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Public Health Leadership Development

Four Days (24 Hours) Course
May 2024
London - United Kingdom (Face-to-face) and Online

Designed and Delivered by Dr Muna Abdel Aziz
Director of Public Health for Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
Fellow (FFPH) Faculty of Public Health (FPH), UK

Today’s specialists and practitioners have a moral and professional obligation to themselves, their patients and the general public to remain up to date in their fields of practice, and to adopt evidence-based practice and quality improvement. They must also act with integrity and put in place continuing professional development, acknowledge their shortcomings and learn from their mistakes so they continue to meet their obligations in the rapidly evolving regulatory environment. Usually their work is dependent on others in their teams, organisations and wider society.

This programme over a number of days gives participants to learn, reflect and revisit their leadership sphere of control and influence to plan effective change programmes, improve outcomes and tackle barriers and inequalities. The sessions have been designed to introduce participants to systematic reflective practice and continuous improvement by adopting a learning approach and essential skills to listen, and take time to think. By the end of the programme, attendees should be able to put in place their daily, weekly, monthly and annual rhythms of reflections, appraisal and documentation to help achieve their own career goals and their contribution to the sustainable development goals.

The SDGs can only be delivered by working in partnership across all dimensions. Each day of the programme will focus relevant SDG goals for in-depth exploration such as health, education, youth and gender. Led by an experienced director of public health, the programme has been designed to cover the wider determinants of health, well-being and sustainability. The sessions will enable leaders and decision makers to introduce fit-for-purpose advanced leadership styles and approaches to their teams and organisations. The programme will provide participants across the public and private sectors and in the voluntary community and enterprise sector with tools to engage positively and co-produce ways of working that meet the needs of service delivery and wider society.

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Queen Mary University, London, England EC1M 6BE, United Kingdom

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The course is designed and will be delivered by one of the world's top and renowned expert on public health and leadership, Dr Muna Abdel Aziz

Director of Public Health for Salford, Greater Manchester from January 2020; previously held various leading positions such as Director of Public Health and Prevention Services for Warrington; Deputy Director of Sudan Public Health Institute; International CPD Adviser for the UK Faculty of Public Health, and Training Programme Director for Public Health Specialty in Cheshire and Merseyside which was part of Health Education England. She is the Founding Member of the Sudan Health Consultancy from 2003, and Founder of YourB which is the first Sharia compliant credit union in the UK.

PhD University of Cambridge and Master of Public Health University of Nottingham, UK.
PG Cert with Distinction on Workplace Based Postgrad Medical Education, Edge Hill University, UK.
Three Clinical Excellence Awards, Salford, Public Health England (2020-23).
Five levels Clinical Excellence Awards, Warrington, Public Health England (2015-19).
Clinical Excellence Award for medical leadership, Sheffield, National Health Services (2009).
Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training, UK Medical Royal Colleges (2003).
15 Distinctions and 8 Prizes (1983-89); Lord Kitchener’s Memorial Prize (1989) and 50th Anniversary Prize (1989), University of Khartoum Faculty of Medicine.

Contact Us

To register/enquire about this course and all our various comprehensive list of courses and workshops, please contact us (admin@wasd.org.uk) and if you have any question and/or if you would like to request a training workshop/program not listed in our portfolio please contact our training coordinator Janet Snow at: janet.snow@wasd.org.uk.

Registration and Fees

To join the workshop, you can either register online (Eventbrite) or contact WASD International Coordinator, Mrs Janet Snow: janet.snow@wasd.org.uk.

Included in the workshop fee, the following learning materials will be provided:

Admission to all sessions including tea/coffee breaks and lunches/dinner.
All overhead slides (PDF).
Case studies (PDF and video).
Copy of the workshop manual.
Certificate of attendance.

What will you learn

Each of the days on this programme can be taken as a standalone course. Each of the sessions will be sufficiently generic to apply to target beneficiaries like women, youth, older people, minority and vulnerable groups, health care workers and migrants.

By focusing on their own continuous professional development, learners will be able to:

Utilise personal development planning for work life balance and career goals. This includes effective time management and monitoring tools.
Embed reflective practice and quality improvement in daily, monthly and annual cycles for CPD and management appraisal.
Practise using inclusive techniques through learning hubs for CPD and to get the best out of teams and partnerships.

