Modules
1. India Flagship: Health System Policy and Management
This module is based on the World Bank's Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing and was customized to respond directly to the Indian context. Top- and mid-level policy makers and technocrats are the target audience. It supports the development of skills and capacities in health system innovations and helps diagnosing system related problems, their causes, and potential solutions. The module draws on a broad menu of national and international experience and covers a range of critical and interesting issues including performance goals for the Indian health system with a focus on NRHM; improving government services; increasing human resources for rural areas; decentralization in the health sector and using private providers to increase coverage. Course pedagogy includes and inter-active mix of group work, plenary discussions, case study/teaching case analysis and study tour.
2. Public-Private Partnership in Health
This module was designed in response to a needs assessment carried out in three Indian states, where public-private partnership in health emerged as one of the key issues that government officials expressed interest in learning more about. The course gives participants an opportunity to interact and share their own experiences of PPP while exposing them to models and experiences from around the world. It provides an overview of different PPP models, shares international and Indian experiences from various states, introduces contracting and the contracting tool kit developed by the World Bank, includes impact evaluation and how best to facilitate and institutionalize partnerships. The course pedagogy is inter-active and built around group work, case studies, experience sharing by practitioners and a field visit to a functioning PPP model.
3. Human Resource Management in Health
This module was designed in response to a needs assessment carried out in three Indian, where public-private partnership in health emerged as one of the key issues that government officials expressed interest in learning more about. Content areas include estimation of future HR needs, understanding HR challenges in rural areas, assessing educational capacity and HRH financing, change management, satisfaction, motivation and performance, supervision &monitoring and strategic planning for HR. The course provides participants an opportunity to interact and learn about models and experiences from other parts of India as well as other countries. The course pedagogy is inter-active and built around group work, case studies, experience-sharing and the development of a strategic plan for HRH for each participating state. This module is supported by two faculty from the Harvard School of Public Health.
This module was designed in response to a needs assessment carried out in three Indian states, where "Quality of Care" emerged as an important area of learning for officials in the health sector. Content areas include health sector reform and quality, infrastructure for quality, hospital accreditation, benchmarking, cost of quality improvement, role of patients in improving quality and quality measuring tools. The course pedagogy is interactive and participatory and built around group work, experience sharing, field visits and case analysis. The module is supported by two faculty members from Heidelberg University in Germany which runs a reputed international course on quality of care.