Leadership Development to Improve Health Outcomes For All
“This is program is highly beneficial as it brings awareness, validation and suggestions in doing this difficult, changing work. I greatly recommend this program to everyone who’s seriously curious about what they can do in eradicating health disparities.”— Yolanda Frazier, Elevance Health
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Leadership Development to Improve Health Outcomes For All
Traditional medical education lacks training on how the healthcare system is influenced by racism and how outdated policies perpetuate disparities. This program will teach you how to confront and remediate unfair practices and advance health equity in your community or practice.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $3,100.00
Program Overview
ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY IN YOUR COMMUNITY OR PRACTICE
Develop and refine your leadership skills through a health equity lens in this online program. You’ll examine how racism and unconscious assumptions, structural faults in the health care system, and avoidable differences in the drivers of health shape outcomes—and how leaders can sustain action over the long term. In particular, you will:
- Examine how policies, incentives, and resource allocation can disadvantage populations made most vulnerable—and learn to center their needs in decisions
- Strengthen your ability to lead equity-centered conversations using shared values and plain language (not jargon) to align stakeholders across roles and sectors
- Analyze factors impacting patients and health care providers—identity, “minority tax,” imposter syndrome, unconscious assumptions, work-life integration, and secondary stress—through a systems lens, using practical equity decision questions to surface benefits and burdens
Faculty includes Dr. Joan Reede, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. David Williams, a globally recognized expert on social influences on health, along with other leading clinicians and scholars. They will lead skill-based sessions, helping you develop the leadership tools to identify and reform biased policies, foster inclusive environments, and champion health equity. Because health equity isn’t a niche issue—it’s an “everybody conversation.”
After you complete this dynamic leadership development program, you will:
- Understand how you fit into your organization’s staffing and know how to identify allies, mentors, and partners who can help you transform your organization from within
- Have a deep understanding of the bias that negatively impacts health equity and its history in the American healthcare system
- Be empowered to facilitate crucial conversations around health equity that can affect change in your organization and community
Objectives & Highlights
- Deepen your knowledge of health equity to include social determinants and root causes—and how historical factors and policy agendas shape power and produce unfair gaps
- Learn how to address complex topics like microaggressions, tokenism, the “Diversity Tax,” and more to identify specific, tangible opportunities to operationalize strategies to advance health equity in your work or practice
- Apply innovative leadership frameworks—adaptive, authentic, and transformational—to make substantial and lasting change in an organization
- Strengthen your change-management toolkit: analyze major drivers of organizational change, communicate equity using shared values across sectors, and make managerial decisions informed by data and metrics
- Examine personal and professional challenges of sustaining this work—work/life integration, leadership responsibilities, and career aspirations
- Develop leadership skills for creating positive change in your organization’s policies, practices, and delivery of health care—and for managing resistance to change
- Gain actionable steps to make a collective impact by centering those with the worst outcomes, engaging community partners, and building trusted external partnerships
- Enjoy dynamic and interactive sessions in a personal environment with expert faculty
- Foster personal and organizational growth through small-group discussions with like-minded peers across the health care system
- Build meaningful relationships with a community of colleagues to sustain your journey beyond the course
Certificate of Specialization
Advance your Career with a Certificate of Specialization
This program contributes to the 3-program Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization. Click here for more information.
Learn from Harvard Experts
Interact live with Harvard’s esteemed faculty, experts in sectors like academia, healthcare, policy, and equity research. Gain practical insights and cutting-edge knowledge as these leaders share their experiences and guide you through enhancing your leadership skills with a focus on health equity.