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As health systems respond to COVID-19, the importance of management and leadership capacity has never been clearer. At the same time, we have observed a drastic shift in health system priorities away from ongoing systems strengthening toward immediate response. Additionally, traditional models of workforce development are obsolete in the context of COVID-related restrictions on travel and convening. The objectives of this poster presentation are to (1) describe the rationale for continuing support for resilient leadership during COVID-19 and other health emergencies and (2) demonstrate how an ongoing leadership and management development program was adapted in real-time to prepare immunization professionals to manage complex challenges during COVID-19. The Expanded Programme on Immunisation Leadership and Management Programme (EPI LAMP), commissioned by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a 9-month certificate-level programme for teams of Ministry of Health officials responsible for the ach

Guiding coalitions are a tool that can be used to promote positive culture change in US hospitals. What is the difference between an effective and ineffective guiding coalition? How do well-formed guiding coalitions shift culture? Yale’s Global Health Leadership Initiative (ghli.yale.edu) conducted the Leadership Saves Lives study to find out. (Bradley, E. H., Brewster, A. L., McNatt, Z., Linnander, E. L., Cherlin, E., Fosburgh, H., ... & Curry, L. A. (2018). How guiding coalitions promote positive culture change in hospitals: a longitudinal mixed methods interventional study. BMJ Qual Saf, 27(3), 218-225;

Organizational culture has been proven to be as important as blockbuster medicines in improving health outcomes for patients suffering from a heart attack. But can you change a hospital’s organizational culture? Yale’s Global Health Leadership Initiative ( conducted the Leadership Saves Lives study to find out. (Curry, L. A., Linnander, E. L., Brewster, A. L., Ting, H., Krumholz, H. M., & Bradley, E. H. (2015). Organizational culture change in US hospitals: a mixed methods longitudinal intervention study. Implementation Science, 10(1), 29. ;

In support of Ethiopia's Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP), the Primary Health Care Transformation Initiative (PTI) is designed to build culture of performance management and accountability at the district (Woreda) level, preparing the Woreda Health Office to lead the primary health care unit of the future. PTI is led by the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute, and represents an initial three-year (2016-2018) investment in 36 Woredas across Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray regions of Ethiopia. This video describes PTI's approach to building performance management capacity, including perspectives of program participants.

The program, Getting to Better Health: Connecting Care and Community, focused on the importance of connecting the dots between the health care system and the social determinants of health. The health reform agenda is focused on achieving access to quality, affordable care to improve health. Yet evidence shows that social and economic determinants such as housing, employment and food security have a much greater impact on health than clinical care. In order to truly aim for better health, much stronger connections are needed between those involved with clinical care and community-based resources. The keynote speaker was Elizabeth Bradley, Professor at the Yale School of Public Health and co-author of the book, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting us Less. Dr. Bradley spoke about the need for greater investment in social supports and community-based infrastructure in order to improve population health. The second speaker was Jenney Samuelson, Assistant Director