Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Strengthening Global Health Systems: Policy and Practice
You have explored the key challenges affecting global health systems, including access to healthcare services, system inequalities, and governance issues. You have examined how global health actors and policymakers respond to these challenges through coordinated strategies and reforms. You have analysed real-world barriers to healthcare access at national level and evaluated approaches used to improve equity, efficiency, and sustainability in health systems.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Ricky Kalliecharan
Associate Professor with specialised knowledge and expertise in health policy, planning and management; health sector financing; and capacity development of public health training institutions.
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the concept of a global health system and its relationship with national health systems
- Identify key challenges in the global health systems
- Evaluate key challenges in the global health system
- Identify policy responses from key global health actors to address specific global health systems challenges
- Describe problems of accessing health services at a national level
- Assess global and national responses to increase access to health services, with a particular focus on Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
- Explore challenges in implementing UHC using a case study approach.
Syllabus
- The concept of a global health system.
- How health systems have developed.
- The key challenges for the global health system.
- Global actors and their roles.
- The policy responses to address key challenges.
- Exploration of a major global health system challenge that affects the health systems building block: service delivery.
- Analysis of the factors that facilitate and constrain people from accessing health services at the national level and explore global responses to improve access.
Issued on 31st October 2026
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