Table 1

Description of the programme format and content

FormatContent
Lectures, seminars, group work/exercises and discussion

  • Introduction to leadership/journey into leadership.

  • Principles of health economics and health system financing.

  • Legal aspects of healthcare.

  • Teamwork.

  • Quality improvement.

  • Service delivery innovation.

  • Health systems and system level challenges globally.

Individual assignments

  • The follow a leader exercise: interview and shadow a leader for 1 day (submission of a report).

  • A leadership challenge (submission of a reflective essay).