Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program
The Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program trains nursing and midwifery professionals and educators to strengthen their countries’ health systems and better manage population health.
Certificate Program
The Harvard Global Public Health for Nurse Leaders Certificate program is designed for national-level chief nurses, midwives, regulators, professional nursing and midwifery association executives, and academic deans and faculty from around the world.
- Participants will attain public health and leadership competencies in:
- Public health policy and strategic planning
- Public health, primary health care, population health, resource and fiscal management
- Statistical analyses used in public health studies and scientific publications, and more
We have designed the Harvard Certificate in Global Public Health for Nurse Leaders to give nurses and midwives the strategies and tools needed to strengthen health systems, manage population health, and reform regulations. Participants will be prepared to determine and apply solutions and lead change.
Stephanie L. Ferguson, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director, Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program
The Health Systems Strengthening course that I teach . . . covers how to build a coalition to translate a policy innovation into practice, how to communicate with and engage stakeholders, and what the role of the leader is in introducing a strategic change in a health system.
Rifat Atun, MBBS, MBA, DIC, FRCGP, FFPH, FRCP, Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Faculty Chair of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program, core faculty member in the Harvard Global Public Health for Nurse Leaders Certificate Program.
Nurses and midwives are crucial for effective and trusted contact tracing, resilience in health care, and effective promotion of health lifestyles . . . This certificate program will develop their knowledge and skills in all three areas.
David L. Heymann, MD, CBE, Professor, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The Harvard Global Health for Nurse Leaders Certificate Program is dynamic and intense but also life changing. The certificate program will advance your nursing and midwifery career in health policy and management, and teach you how to strategically strengthen health systems, manage population health, and reform policies and regulations.
The Harvard Global Public Health for Nurse Leaders Certificate Program Inaugural Class of 2022-2023