Master Classes

Explores the impact of innovation in the healthcare system and provides an overview of various ways technologies have advanced healthcare delivery and health outcomes. Participants will use a telehealth case study to unpack the complexities of leveraging technology to innovate within healthcare.

Analyzes how investors approach the healthcare sector in an era of accelerating change. Participants will examine the process by which investors screen for viable investment ideas, conduct financial statement analysis, and implement competitive intelligence efforts.

Examines the strategies for successfully identifying a business opportunity, and the tools to start, grow, and maintain a healthcare enterprise. Participants will consider what defines successful entrepreneurship and what distinguishes an idea from a real opportunity, as well as identify methods for creating a business model, engaging a customer base and managing risk. 

Explores how healthcare organizations respond to health disparities and cultural stigmas. Participants will identify disparities that exist within their community and discuss the impact on diverse populations. This module will also analyze the effect stigmas have on patient access to healthcare, and consider the effect of both stigmas and disparities on the management of healthcare organizations.

Defines key concepts of medical ethics as they relate to public policy, law and management. Participants will extrapolate ethical theories and connect them to issues within their own organization. 

Explores the burden of mental health disorders and articulates the essential ways in which mental health is an intimate component of overall wellbeing. Participants will consider the interplay of policy, scientific advances, financing, and historic events that shape mental health systems and policies.

An overview of the general influences of globalization on health and health equity. This module will explore the roles and responsibilities of national health leadership – primarily Ministries of Health and governmental institutions –  in assuring the health of their populations.

Evaluates the current strategies used to quantify the tradeoffs in public health decisions regarding risks, costs, and benefits. Participants will identify the techniques used in performing cost-effectiveness analyses and will critique these methods while considering the uncertainty surrounding public health policy and patient care.

Provides an overview of responses to disasters, and examines the ability of governmental and non-governmental systems to anticipate and respond to the needs of a population following a disaster. Participants will analyze the response to and impact of recent natural and man-made disasters.

An overview of the major public healthcare companies that influence and shape the U.S. healthcare system. Participants will gain insight into how companies are driving decision and policy, including value-based healthcare, transparency, technology innovation, consumerism, reimbursement pressures, and the undefined role of government that affects all the players.

Examines classical and contemporary theories of management and describes the role of management in hospitals, particularly as it relates to the vision, structure and operations of large hospital and health systems. This module will explore the impact of healthcare operations on delivering high quality care – resulting in positive patient experiences and improved organizational culture. Participants will learn the fundamentals of LEAN thinking, and how LEAN has been applied to improve hospital operations.

Analyzes healthcare policies and the pressures for health policy change in a range of industrialized nations. The module will explain why nations may differ in their health policy choices. Participants will evaluate the pros and cons of policy decisions to better understand the dynamic and complex environment in which health policymakers operate.

Examines how new medical technologies affect the economics of the U.S. health care system and how economic incentives impact the processes of medical technology development and diffusion. Participants will learn about the institutions and policies affecting the rate and direction of medical innovation.

Targets the policies and proposals behind the growth of pharmaceutical impact on the cost of the healthcare system. This master class will expose participants to the roles of pharmaceutical expenditures in total health spends, discuss incentives in private sector research, review the risks and uncertainties in pharmaceutical innovation and understand how health economics and outcomes research can support and complement the deployment of a pricing strategy.

Provides overview of how global health policy influences population health management. This master class moves from the macro policy environment, which includes understanding how global health’s roots in colonial medicine affect the way policy is manifested today to the micro, management setting, examining effective interventions and the transition from volume-based care to value-based care.