Summer School in Public Health Policy, Economics and Management in Lugano (Switzerland), 26 to 31 August 2013
Organizers
The Summer School in Public Health Policy, Economics and Management is organised by the Foundation Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), the Institute of Economics (IdEP) of the University of Lugano and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH).
Participants
Courses are intended for professionals and managers of health administrations, hospitals and other services and facilities within the health sector, policy-makers and any student registered for one of the continuous education programs coordinated and supported by SSPH+.
The Summer School is an opportunity to meet new colleagues and peers, to exchange knowledge, build networks, and share insights. The emphasis will be on participative approaches, complemented by formal teaching.
Program 2013
6 Day Courses| No. | Title | Facilitator | Description |
1 |
Public Mental Health: Evaluations of Programmes and Policies | Martin Knapp (Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Professor of Health Economics, King’s College London, UK) and Emiliano Albanese (National Institute on Aging/National Institute of Health Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, Bethesda, USA) |
| 2 |
Governance and Management of Comprehensive Health Networks based on a Population Approach
|
Denis Roy (Associate Professor at the Social and Preventive Medicine Department, University of Montreal and the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Medicine Department, McGill University, Director of Information and Knowledge Management, Monteregie Local Health and Social Services Network Development Agency) and Eric Litvak (Responsible for Teaching and Research, Direction of Public Health Montréal) | |
| 3 |
Planning of Health Systems with Limited Resources
|
Don de Savigny (Head of the Health Systems Interventions Research Unit in the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute) and Marcel Tanner (Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute) and Bernadette Peterhans (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute) | |
| 4 |
Methodology and Practical Application of Economic Evaluation and HTA in Health Care |
Bernard Burnand (Head of the Health Care Evaluation Unit, Institute of social and preventive medicine, University of Lausanne and Director of CepiC (Clinical Epidemiology Centre), Hospices/CHUV), Finn Borlum Kristensen (Adjunct Professor, University of Southern Denmark and Director, EUnetHTA Secretariat, National Board of Health, Copenhagen, Denkmark), Mike Drummond (Professor of Health Economics, Centre of Health Economics (CHE), University of York, UK) and Marco Barbieri (Consultant, i3Innovus, UK) | |
| 5 |
Strategic Management |
Bernhard Güntert (Professor of Health Services Management, Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall, Austria) and Axel Hoffmann (Head of the Teaching and Training Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute) |