Objectifs du programme

The course will be structured to achieve 4 objectives:

• Culture:
  Learn about each other’s cultures and business practices
• Healthcare System:
  Understand both countries healthcare systems and challenges
• COVID-19 Impact:
  Evaluate COVID-19’s impact on local health systems and on the business of healthcare. Evaluate each countries response, current status and preparedness;and interrogate how innovation could help address the constraints of health systems iron triangle on both countries COVID-19 responses
• Healthcare Challenge:
  Collaborate in small groups to resolve a contemporary healthcare challenge – epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response, drawing on the experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic in both countries.

Participants cibles

This programme is targeted towards UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School students and SBS students currently enrolled for the MBA Healthcare Management programme at No cost.

Exécution du programme

Each class will consist of 4 elements:

• SBS lecture
• UNC lecture
• Guest Speaker, and
• Student Excercise

Course Outline

Session 1: (a) Intro to the course, objectives, schedule, process.  (b) Introduction to global health, Infectious disease epidemiology, COVID-19. (c) Intro to the projects, project model, project teams. (d) intro to culture active

Session 2: Culture Active and Cultural Learning Experience

Session 3: (a) Health system politics, economics and policy-making. (b) The Health system in the US and in Kenya

Session 4: Comparative health system challenges and opportunities

Session 5: Health systems and Innovation: understanding healthcare innovation (forward/backward, grassroots/open/reverse, push and pull), the innovation context in Kenya/Africa and the US, building an innovation ecosystem, global diffusion of innovations

Session 6: Accelerating the scale and pace of innovation/Diffusion of healthcare innovation: Connecting the dots

Session 7: Project Presentations

Session 8: Project presentations

Post Class:  Reflection Paper

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is an approach that brings students and professors together across cultures to learn, discuss and collaborate as part of their class.

Professors partner to design the experience and students partner to complete the activities designed. COIL becomes part of the class, enabling all students to have significant intercultural experiences within their course of study.

Faculté

The programme is delivered by a high-powered faculty team from both Strathmore University Business School (SBS) and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School (UNC).

Through the integrated expertise, participants gain a comprehensive view of healthcare systems strengthening especially during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The distinct needs of healthcare systems in both Kenya and the USA will also be considered.

Institut de gestion des soins de santé

Le secteur des soins de santé est dynamique et plus complexe que jamais, avec des innovations technologiques, de nouveaux traitements, de nouvelles lois et réglementations, et de nouveaux types de modèles de prestation de services de santé.

Les responsables de la prestation de soins de santé doivent non seulement répondre aux exigences quotidiennes d'une organisation complexe et très active, mais aussi évaluer et comprendre l'impact des différents modèles de prestation de soins de santé et des principaux programmes de prestation de services dans des domaines pathologiques spécifiques.

Nous avons développé au fil du temps des programmes pour aider les dirigeants et managers du secteur de la santé à faire face à ce paysage en constante évolution.