Managing Innovation for Sustainable Health

Welcome to the online course

 Innovation for Sustainable Health!

This online course was designed based on the leadership programme, Managing Innovation for Sustainable Health (MISH), for professionals in the health systems in Uganda, Somalia and DRC. The online course was developed by Makerere University, partners in the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health Links to an external site. with Karolinska Institutet. It leverages and builds on the material produced, experiences, and MISH alumni feedback. 

Expected outcomes:
       1.   Understand the ways of working with an integrated and collaborative approach towards UN 2030 Agenda.
       2.   Understand how to address and train people to lead sustainable development.
       3.   Gain knowledge to integrate innovation and evidence-based practices and policies in sustainable development work.

Program structure:

The course is self-paced. Each module takes approximately four hours to complete.  At the end of each module there is a rated quiz. The are three modules:

1. 1. 1. 1. Introductory concepts on sustainable health
         2. Innovative approach
         3. Multisectoral collaboration and implementation science

Certificate:

To complete the course you need to complete all of the quizzes and the final assignment.  Participants must score a minimum of 70% to qualify for a certificate. The certificate will come from all partner universities and become part of an international network of academics and practitioners representing a wide range of stakeholders working towards sustainable health.

Background

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are objectives adopted by member states of United Nations formally in 2015. These SDGs aim at ending poverty, protecting the planet, ensuring peace, effective partnerships, and prosperity for all. All member states of the United Nations committed to work towards attaining the 17 goals within 15 years.

Good Health and well-being (SDG 3) is central to all the SDGs. To achieve sustainable health, stakeholders need to work collaboratively and devise innovative and evidence-based methods of addressing the different health challenges. However, this is impeded by:

         a)    the inadequate understanding of how all the other SDGs are related to or contribute to good health and well-being, 
         b)    inadequate integration of principles and tools for innovation in sustainable health in tertiary training of professionals. 

The inability of individuals and governments to realize the interdependence of the SDGs often results into poorly aligned and ineffective approaches towards health challenges and more so, the attainment of sustainable health. Thus, in this course, we aim to train professionals to identify gaps in the delivery of the sustainable health in their organization(s) or communities, develop evidence based innovative solutions, and implement solutions in an integrated and collaborative manner across all concerned sectors.

Contact us 

If you have any questions regarding the programme, please contact us! 

• Technical support: Miriam Nanteza miriam.nanteza01@gmail.com
• Course related questions: Dr. Andrew Weil Semulimi andrewweil89@gmail.com 

For specific questions to the programme coordinators, please use email.

Course Directors.

• Dr. Victoria Nankabirwa, Lecturer, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University
• Dr. Charles Batte, Research Scientist and Program Manager, Lung Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University.