Centre for Leadership in Global Health Equity
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Centre for Leadership in Global Health Equity
The Center for Leadership in Global Health Equity (CLGHE) at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) was established in 2015 with the mission to transform emerging leaders into global health equity advocates capable of addressing health challenges worldwide. Our ultimate goal is to empower leaders who can influence decision-making and improve health outcomes for all people.
At CLGHE, we support and develop leaders across all stages of their careers through specialized training and a dynamic leadership network focused on equitable, high-quality healthcare. This is achieved through our Executive Education certificate courses, which range from short one-week programs to year-long courses. These flexible learning opportunities allow organizations and individuals to tailor comprehensive curricula around health system strengthening, management, and leadership education. Key leadership modules include Systems Thinking, Human-Centered Design, Results-Based Management, Personal Leadership, Strategic Problem Solving, and Leadership, Management, and Governance.
Our executive courses are designed with a hands-on approach, combining fieldwork in both rural and urban settings with classroom learning. Participants engage in case studies and challenge-based, experiential learning, complemented by individual mentorship and coaching. Faculty members include both international and local experts, as well as leaders from Rwanda’s Ministry of Health. Learners explore the successes and challenges of health programs in Rwanda and globally, gaining contextual knowledge that they can apply to improve their own healthcare systems.
Our expertise is in the following areas of global health: leadership, diplomacy, digital health, health financing and economics, disease elimination, strategic problem solving, systems thinking, Human Centered Design, epidemiology & disease control, advocacy & communications, programs sustainability, research & innovation, health equity, social determinants of health, and health systems and policies.
Upon completion, our participants return to their organizations and health systems equipped to deliver value-based programs and lead sustainable change. Through our alumni community of practice, learners stay connected with an international network of mentors, faculty, and peers, fostering ongoing professional development and collaboration across borders.
The Center for Leadership in Global Health Equity does not just train healthcare leaders, it transforms them. The offered executive education programs are uniquely designed to bridge the gap between theory and practice, equipping global health leaders with actionable skills to drive health systems reforms in their own countries. By offering hands-on, field-based learning, combined with mentorship from global and local experts, the Center for Leadership ensures that its graduates are not just equipped to lead, but to innovate within their specific cultural, political, and healthcare contexts.
What sets the Center for Leadership in Global Health Equity apart is its holistic approach: fusing world-class leadership training with deep, on-the-ground insights from Rwanda’s own Ministry of Health and Rwanda’s community health creating a learning experience that is both globally relevant and locally impactful. The alumni emerge not only with enhanced leadership abilities but with real-world solutions that can be immediately applied to strengthen health systems across Africa and beyond.
What We Do
Building on a foundation years of successful programming, UGHE’s Center for Leadership in Global Health Equity currently offers a wide variety of certificate programs for Global Health Leaders.
Existing Leadership Programs
Global Health Delivery Leadership Program (GHDLP)
The Global Health Delivery Leadership Program is an executive education program designed to equip leaders in global health with the skills and knowledge to address health challenges effectively. It focuses on strengthening health systems and building leadership capacity within public, private, and non-governmental organizations. The program emphasizes systems thinking, results-based management, and global health equity, with a particular focus on infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, maternal and child health, and digital health
The main objectives of the GHDLP program are:
- to develop leadership and program management skills in those responsible for implementing actions supported by the Global Fund in priority countries;
- to provide leaders with tools and skills to innovate in health care services; and
to discuss strategies and tools to enhance countries’ ability to receive and effectively manage grants.
Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity (AFHE)
The University of Global Health Equity hosts every year the Mid-Year Convening of the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity that explores global health equity with a focus on the experience of low- and middle-income countries.
The main objectives of the Mid-Year Convening of the AFHE include :
- Exploring contemporary global health issues from interdisciplinary and systems perspectives,
- Analyzing the distribution and causes of global health problems and assessing responses to poverty and health in low and middle-income countries.
- It aims to discuss the roles of major global health actors, examine the multifaceted social, economic, political, and environmental factors impacting health, and recognize gaps in health delivery while identifying equitable solutions.
- Additionally, the program seeks to address the complexities of global health improvement and apply acquired knowledge to solve common challenges, as well as discuss the concept
National Health Information Management Executive Leadership Program: Cameroon
The Applied Digital Health Focused Educational Trip is a week intensive program for sub-national level teams from Cameroon to experience and learn the innovative digital health especially the DHIS 2 interventions successfully implemented in Rwanda.
This educational trip will introduce the challenges in the implementation of DHIS 2 and how that has been addressed in Rwanda. This includes the existing government, international and community-led initiatives with best practices and challenges. This is a unique opportunity for Cameroon sub-national level health professionals to hear from leading health professionals, policymakers, and community health workers in Rwanda, and to discuss approaches to DHIS 2 issues with Rwandan counterparts.
The main purpose of the intensive week-long program for sub-national level teams is:
- to experience and learn about innovative digital health systems and strategies, specifically the DHIS 2 interventions successfully implemented in Rwanda. The main objectives of the program are:
- Learn about the data collection process in DHIS 2, from community to national level.
