Prof Looi Lai-Meng - World Health Summit

Education and Training for Health Professional
Leadership
Professor Dr Looi Lai-Meng
Co-Chair, InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)
Senior Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia and Distinguished
Professor, University of Malaya
(looilm@ummc.edu.my)
The InterAcademy
Medical Panel
• is the global network of the world's medical academies and medical
sections of academies of science and engineering
• has 70 member academies
• is committed to improving health world-wide
• IAMP activities focus on institutional collaboration to strengthen the
role of all academies
– to alleviate the health burdens of the world's poorest people;
– to build scientific capacity for health;
– to provide independent evidence-based scientific advice on promoting
health science and health care policy to national governments and
global organizations.
The effectiveness of academies
to address challenges and bring
about change depends on….
• Good science; good advice
• Proactive collaboration
• Sustainability of leadership
In spite of its importance, relatively little
systematic investment has addressed the
challenge of leadership development in the
health sector.
Today’s World is far from well…
21st Century problems
• Gaps and inequities in health
• Health security threats with demographic &
epidemiological transitions
• Complex health systems, rising costs & demands
Graduants ill-equipped to face 21st Century challenges
Education & training in professional silos
Leadership and teamwork required
A Global Independent Commission:
Education of Health Professionals for the
21st Century
• Co-Chairs:
– Julio Frenk (Dean, Harvard School of Public
Health)
– Lincoln Chen (President, China Medical Board)
• 20 commissioners (international)
• Research Team, Advisory bodies & Youth
Commissioners
• Sponsors:
– Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller
Foundation & China Medical Board
• 20 professional and academic
leaders from diverse countries
Pakistan, USA, Canada, UK, Bangladesh, Peru,
South Africa, Lebanon, China, India, Uganda, etc
– Shared vision for Health professional education
– Beyond confines of national borders and
professional silos.
– Global outlook, a multiprofessional perspective,
and systems approach
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR A NEW CENTURY:
Transforming Education Systems in an interdependent world
30 Nov – 1 Dec 2010
Launch of Lancet Commission Report
Symposium organized by:
•Harvard School of Public Health
•China Medical Board
•The Lancet
Landscaping, identifying gaps
and opportunities, and offering
recommendations for reform
Transformative learning
Step-wise instructional reforms
• Informative learning:
– acquiring knowledge and skills - produce experts.
• Formative learning:
– socialising students around values - produce
professionals
• Transformative learning
– developing leadership attributes - produce
enlightened change agents.
IAMP is a partner with China Medical Board and
the (US) Institute of Medicine in promoting
global dissemination of the report
• Discussion of report’s conclusions and recommendations at a
national level.
• Encourage regional networks of academies to address these
issues, and function as forum for information exchange and
coordination.
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR A NEW CENTURY:
Transforming Education Systems in an interdependent world
IAMP Academies involved in
dissemination:
•The Bangladesh Academy of Sciences
•The Cameroon Academy of Sciences
•Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences
•The Academy of Sciences Malaysia
•The Nigerian Academy of Science
•Academy of Science of South Africa
•National Academy of Sciences of Sri
Lanka
•The Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences
National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka
Action:
•Align curriculum with challenges
•Inter-professional team approach
•National strategies &
recommendations
•Advocacy for change
IAMP Young Physician Leaders (YPL)
Programme
• foster “a new generation of leaders in global health for
the 21st Century”.
• develop a critical mass of young physician leaders in a
learning and action network worldwide
• challenge member academies to support young
physicians in their countries and to strengthen their
leadership skills.
Launch in 2011 in conjunction with the World
Health Summit (WHS) in Berlin, Germany
YPL 2011
22 participants from 18
countries, 14 from low/middleincome countries and 8 women
Supported by:
•The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of
Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)
•Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
•IAP – the global network of science
academies
•M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers,
and Medical Universities
•WHS - The World Health Summit
Letter submitted by 2011 YPLs to The Lancet
IAMP YPL
2012
1. ABDELMAWGOUD Moaz A.
2. ABIERA Joycie Eulah
3. AGAMPODI Suneth
4. BAFICA Andre
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Brazil
5. CALIBO Anthony
Philippines
6. DRAGER Luciano
8. LAHER Fatima
Brazil
South Africa
9. LAM Carolyn Lam Su Ping
11. LIM Wei-Yen
Egypt
Singapore
Singapore
12. LYSSENKO Valeriya
Sweden
13. MAIER Anna-Karina
Germany
14. ODUBANJO Mosebolatan Olatokunboh
15. PELEG Anton
Australia
16. RABIU Taopheeq Bamidele
17. SHAMSUDIN Norashikin
Nigeria
Malaysia
18. SIMON Melissa Andrea USA
19. YOUNG Taryn South Africa
Nigeria
YPL 2013
8 April
YPL Asia Region 2013
Singapore
18/19October (TBC)
YPL 2013
WHS Berlin Germany
Key elements of YPL programme
• Pre-event assessments
• Discuss models for leadership
• Create learning network among YPLs to share career experiences
and challenges in their countries
• Develop individual action plan for personal leadership development
following the workshop.
• Exposure to a leadership panel
• Participation in World Health Summit - outstanding scientific and
policy programme and unprecedented networking opportunities.
• Mentoring by IAMP EC and member academies
What YPLs have to say…
• “This exposure was like a window through which we took a glance
into the future”
• “I learnt that despite the various differences in society, some
management and leadership challenges still cut across the board”.
• “We learnt from each other as much as we learnt from the Senior
leaders.”
• “I have identified what my personal strengths/skills are and how I
could use these to become a better leader”
• “ …the opportunity to meet people both at my same level of career
development and established medical leaders, creating a network
on which to rely in the future”.
• “I have identified what I could do to gain support from various
institutions around me. “
Some outcomes….
• e publication in The Lancet, describing YPL experience
and value. (http://tinyurl.com/Lancet-YPL-iamp)
• Involvement in Wing of Zock (an online idea exchange
for students, residents, faculty, and administrators at
medical schools and teaching hospitals)
• Bangladesh Academy of Sciences has agreed to initiate
programmes involving young medical professionals
• Further joint publications on the way…
• Extending YPL programme
• YPL Alumni network
Education and Training for Health Professional Leadership:
Three key messages
• Sustainability in leadership is crucial to manage emerging challenges
and bring about change.
• IAMP academies have been actively deliberating the Global
Commission’s proposed reforms on education of health
professionals, addressing leadership and teamwork issues, and
formulating local action plans.
• The IAMP YPL programme has been developed to foster a new
generation of physician leaders. Member academies contribute by
mentoring their YPLs, strengthening their leadership skills and
confidence.
For more information
www.iamp-online.org
IAMP Secretariat
c/o TWAS,
Strada Costiera 11
34151 Trieste, Italy
iamp@twas.org