GCH 8262 Child Health and Health Systems Innovation
The course will discuss the importance of harnessing the power of innovation to respond to unmet health needs and save children. It will focus on innovation in health systems strengthening and new ways of thinking and organizing people, processes, and resources to make this happen. The focus will not be limited to product innovation. The students will learn how to foster new approaches to complex and persistent problems in child health through new or improved child health policies, systems, technologies, and services that improve equity, efficiency, effectiveness, quality, sustainability, safety and/or affordability within the health systems context.