Group photo

6:15PM
Second annual dinner party at AHLF alumna Michele Schwartz’s home in Berkeley (Note: if you will not be attending the dinner, please tell staff by Monday night, January 9.)

Thursday, January 10, 2008 - UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, Fisher Banquet Room
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco

Bus for the meeting leaves from in front of the Harbor Court Hotel at 8:00AM

8:15AM - 8:45AM
Breakfast

LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP

8:45AM - 10:30AM, 10:45AM - 12:30PM
Jenny Chatman, Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management, Haas School of Business

12:30PM - 1:45PM
Lunch discussion roundtables:

CONSUMERS

2:00PM - 2:40PM
Richard Scheffler: Managed consumerism: what is selling/what is working

2:40PM - 3:00PM
Group discussion of applications and consumerism innovations/movements in other countries

3:00PM - 3:15PM
Break

3:15PM - 4:00PM
Donald Kemper, AHLF alumnus and Chairman and CEO, Healthwise: The Ix Solution: How Information Therapy Can Deflect the Pending Crises in Health Care

4:00PM - 5:00PM
Participant projects: Shelly: Tips for communicating with consumers

5:00PM - 5:30PM
Participant comments (Sonia kicks off)

Friday, January 11, 2008, UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, Fisher Banquet Room
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco

7:45AM
Bus for the meeting leaves in front of the Harbor Court Hotel

8:00AM - 8:30AM
Breakfast

TECHNOLOGY and INFECTIOUS DISEASE

8:30AM - 9:30AM
Molly Coye, CEO, The Health Technology Center: The future of technology: what you should be planning for

9:30AM - 9:45AM
Break

9:45AM - 10:45AM
Sir Richard Feachem: Fighting the Great Pandemics: The Global Fund and Beyond: The three biggest issues for the 21st century

10:45AM - 11:00AM
Break

WORKSHOP ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREPAREDNESS AND RELATED SURGE PLANNING

11:00AM - 12:00PM
Tomas Aragon, M.D., Dr. P.H., Executive Director and Medical Epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. (Note: due to his expertise and excellent training skills, Dr. Aragon is contracted by the state of California to provide the State’s preparedness training.): Infectious disease and preparedness: key concepts and terms

12:00PM - 1:15PM
Lunch discussion roundtables:

ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

1:30PM - 2:30PM
Tomas Aragon: Case study on surge planning; small group breakouts

2:30PM - 2:45PM
Break

KEYS TO BUYING HEALTH CARE -- PURCHASING, TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING/INTEGRATING CARE AND INSURANCE ISSUES (through Saturday)

2:45PM - 4:00PM
The Challenges and Successes in Mental Health Coverage and Delivery. A Panel discussion with: WHO European Mental Health Director Matthijs Muijen, AHLF Participant Sonia Chehill, M.D., or Stan Kutcher, M.D., University of Dalhousie, Canada, and Richard Scheffler

4:00PM - 5:00PM
Participant project: Sonia, Mental health challenges in Trinidad; Participant project: Juan Carlos: Integration of hospital and ambulatory care

5:00PM - 5:30PM
Participant comments (Javier kicks off)

7:30PM
Optional Chinese banquet (prior sign up)

Saturday, January 12, 2008 - UCSF Mission Bay Community Center, Fisher Banquet Room
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA

7:30AM
Bus for the meeting leaves from in front of the Harbor Court Hotel

Continued: KEYS TO BUYING HEALTH CARE -- PURCHASING, TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING/INTEGRATING CARE AND INSURANCE ISSUES

8:00AM - 8:30AM
Breakfast

8:30AM - 9:15AM
Arnold Milstein, M.D., Medical Director, Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and Mercer, National Health Care Thought Leader: Outswimming the shark - Innovative efforts by public and private purchasers in the US to improve the affordability and quality of health care benefits

9:15AM - 9:45AM
Group discussion of applications and innovative purchasing strategies in other countries

9:45AM - 10:00AM
Break

10:00AM - 11:30AM
Hal Luft, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF: Techniques in managed care, payment and budgeting: which work, which have not, and innovations for the future. Includes group breakout sessions in which participants explore the kinds of techniques that might be used for their particular issues

11:45AM - 12:15PM
Participant project: Javier Murillo

12:15PM - 1:15PM
Lunch discussion round tables:

1:15PM - 1:30PM
Break

1:30PM - 2:30PM
Neelam Sehkri, WHO and Consultant, Healthcare Redesign Group and Alex Preker, World Bank: An Update on Private Health Insurance in Developing Countries (Complementary copies of the new World Bank book "Voluntary health insurance in developing countries" will be distributed)

2:30PM - 3:15PM
Philip Musgrove, International Editor, Health Affairs Journal: Financial protection vs. cost-effectiveness; overview and group discussion of catastrophic expanse and the role of insurance

3:15PM - 3:30PM
Break

3:45PM - 4:30PM
Alex Preker, World Bank: Scaling human resources in healthcare: recent findings

4:30PM - 5:30PM
Steve Shortell and Jim Rice: Maximizing your success: Implementation Issues and Strategies

5:30PM - 6:15PM
Participant comments on today (BUPA exec kicks off), feedback session on the total week and suggestions for June session (Shelly kicks off)

8:00PM
Festive dinner (including a graduation ceremony for those completing the program)
Town Hall Restaurant
342 Howard Street

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