Reports

Building Healthcare Leadership in Africa: A Call to Action

Accordia publishes occasional reports on topics related to building healthcare capacity and strengthening medical centers in Africa.

Building Healthcare Leadership in Africa: A Call to Action was released on June 18, 2009 at an event in Washington, DC ( Video and materials from the event are available below ). With contributions from noted experts on leadership development and strengthening African healthcare systems, and informed by the presentations and discussions that took place at Accordia’s 2009 Infectious Diseases Summit, Building Healthcare Leadership in Africa: A Call to Action considers the opportunities and challenges inherent in building healthcare leadership in Africa at the individual, institutional, and network levels. The report’s foreword was written by Ambassador Mark Dybul (former U.S. Global AIDS coordinator) who notes in it that:

The work that PEPFAR, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, and other institutions are doing is also changing ideas about the best way to provide development resources. These efforts are demonstrating that partnerships should be focused on building capacity for a sustainable response. Federal global health policy has dramatically shifted to acknowledge that the people of host nations are the leaders in this fight, and our role is to support them.

An important way of providing that support is by encouraging leadership development efforts—for individuals, institutions, and networks—like those laid out in this report by Accordia Global Health Foundation. As the report makes clear, leadership is critical to Africa’s long-term success in addressing its healthcare challenges, and more focus must be placed on the development of leaders at all levels of the healthcare continuum.

The report features contributions from authors including Joseph Dwyer (Director of the Management and Leadership Program at Management Sciences for Health), Dr. Peter Ngatia (Director, Capacity Building for the African Medical and Research Foundation -AMREF), Theresa M. Riddle (Managing Director and Founder of The Crossland Group), Dr. Nelson Sewankambo (Principal of Makerere University's College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda and Vice President of Accordia Global Health Foundation), and Kelly S. Willis (Senior Vice President for Program Development at Accordia).

A PDF version of Building Healthcare Leadership in Africa: A Call to Action is now available.  Please click here to download the full report.

Please click here to view video from the release event.  The Agenda, Report Presentation, Presenter and Panelist Biographies and the Press Release from the release event are also available.