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Globalizing health administration education

By Blair Gifford, PhD posted 12-04-2009 12:24

  
In most countries there are few, if any, educated health administation professionals.  For example, hospitals are typically run by clinicians who rotate annually into the administrative position while still seeing patients on a part-time basis.  These situations beg for health management professionals and the development of local health administration education.

I'm involved in numerous projects and programs (e.g., China, Ethiopia, Haiti) to globalize health administration education into developing and transitional nations.  I'm curious to find out who else might be doing the same and what we might be able to learn from one another about these experiences. 
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Leah Vriesman, PhD, MHA, MBA
05-05-2010 13:42

Blair
I am going to Ulm/Neu Ulm, Bavaria to teach in a healthcare MBA program there that is considered cutting edge in Germany. The majority of students are physicians, addressing the need of better trained folks to lead German healthcare institutions as well. In September, I'll be heading to Tanzania for a week to talk to a university there about the US health system as well and lessons learned (there are of course a lot!)
I write this because I fully agree - the interest in educating smart people in true healthcare management principles is growing quickly in the rest of the world.
I find torn between this topic being here or under the Global Healthcare network as they are overlapping. The global health network seems to include both the concept of global public health leadership and stewardship, but also comparative health systems and education. I was bummed to see that both network meetings were at the same time on June 3rd.
Leah Vriesman