To improve their system leadership for better outcomes in health and wellbeing, or quality improvement in healthcare outcomes and infection control, learners will be able to:

Explore public health approaches, and assess their strengths and development areas as a leader in a team, organisation or health system.
Apply different approaches to change management – Logical planning, Strategic shifts, Quality Improvement PDSAs, Stakeholder and root cause analyses.
Recognise stereotypes, blind spots, assumptions and risks.
Measure progress and consider health inequalities and unintended consequences.
Work together to plan their approach to a practical dilemma facing a clinical team or partnership, using at least one of the frameworks discussed during the session (e.g. infection control).
Set personal goals to improve their leadership at the personal, team, organisation or system level.

By applying their leadership to an area of work such as women’s reproductive health, or other Partnerships for the SDGs, learners will be able to:

Recognise the key decision points for women to access health care and prevention programmes.
Recognise the different stakeholders for women accessing health promoting activities, both barriers and influencers.
Outline some of the dilemmas in women’s health care in relation to childbearing, fertility and infertility, and the menopause.
Acknowledge some of the taboos facing access to health care regarding mental health, sexually transmitted infections and hidden outbreaks.
Explore by walking in their shoes, at least one of the challenges and recommend change programmes in relation to women’s health clinics, risk communication and community engagement.

Program Structure

The course will provide professionals within the public health sectors with the best leadership skills to implement effectively in their organisations.
There will be an activity or set of activities for each session which will be designed to help you engage with the introduction to the theories explored within the course.
Your facilitator will be on hand to guide you through the programme and will expect you to bring personal experience and reflection on the topics covered.
Group work will be required for participants to engage in the course. Such activity allows participants to embed the new knowledge within their experience through active discussion and challenge.

Developing continuing education for health practitioners

Session 1: Why and how we learn

The Experiential Learning Cycle
Time to Think theory and practice

Session 2: The shortest route to where you want to get to

Personal Development Plans
Reflective practice and Appraisal
Keeping a learning journal

Session 3: Continuous improvement in outcomes

Practise how to lead your Learning hubs
The power of positive thinking
Debrief and next steps

Leadership methods in public health

Session 1: Do we know ourselves and each other well enough?

Personal Leadership
Team Leadership
System leadership

Session 2: What and who are we missing?

Logical Planning framework
Strategy development and operationalising strategy
Quality Improvement in Healthcare Public Health

Session 3: How can we make a difference by changing the incentives?

Improving service outcomes through ‘safe-to-fail’ experiments
What to do when you are feeling ‘stuck’
Change programmes for hospital and community infection control

Women’s reproductive health

Session 1: The reproductive cycle

Birth intervals, Breastfeeding, family planning
Sexual health and contraception
Teenage pregnancy, unwanted pregnancies

Session 2: What women want, and where women go

Models of delivery (hub and spoke) or pop-up clinics
Integrated women’s health clinics, wellbeing services
Immunisation and health /cancer screening

Session 3: Dilemmas for women’s health care

Fertility and infertility
Menopause and mental health
Sexually transmitted infections, Taboo and stigma

Quality Improvement in infection control

Session 1: Principles

Infectious diseases
Universal IPC precautions
Enhanced IPC precautions

Session 2: Settings based infection control

Risk assessments
IPC audits
Serious incidents and near misses
Root cause analysis

Session 3: Systems approach to infection control

Behaviour change
Professional and lay perspectives
International Health Regulations
Preparedness and response

Dr Muna Abdel Aziz is currently the Director of Public Health for Salford, Greater Manchester from January 2020; and previously held various leading positions such as Director of Public Health and Prevention Services for Warrington; Deputy Director of Sudan Public Health Institute; International CPD Adviser for the UK Faculty of Public Health, and Training Programme Director for Public Health Specialty in Cheshire and Merseyside which was part of Health Education England.

