SPECIAL SESSION: The Institutes for Global Healthcare Leadership

Description/Overview: Purpose: Global health is in transition, with ever-changing influences, directions, and expanding stakeholders. Healthcare leaders need access to the best ways to navigate this transition. Local, regional, and international healthcare leaders of tomorrow must build teams, identify challenges, invent solutions, and set a shared vision in order to sustain long-term healthcare improvements and address the varying needs of the world’s populations. Methods: The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) has a rich history of developing nurse leaders, with a variety of leadership programs to prepare future leaders in professional nursing for positions in practice, education, research, administration, and healthcare policy. To continue efforts to advance global health and develop innovative global leaders, the STTI Institutes for Global Healthcare Leadership have been developed, with separate Institutes for both emerging and expert leaders. These Institutes will prepare healthcare leaders to effectively work in and/or lead major public health departments, public or private organizations, and global programs and initiatives, thereby directly and indirectly improving the health of people worldwide. Results: The Emerging Global Leader Institute is designed to prepare globally-aware healthcare leaders to successfully participate in global healthcare ventures and networking; become a global thought and practice leader, locally, and regionally; provide local and regional consultation to effectively meet dynamic contemporary global healthcare needs; and view healthcare issues from a global perspective. The Expert Global Leader Institute is intended to prepare experienced global healthcare leaders to be global thought and practice leaders nationally and globally; successfully, lead, collaborate and participate in global healthcare ventures; assume and effectively meet the global demands of critical healthcare leadership positions within their countries; and provide national and global consultation to effectively meet dynamic contemporary global healthcare needs. Conclusion: This presentation will describe the leadership framework and intended outcomes for the STTI Institutes for Global Healthcare Leadership. As healthcare professionals plan for a future global healthcare delivery system, STTI will play a significant role in the preparation of healthcare leaders, allowing them to better engage stakeholders, mobilize resources, and govern effectively.