Programs for Individuals
Strengthen your expertise and build new capabilities to address pressing health care and public health challenges. Learn from industry experts and esteemed Harvard faculty and join a global community of peers driven to creating a healthier world.
This program empowers participants with the skills and knowledge needed to drive impactful change in the health sector worldwide, blending cutting-edge public health insights with practical leadership strategies.
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- Global Public Health Leadership Program
December 18, 2024 – June 18, 2025
Health care leaders and professionals want to undertake improvement projects in their practice or organization, and many don’t know where to begin, or how to analyze and properly gauge their successes. Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation will use a real case study to take participants through the journey of identifying, planning, measuring, and creating process changes that will lead to results.
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- Health Care Quality Improvement: From Design to Implementation
January 6 – 16, 2025
This program brings together chairs of major clinical departments in teaching hospitals for intensive and systematic study of the critical leadership and management issues facing chairs, their departments, and teaching hospitals
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- Program for Chairs of Clinical Services
January 19 – 31, 2025 - Program for Chairs of Clinical Services
January 25, 2026 – February 6, 2026
This program aims to unveil the core principles of responsible AI, the capabilities of Large Language Models and Generative AI, and their profound implications for health care, emphasizing ethical considerations and safety measures.
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- Responsible AI for Health Care: Concepts and Applications
February 4 – 7, 2025
Increase your competence as a physician leader in the critical management areas of navigating conflict, providing feedback, and skillfully approaching negotiations.
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- Conflict, Feedback, and Negotiation in Health Care
February 18 – 20, 2025
Develop the management and leadership skills you need to bridge the gap between environmental health and safety goals and organizational objectives. You will gain the skills to integrate a culture of safety and sustainability into your organization.
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- Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals
March 10 – 13, 2025 - Management and Leadership Skills for EHS Professionals
September 8 – 12, 2025
Increase your financial literacy as a high-level health care stakeholder. In this course, you will learn financial management and control, and how to interact more effectively with finance personnel.
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- Financial Management in Health Care for Non-Financial Managers
March 18 – 20, 2025
By helping researchers improve their clinical research skills in a highly interactive environment, PPCR promotes personal and professional growth and helps participants become more effective in their work.
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- Principles and Practice of Clinical Research
March 27, 2025 – December 11, 2025 - PPCR 3-Day Advanced Statistical Workshop
July 28 – 30, 2025 - PPCR Research Manuscript Writing Workshop
July 31, 2025 – August 1, 2025 - PPCR 5-Day Immersion Course
November 19 – 23, 2025
This program will introduce you to theoretical aspects of learning and the principles of effective teaching, focusing on novel methods to enhance long-term retention and learning. From understanding the basics of neuroplasticity, to the preparation for a Socratic discussion, this 12-week program will enhance your teaching effectiveness.
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- Transforming Health Care Education: The Science of Learning and Art of Teaching
April 1, 2025 – June 24, 2025
This program will put you on the path towards attaining a board position in health care and related industries. You will gain the competencies you need to succeed at being a first-rate board member, prepare for the challenges you will face, and gain direction, tools, and approaches for attaining a seat on a board of directors.
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- Women on Boards: Getting On and Adding Value
May 1 – 2, 2025
This management and leadership development program is designed to improve your skills and increase your knowledge, preparing you to tackle complex challenges, comprehend cost analysis, drive change, and effectively manage health care departments and divisions.
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- Health Care Leadership Intensive for Managers
May 5 – 9, 2025
Innovation with AI in Health Care will help leaders of health care organizations develop the skills needed to realize the value of artificial intelligence in health care and advance their careers through demonstrating leadership in digital transformation of health care. It also brings together a diverse community of leaders from the technical, clinical, and business worlds.
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- Innovation with AI in Health Care
May 6 – 9, 2025
Master essential leadership skills to influence stakeholders, solve complex challenges, and navigate the evolving health care landscape. This program empowers current and emerging executives to lead with vision and drive transformative change.
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- Health Care Leadership for Emerging Executives
May 14 – 16, 2025
This leadership development program focused on women enhances your skills to lead complex healthcare organizations, bridging gaps in your understanding and strategies, and preparing you for career advancement.
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- Emerging Women Executives in Health Care
June 3 – 6, 2025
This executive education program equips clinicians and executives with the cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills needed to ensure AI solutions are implemented successfully in clinical practice.
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- Implementing Health Care AI into Clinical Practice
June 9 – 12, 2025
This applied program explores the needs of diverse stakeholders to ensure laboratories are safe, free of hazards, ergonomically sound, and environmentally friendly. Guided laboratory tours ensure you leave the course able to apply what you learned to your organization’s facilities and projects.
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- Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations
June 9 – 13, 2025
Improve employee health, safety, and security with applied industrial hygiene skills. You will benefit from a comprehensive introduction to industrial hygiene and gain skills to protect employees from workplace environmental hazards.
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- Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene
July 7 – 11, 2025
Prepare to test and certify systems containing HEPA filtration and gas adsorption systems. Learn to operate testing equipment unique to these activities and gain an understanding of regulations associated with nuclear air- and gas-cleaning activities.
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- In-Place Filter Testing Workshop
July 21 – 25, 2025
This program brings together industry experts, government professionals, and renowned academic faculty in radiation protection and emergency management to provide you with skills and strategies to effectively plan for and respond to radiological emergencies at the federal, state, local, or individual facility level.
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- Radiological Emergency Management
August 4 – 8, 2025
This program will provide state-of-the-science knowledge on designing effective risk communication messages to improve communication, increase trust in your organization, reduce public anxiety about an issue, and help key stakeholders make better decisions.
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- Applied Risk Communication for the 21st Century
September 16 – 19, 2025
This program brings together physicians in administrative positions in academic medical centers, who lead a clinical division and report directly to the chair of their department, for intensive and systematic study of the critical leadership and management issues facing academic medical centers.
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- Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Medical Centers
October 5 – 17, 2025
The importance of reducing the mental health care gap has never been more critical. The current reality of limited financial resources, stigma associated with mental health problems, and too few professionals to support the vast mental health needs of the population means that professionals and organizations have an obligation to innovate mental health care delivery
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- Mental Health Leadership: Transformation Through Innovation
November 17 – 20, 2025
Traditional medical education lacks training on how the health care 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.
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- Leadership Development to Advance Equity in Health Care
November 18 – 21, 2025
You will learn to design, implement, and analyze health outcomes studies, use outcomes research data for clinical decision making, health care planning, and technology development, and understand the statistical methods used in this research.
Learn directly from one of Harvard’s experts on benefit-cost analysis, who will teach you the advantages and limitations of this method, improving your ability to evaluate, interpret, and use the results.
This program provides focused training in leadership and management, focused on the clinical and operational challenges senior physicians face as executives. By participating in this program, physicians from around the world will develop skills to be more effective and efficient institutional leaders.
This practical course will teach participants how to incorporate sustainability and design thinking methodologies in their practice of organizational leadership. The skills gained will result in a clear and measurable impact on your organization’s sustainability portfolio in a complex and ever-changing ecosystem.
This program drives meaningful growth in project leadership abilities for clinicians, administrators and operations professionals in health care settings. It covers project leadership, assessment, planning, initiation, execution, quality control, team-building, management, conflict resolution and communication with stakeholders.