Dr Muna field of specialization includes Public Health and Community Medicine. With over thirty years of experience in Public Health, she has both academic and professional experience working in partnership to improve the health system through leadership, management and delivery of high-quality healthcare and wellbeing services. As well as managing multi-million public health programmes, she has directed and influenced the way other sectors and partners spend their time and money. She continues to advocate for multidisciplinary approaches to complex challenges; such as mobile health solutions for universal health coverage, expanding health insurance to the informal sector, and co-producing innovative approaches with local communities. She is the Founding Member of the Sudan Health Consultancy from 2003 and Founder of YourB which is the first Sharia compliant credit union in the UK.

Qualifications

Dr Abdel Aziz is on the Public Health Specialist Register of the UK General Medical Council and registered with the Sudan Medical Council as a Specialist in Community Medicine. A medical doctor, she has been working in Public Health from May 1992; initially in the Sudan and over twenty years in the UK. She has had a distinguished academic and professional career as the top student in university and with distinctions and awards throughout her career. She has significant experience in leading transformation change, policy, strategy, teaching and research.

Her qualifications in Public Health include Clinical MD in Community Medicine (University of Khartoum, Aug 1995), her PhD from University of Cambridge (Mar 2001), Master of Public Health at University of Nottingham (Sep 2001). She was awarded full Membership of the UK Faculty of Public Health by Examination (Mar 2003), Fellowship from Aug 2006, and the Faculty Service award serving for two terms as the International CPD Adviser. More recently, she completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Workplace Based Postgrad Medical Education from Edge Hill University (Aug 2018).

Membership of Professional Bodies

UK Faculty of Public Health, Fellowship, 08/2006
UK General Medical Council, Specialist registration (Public Health Medicine), 01/2004
UK Faculty of Public Health, Membership (Part B exam), 03/2003
UK Faculty of Public Health, Diploma (Part A exam), 10/2001
UK General Medical Council, Full registration, 12/2001

Degrees

Top student, MBBS, 1989, University of Khartoum, Sudan, Causes and consequences of birth intervals among Sudanese women, Distinction.
Clinical MD in Community Medicine, 1995, University of Khartoum, Sudan, Family planning as a child survival strategy: Findings from a rural community in Sudan, Distinction.
PhD, Biological Anthropology, 2001, University of Cambridge, UK, Malaria and the growth of children in rural Sudan: A trial of insecticide impregnated bednets, Conferred.
Master of Public Health, 2001, University of Nottingham, UK, Conducting a health impact assessment: The potential and constraints. A literature review and case study of Finningley Airport Health Impact Assessment, Credit.
PG Cert, Workplace Based Postgrad Medical Education, 2018, Edge Hill University, UK, Personal philosophy of teaching, Distinction.

Excellence Awards

Three Clinical Excellence Awards, Salford, Public Health England (2020-23).
Five levels Clinical Excellence Awards, Warrington, Public Health England (2015-19).
International CPD Adviser Service Award, Faculty of Public Health (2013-18).
Clinical Excellence Award for medical leadership, Sheffield, National Health Services (2009).
Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training, UK Medical Royal Colleges (2003).
15 Distinctions and 8 Prizes (1983-89); Lord Kitchener’s Memorial Prize (1989) and 50th Anniversary Prize (1989), University of Khartoum Faculty of Medicine.

Target Participants

Junior professionals embarking on career planning.
Senior professionals in the medical health care services, multidisciplinary clinical or public health related fields.
Multidisciplinary clinicians taking up their first management or leadership position.
Experienced managers in medical health care service and/or government officials.
Retirement planning and contemplating mid-career changes.
Women’s health and youth advocates, NGOs and community grassroots organisations.
Researchers in the field of mental health, sexual health, infant or maternal mortality and morbidity.
Researchers wishing to test a healthcare intervention or audit or evaluation for one of the SDGs.

Benefits for Employers

The course participants will have the opportunity to showcase their role in different fields with their employers. After completion of the course, participants (supported by their tutor with additional fee) will be given the opportunity to write a report describing what they have learnt and what is particularly relevant to their employers. The report will focus on one single perspective or to build a hybrid model that will help their employers to achieve their strategic and tactical goals. This will help reassure the employers of the benefits of the programme and help consolidate managers’ understanding.

Public Health Leadership Development

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