Global Health
Leadership Forum (GHLF)

    Global Health Leadership Forum (GHLF)

The Global Health Leadership Forum (GHLF) is an innovative program for senior health executives focusing on health policy issues of global importance. 

The GHLF was created by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UPF Center for Research in Health and Economics (CRES), and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics joined the initiative in its sixth edition (2009).  The course is divided in two intensive sessions of one week to be held in Berkeley (California, USA) and Barcelona (Catalonia-Spain).

      Methodology

The curriculum includes renowned senior faculty and guest speakers. In consultation with expert faculty, participants will select a project based on “real world” country or company issues and will continue to work with faculty advisors during the six-month interim between sessions.

Using a mixture of case studies, seminars, workshops and an independent project, participants will learn cutting edge approaches to address health policy issues of global importance such as:

•    Implications of technology changes on health care
•    Public/private health insurance combinations
•    Strategies for health systems change
•    Innovations in payer and health delivery connections
•    Corporate health diplomacy
•    Information therapy for consumers
•    Pharmaceutical innovation, pricing, and regulation
•    Insurance reform

GHLF program details

     To whom the program is addressed

The program is intended for senior executives of nations (health ministers or senior policy leaders, legislators and regulators), senior executives of organizations (e.g. World Bank, OECD, PAHO) and senior executives of companies (insurance, pharmaceutical, health care delivery, care management).

GHLF program alumni from past sessions

     Program Highlights

Past Berkeley speakers have included:
•    Sir Richard Feachem, First Executive Director, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria
•    Ian Morrison, Health Care Futurist
•    Peter Berman, Harvard University and World Bank
•    Arnie Milstein, Mercer and Pacific Business Group on Health

Past Barcelona speakers have included:
•    Philip Musgrove, Deputy Editor for Global Health
•    Rafael Bengoa, Former Director, health System Policies and Operations, World Health Organization (WHO)
•    Peter Littlejohns, Clinical and Public Health Director, NICE
•    Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, Merck & Co.

View a list of GHLF speakers for upcoming sessions in Barcelona and Berkeley.

     Barcelona Sessions Archive

2009 Read summary | View photos

Faculty Highlights: Dr. Josep Figueras, director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and head of the WHO European Centre on Health Policy in Brussels   Prof. Philip Musgrove (Johns Hopkins University), deputy editor for Global Health, Health Affairs Journal   Dr. Rafael Bengoa, director of Health System Policies and Operations at the WHO in Geneva   Prof. Panos Kanavos, head of the Medical Technology Research Unit at the London School of Economics