EHMA is pleased to announce its newest webinar series
Health Management in action:
fostering health systems’ resilience
The series presents best practices, case studies, practical examples and implementable solutions to improve health systems preparedness and rapid response to health threats.
We warmly invite health managers, healthcare professionals, researchers, students, patient organisations, NGOs and industry representatives to attend and contribute to the dialogue on how to ensure health systems resilience and preparedness.
Each webinar is free and open to the public.
Date & Time: Friday, 2 September 2022- Dr Alexandre Lourenco, PhD, Health Administrator, Coimbra Hospital and University Center; Member of the Associação Portuguesa de Administradores Hospitalares (APAH), Portugal
- Mr Pedro Ramos, Member of the Board of Directors, Promptly Health
Date & Time: Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Crises are characterised by sudden shifts in healthcare and societal needs. The change in population needs during a crisis places a demand on all stakeholders in health and society to coordinate, adapt, and cope with unexpected situations. Leaders and managers at all levels have a key role to come up with efficient and rapid responses that reflect the diverse health and societal needs. We will showcase how inspired leadership, agile governance models and multistakeholder co-creation approaches can offer solutions to crises situations.
- Mr Nabil Jamshed, Head of Corporate Governance, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Date & Time: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
The functioning of health care largely depends on the level and method of financing. Countries choose between different private or public-financing models. This webinar will discuss how financing models relate to resilience and investigate if optimal funding models exist and if so, how they are determined by the broader political, economic and social context of the territory.
- Prof. Americo Cicchetti, Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Catholic University of Sacred Heart; Director at ALTEMS – Alta Scuola di Economia e Management dei Sistemi Sanitari, Italy
Date & Time: Wednesday, 5 October 2022
The COVID-19 outbreak demonstrated that the readiness to implement health system change is uneven across different countries. Assessing and measuring readiness is challenging due to the breadth and variety in the choice of measures. Numerous indicators have been identified as a means to measure the readiness of a health system: measuring capacity (bed capacity, bed occupancy, availability of emergency infrastructure), ability to mobilise resources and adequacy of supply chains, among others. In addition to quantitative measures, qualitative measurements are of substantial importance. In this webinar, speakers will highlight how multiple aspects and indicators of readiness must be considered, and can be practically measured to determine a health system’s readiness.
- Ms Lucy Morgan, Senior Researcher, Health Policy Partnership, United Kingdom
Date & Time: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the way healthcare services are being delivered? What are the new ways in which health service providers collaborate with other disciplines and how could we make these collaborations sustainable? The speakers will compare absorptiveness, adaptiveness, and transformativeness in health service provision before and after COVID-19.
- Prof Axel Kaehne, Director, Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit of Edge Hill University; Professor of Health Services Research, Edge Hill University; Editor in Chief, Journal of Integrated Care (Emerald), United Kingdom
- Mr Stecy Yghemonos, Executive Director, Eurocarers, Belgium
Date & Time: Tuesday, 18 October 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers were at the frontline of health systems in Europe, putting their own lives and safety at risk. Awareness grew of the need and importance to protect their mental and physical health. The needs of healthcare workers to effectively manage stress and build up resilience are complex and multi-faceted and will change based on the situation.
The webinar will highlight proven effective interventions to protect the mental health of essential healthcare workers. Speakers will elaborate on commitments to support mental health workforce and indicate further required actions.
- Prof. Dr Walter Sermeus, Full professor at KU Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, Programme Director of the Master of Healthcare Management & Policy KU Leuven, Head of the KU Leuven WHO CC on Human Resources for Health Research & Policy, Belgium
- Mr Patrick Focken, Magnet Coordinator, Hospital Bremerhaven-Reinkenheide, Germany
Date & Time: Thursday, 27 October 2022, 13.30-14.15 CET
Health literacy, health promotion, prevention, awareness raising and education all enable citizens to play a greater decision-making role, from the community level to the broader governmental and European scale. In health crises, countries rely both on their health system and the participation of communities to manage the challenges encountered. Further, meeting the health literacy needs of disadvantaged and marginalised societies can accelerate the progress to reduce inequalities in health. The session will highlight case studies and offer practical solutions to improve community engagement.
- Ms Caroline Costongs, Director, EuroHealthNet, Belgium
Date & Time: Thursday, 3 November 2022, 13.30-14.15 CET
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance for EU Member States, individually and collaboratively, to be prepared for crises and maintain sufficient, adaptive and responsive capacities to address the changing healthcare needs of European citizens. In this webinar, the speakers will showcase current structural gaps related to preparedness and response capacities and bring practical examples from national health systems. Speakers will also suggest possible solutions to these structural gaps.
- Prof Steve Thomas, Professor of Health Policy and Management; Director Health Policy and Engagement, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- You can watch the recording here
- You can read the summary report here
- You can access the slides here
Date & Time: Thursday, 17 November 2022, 14.30-15.15 CET
An atypical outbreak of monkeypox was declared this year. Lessons we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic put us in a position where we see that the underlying resilience of the healthcare systems in the countries is stronger than expected. This webinar will highlight the importance of promoting vaccination, building capacity for resilience, ensuring healthcare system operations and will thoroughly investigate the impact the monkeypox outbreak has on healthcare. Speakers will also elaborate on communication to the public and promoting access to information at large scale.
Speaker:
- Dr Peter Tinnemann, MPH, Head of the Global Health Science Unit at the Institute of Social Medicine, Germany
- You can watch the recording here
- You can read the summary report here
- You can access the slides here
Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 13.30-14.15 CET
The webinar will present good practices of how measures and “good habits” that were developed and introduced under the pressure of the pandemic have become part of national policies, institutional practices and personal habits. What are the recommended pathways and conditions to make the positive consequences of COVID sustainable?
Speakers:
- Dr Paolo Lauriola, ISDE Modena’s President and Head of the Regional Reference Centre “Environment & Health” of ARPA Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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This webinar series is co-funded by the EU4Health Programme of the European Union under Grant Agreement no. 101082904. Views and opinions expressed herein are of the speakers and authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or HADEA. Neither the European Union nor HADEA can be held responsible for them
