Deadline: 30-Jun-23
Applications are now open for Sciana: The Health Leaders Network cohort 6 that will exchange strategies, pioneering work, innovations and bold ideas in their work towards developing new forms of health promotion and care, over the two-year systems leadership programme.
The programme will give participants a chance to learn from other fellow’s pioneering work across Germany, Switzerland, and the UK and from international experts. Fellows will be given ample space and support to incubate and test news cross-boundary collaborations among the group in the form of an applied leadership project, called the Sciana challenge.
Cohort 6 Theme
- Systems leadership for new forms of health, care and wellbeing
- The future of health and care depends on a systems approach in response to the dramatic changes of their times, such as ageing, crises in health care, social care, and housing; growing inequalities and burden of mental health; and innovations in technology.
- Adapting to these challenges requires fundamentally new forms of health, care and wellbeing, which go well beyond today’s conventional approaches to health. Sciana believes health includes health promotion, prevention and early intervention, care includes the delivery of health care and social care, and wellbeing goes beyond physical health and includes mental wellbeing.
- Leaders will need to be prepared to take on unprecedented efforts to galvanise cross-boundary commitments and collaborations to steer a truly transformative future for health.
Activities
- Many network activities are informally organized by fellows. However, Sciana welcomes all cohort fellows to participate in a range of opportunities, such as:
- Participating in foundation-led events and online sessions (e.g. Sciana masterclass)
- Joining international Sciana network meetings at international health organizations or European health organizations
- Contributing and receiving news from the network via the Sciana newsletter and the online community platform.
- Returning to residentials as a guest speaker
- Listening to recordings of the Sciana lecture, masterclass and deep dives
- Participating in Salzburg Global programmes
Eligibility Criteria
- At Sciana, they are committed to developing a generation of leaders advancing the future of care, health, and wellbeing.
- Sciana looks for mid-to-senior level leaders in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK who are able to catalyse and empower collective action among actors, organisations and coalitions for systems-level change in health.
Selection Criteria
- Current work
- Involved with leading collaborative work that is cross-sector and cross-disciplinary.
- Holding a position in the field of health and/or public policy, research, science, digital health, technology, media, community development, industry, patient advocacy, innovation, or similar fields.
- Experience
- Experience of advancing new forms of health promotion and care through innovation, research, policymaking and/or community programmes, including influencing multiple stakeholders and systems (may also include experience of working at upstream determinants of health)
- Skills
- Collaborative skills and committed to engaging actively with a community of peers and experts.
- Knowledge of, or experience with multiple international health systems (desirable)
- Have excellent English language skills (knowledge of further languages is an advantage).
- Qualities and interests
- Entrepreneurial and strategic thinking, understanding the scale and complexity of key challenges facing health and health care systems.
- Deep commitment to equity, quality, sustainability, universal coverage, and patient and community-centred care and wider endeavours as outlined in the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Committed to attending all seminars and meetings, which may require travel to Salzburg and local meetings.
- They encourage all gender, race, and people with disabilities to apply. At Sciana, they value diversity and strive to create an inclusive community of healthcare leaders who come from different backgrounds and bring unique perspectives to the table.
For more information, visit Sciana: The Health Leaders Network .