- Understand best practices for maintaining data quality in DHIS 2.
- Explore the monitoring and evaluation process of DHIS 2 system and process.
- Familiarize with data analysis and visualization systems in DHIS 2.
Health Financing Leadership and Practice (HFLP)
The Health Finance Leadership Program has been designed to equip health leaders with skills they need to deliver evidence-based health financing strategies in their own context.
The aim of the program is to help the learner to:
- Understand what is meant by health economics and its importance.
- Understand basic concepts in economics and health economics.
- Understand the demand and supply concepts in healthcare, and why healthcare markets fail.
- Be able to relate how national and global economies affect health and vice- versa
Global Health Academy on Community Health Resilience Program:
The Global Academy is a year-long program that aims to support community leaders from the US and Africa to design and implement health systems resilience and recovery strategies, build a sustained collaborative learning network of community leaders, and strengthen public health systems to prevent and respond to pandemics and humanitarian crisis.
Applied Health Community Field trip: Niger
The Applied Community Focused Field Trip is a week intensive program for health leadership teams from Niger to experience and learn the innovative public health interventions successfully implemented in Rwanda.
This educational trip will introduce the public health challenges and how that has been addressed in Rwanda. This includes the existing government, international and community-led initiatives with best practices and challenges. This is a unique opportunity for Niger health leadership to hear from leading health professionals, policymakers and community health workers in Rwanda, and to discuss approaches to health issues with Rwandan counterparts.
The one-week intensive educational trip is made up of a comprehensive field visit to health care facilities, organizations and communities which provide delegates with the opportunity to observe how the public health system works in Rwanda and to understand the complex challenges it faces
The main purpose of the one-week program of the Applied Health Community Focused Field Trip for health leaders from Niger is to learn from Rwanda’s innovative public health interventions. The objectives are to:
- Explore Rwanda’s community-based public health practices and innovations
- Learn best practices in addressing public health problems
- Understand community-based health financing systems
- Gain insight into COVID-19 management, vaccine rollout, and other health initiatives (e.g. HPV vaccine, TB management)
- Learn about Rwanda’s One Health initiative.
National Health Insurance Scheme Leadership Program- Nigeria
The program is designed for the “design and implementation team” of the National Health Insurance Authority from Nigeria.
This group of audiences focuses more on the process designing, implementation, management, and operating mechanism of the system.
This program provides a forum for knowledge exchange and experience sharing to assist the participants and their institutions in developing the most suitable national health insurance system has the following objectives:
- to understand how Rwanda developed and maintains the National Health Insurance system
- to share the lessons learned and the best practices, and
- to meet with implementers for experience sharing and discussion
Digital Health Applied Leadership Program (DHALP)
The Digital Health Applied Leadership Program (DHALP) is a program designed to build the capacity of digital health practitioners and stakeholders in low and middle-income countries. It aims to equip them with the skills and knowledge to lead and implement successful digital health programs. The program is a year-long learning experience that combines online courses, workshops, coaching, and practical capstone projects
The objectives of the Digital Health Applied Leadership Program are to equip learners with the following skills: by the end of the DHALP program, learners will be equipped to:
- Lead digital health strategies and engage stakeholders within the ecosystem.
- Analyze trends and identify opportunities and barriers in digital health enterprise planning.
- Build and sustain a community of practice for regional support and capacity-building.
- Design effective solutions for challenges related to health systems and digital health national planning.
- Advocate for and implement change within their institutions and organizations.
- Create capacity-building initiatives for sustainable digital health implementations.
- Develop and assess digital health programming and implementation plans, considering resource allocation and strategic priorities.
- Contribute to the establishment of governance, policies, and regulations for digital
Advanced training on Building Resilient Health Systems in Addressing Under-Five Mortality: An Implementation Research Approach
UGHE in partnership with the Gates Ventures hosted this training to help participants from Guinea and Tchad learn how to identify and address gaps in health system resilience through strengthening existing or introducing new strategies which reflect identified context and which are adapted for use in their country, focusing on the delivery of EBIs known to reduce amenable U5M.
The objective of the training is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the methodologies and assessment tools for national and subnational inquiry to equip participants with the skills to do a rapid assessment of their country’s health system resilience, and how to choose and use strategies to address identified barriers at the national and subnational levels while ensuing equitable response.
Disease Elimination & Eradication Course-DEEC:
The Disease Elimination and Eradication Course (DEEC) is a collaborative program offered by the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) and the University of Global Health Equity to train public health professionals and students in the principles and strategies of disease elimination and eradication
The main goals of the Disease Elimination and Eradication Course (DEEC) are as follows:
- Enrich participants’ understanding of the fundamental principles of disease elimination and eradication.
- Equip participants with the necessary competencies to develop effective strategies for eliminating and eradicating preventable diseases in vulnerable regions and countries.
These objectives aim to address the critical need in the field of global health, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on disease elimination efforts.
