CASCADES’ Leadership for Change: Toward Sustainable Health Systems course strengthens capacity for change-oriented health system leadership in the face of profound environmental and sustainability challenges. Through pre-work, four interactive sessions and debriefing opportunities, we interrogate the why and how of incremental, reform-oriented, and transformative change for sustainability in the health sector.
This course is designed to offer Canadian health leaders a new avenue to build knowledge, skills and networks across Canada’s healthcare community to promote and deliver sustainable health systems. It is grounded in the LEADS in a Caring Environment framework (Dickson & Tholl, 2014; 2020), and draws on various leadership and management theories, models, and methods to assess and strengthen relevant leadership capabilities. This course will be most useful for participants who have specific challenges or initiatives that they are working on in their healthcare setting.
As part of CASCADES’ core training offerings, this course is free of cost.
This course is designed for healthcare providers or administrators who are seeking to strengthen their knowledge and leadership capabilities and competencies to advance high quality, low carbon, climate resilient and sustainable health services and systems. In general, therefore, we discourage participation by individuals who are primarily trainees or researchers, and prioritize participants working within care delivery organizations, or associated governance and support organizations. We ask prospective participants to complete a brief statement of interest form to ensure that the course will serve their needs.
The course will be delivered virtually, with asynchronous online content & synchronous sessions. Importantly, there are three core components to the course:
Course materials will be available through an online learning platform (accessible by January 9, 2024).
Fiona A Miller, Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Director, Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health & Sustainable Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario and Director, CASCADES
Arianna Cruz, Strategy & Innovation Lead, CASCADES, on secondment from her role as Regional Strategy and Quality Manager in the Quality and Patient Safety Department at Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC
Mark Cabaj, President, Here to There Consulting, Edmonton, Alberta & Associate, Tamarack Institute
Wendy Nelson, Founder & Project Lead, Vernissage Health Senior Fellow, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Christine Shea, Director, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Program, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro+: This course (one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program) meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for up to 10 Mainpro+ credits.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada – Section 1: This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, approved by Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto for up to a maximum of 10 hours.
Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL): This course allows participants to earn credit toward the Health Leadership Specialty in Sustainable Health Systems as part of the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) Fellowship Select Program.