Education & Capacity development
The Centre is currently running several projects and offers training programs that aim to strengthen the capacity of professionals, contribute to innovation in the public sector and support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The programs include training on how to lead and organise for innovation, develop smart welfare services, and provide an inclusive service design with sustainable and efficient services.
The program offers a creative and innovative approach to build professional competences and confidence for leaders
Program period: 2 September 2024 – 30 May 2025
Application period: 4 March – 15 April 2024
Target group: governmental, academic and clinical professionals
Field: reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition
Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda
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Build capacity within the public health sector in the field of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition with midwifery-led interdisciplinary care as a model.
- Part-time (20%, 6-10 hours per week) online training program
- A regional study trip will be organized in April/May 2025
- Online modules on quality improvement, leadership and management
- Practical project module when the participants conduct a project in their own country
- Funder: Swedish Institute
Some of the topics that will be addressed:
- What is sustainable health and what are the ways of getting there? Globally, regionally and nationally – in collaboration.
- How can quality of care be sustained and further improved during and after the covid-19 pandemic?
- How to encourage interdisciplinary multi-professional teamwork and what makes a team a team?
- How to systematically close the gap between what we know and what we do?
- How to utilize evidence-based practices by choosing the right implementation strategies.
There is a mixture of participants from governmental institutions, academia and clinical care.
In total 27 participants are enrolled in the program.
- Video: Meet previous participants of the program
- Read article in ScienceDirekt about the Midwize: Implementing an internet-based capacity building program for interdisciplinary midwifery-lead teams in Ethiopia, Kenya Malawi and Somalia
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The program allows managers to strengthen their ability to ensure good health and well-being by working with a more holistic, evidence-based, collaborative and innovative approach
Program period: 2 September 2024 – 30 May 2025
Application period: 4 March - 15 April 2024
Target group: managers in the public and private sector
Field: delivery and improvement of the health care system
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda or Somalia
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Develop capacity to work successfully across sectors using an innovative approach to strengthen both preventive and curative health care
- Part-time (20%, 6-10 hours per week) online training program, free of charge
- The training is organized in three modules with interactive online workshops and group work, physical meetings and study visits
- A regional study trip will be organized in April/May 2025
- Foundation: latest research and best practice delivered by academics and professionals from partnering institutions
Agenda 2030 and sustainable health in fragile settings:
- What is sustainable health and what are the ways of getting there? Globally, regionally and nationally – in collaboration.
- How is health delivered today and what can be improved?
Innovation and innovation management:
- What is innovation really, why is it important and how can it be a useful tool?
- Innovation management – how to facilitate innovation in your organisation and projects?
Multisectoral collaboration and implementation science:
- How to systematically close the gap between what we know and what we do?
- How to utilize proven health interventions and evidence-based practices by choosing the right implementation strategies?
- Video: Interview with participants and course management during the meet-up in Kampala, Uganda in 2023
- News article: Impactful training on sustainable health for managers in Sub-Saharan Africa concludes in Uganda
- Video: An interview with Olivier Kambere, teacher and alumni of the program Managing Innovation for Sustainable Health
- Video: Professor Mala Ali Mapatano, from the University of Kinshasa School of Public Health in the DRC and Linn Tomasdotter, senior innovation consultant at Tinkr discuss the partnership of the involved organisation in the training
- Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health
- Benadir University (Somalia)
- University of Kinshasa School of Public Health (DRC)
- Tinkr (Sweden)
- Funder: Swedish Institute
Learn how to integrate principles and innovative tools and approaches in your teaching, research or organizational development of your workplace.
Online self-paced course for professional development
Free of charge, free access for all
Field: Sustainable health, innovative approach, multisectoral collaboration and implementation science
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Build capacity to effectively work and promote an integrated cross-sectoral and innovative approach towards achieving sustainable health and Agenda 2030
- Online self-paced course
- Free of charge, free access for all
- The course consists of 3 modules, each module takes about 4 hours to complete:
- Introductory concepts on sustainable health
- Innovative approach
- Multisectoral collaboration and implementation science
- An evaluation will be done through quizzes at the end of the module
- Each participant will have to score a minimum of 70% to qualify for a certificate
After completing the course you will be able to:
- understand ways of working with an integrated and collaborative approach towards Agenda 2030
- understand how to address and train people in leading sustainable development
- be able to integrate innovation and evidence-based practices and policies in sustainable development work
The course is adapted from the program Managing Innovation for Sustainable Health (MISH)
The project consists of trainings, workshops, networking and research exchanges in different areas.
Project period: 2021-2023
Target group: policy makers and civil servants on a national and regional level, civil society, researchers and students
Field: evidence-based decision-making, multisectoral work, implementation knowledge, visualization and use of data
Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Somalia
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Develop institutional capacity of fragile states to create and implement cost effective and innovative solutions to help reach the sustainable development goals, decrease poverty and increase gender equity.
The project include trainings, workshops, networking and research exchanges in different areas. The main purpose is to develop capacity in areas such as evidence-based decision-making, multisectoral work, implementation knowledge and visualization & use of data. The long-term goals of the project are to strengthen institutional capacity, decrease poverty and increase gender equality.
- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden
- Makerere University in Uganda
- Benadir University in Somalia
- University of Kinshasa School of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Operated by Karolinska Institutet in Sweden
and Makerere University in Uganda