MBA healthcare management brochure

MBA in Healthcare Management
Contents
From the Dean
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From the Institute Director
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Introduction
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Program Benefits and Outcomes
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Mode of Delivery
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Program Structure
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For Who
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Entry Requirements
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How to Apply
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A Truly Transformational Journey
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Faculty
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Advisory Board
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From the Dean
From the Institute of
Healthcare Director
From the Academic
Director
Dr. George Njenga
Dean
Strathmore Business School
Dr. Ben Ngoye
Institute of Healthcare Director
Strathmore Business School
Felix A. Olale, M.D, Ph.D.
Academic Director
Strathmore Business School
There is a responsibility and an
imperative for those of us who want to
take the reins of leadership to conform
to best practices in all spheres of
healthcare. In our endevour to
transform leaders in Africa, Strathmore
Business School (SBS) is priviledged to
have this opportunity to make a
significant impact in transforming
leaders.
While healthcare facilities are often
managed by healthcare practitioners,
the full range of management and
leadership skills is neither taught as
part of the in-service undergraduate
programs, nor is it necessarily acquired
by experience.
Welcome to the SBS MBA in Healthcare
Management!
At a time when the world and Africa
face extraordinary challenges,
Strathmore Business School’s mission
to develop transformative business
leaders is even more relevant. The
bewildering rate of change increases
the demand for great ethical leaders
with a passion for excellence who will
make wise decisions that balance
short-term considerations with the
achievement of long-term objectives.
Through the MBA in Healthcare
Management program, we will strive to
generate a greater demand for
advanced and extensive competencies
to support leadership.
The aim of the Healthcare Institute and
indeed the SBS MBA in Healthcare
Management and the Healthcare
Institute is to improve professional
competence of healthcare managers
by developing and enhancing their
general technical, leadership and
management skills.
This particular program brings
together a unique blend of academic
and industry experts, and practitioners
from a wide array of global and
national healthcare systems and
institutions.
We look forward to welcoming you as
part of this years’ class and assure you
of transformative learning in a world
class environment.
By use of international & local faculty,
case teaching methodology and
transformative one-on-one interaction,
we will provide a conducive
environment and networks that offer
long term benefits.
You are joining the program at a
pivotal time for healthcare in Africa. In
the next 10 years, Africa’s economies
are projected to experience fast
growth, rivaled only by Asia. These
rising economies will be accompanied
by an expanding consumer base
demanding significant investment in
both private and public health
expenditure. Yet, several constraints
hamper this much needed investment.
The most important challenge is,
perhaps, human capital. Developing
the right leaders and managers
enables solutions that can catalyze
broad changes and drive significant
impact. This noble goal is what we
aspire to achieve with our Program.
Our faculty is comprised of renowned
scholars in every facet of healthcare
management and our curriculum uses
the latest learning and research tools.
Your experience will be built from
global best practices, but will also be
tailored for the context in which you
work and live. By joining the MBA
Program in Healthcare Management,
you have a chance to make a
difference.
We are excited to have you join the
program and we look forward to an
impactful journey together as we strive
to improve the management of
healthcare across Africa.
We invite you to share in our dream.
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Introduction
Program Benefits and Outcomes
The healthcare industry is one of the most diverse and
dynamic industries in the world. Access to healthcare
on the other hand is a right under many constitutions
around the world, Kenya and East Africa included, and
indeed its effective provision is dependent on the
existence of proactive policy and legislative framework, infrastructure, demographics, epidemiological
factors among others.
By the end of the course, the students will have
gained a firm understanding of current management concepts and be able to:
• Critically assess health systems and health care
structures in terms of their processes,
functionalities, etc.
• Apply core principles of management in the
healthcare setting.
• Derive an ethics framework or critically assess the
ethical situation inherent in any set of
circumstances in healthcare management.
• Operate within prevailing legal frameworks in
healthcare and critically assess existing policy and
potential new policy.
• Conceive and design research protocols and other
studies that will provide insight into best practices
and the measurement of outcomes of managerial
strategies.
• Build a personal and professional network with
like-minded professionals.
Its efficient provision is however more dependent on
the size and quality of its healthcare workforce.
Whereas there is a lack of frontline and specialist
medical personnel, there is also an attendant lack of a
professional class of healthcare managers. Indeed
many National Health Sector Strategic Plans recognise
weak management systems as one of the factors
contributing to the decline of the health status of their
populations.
The Healthcare Management specialization in the
Strathmore Business School MBA program is designed
for students with a personal career commitment to
improving the delivery of healthcare services and the
development of related sectors, such as insurance and
pharmaceuticals, for the African society. Its curriculum
has been designed to address continent-wide
practices and needs.
Graduates of the SBS MBA in Healthcare Management
will have the academic grounding needed to move
throughout health-related industries at different
junctures of their career, and more importantly, will
have life-long skills to respond to the fundamental
changes that characterize African health care.
Mode of Delivery
The program will run for 6 semesters over a 30 month
period. The total course loading will be eighteen (18)
course units plus a dissertation.
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Program Structure
Core Healthcare
Management Courses
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Financial and Managerial Accounting in Healthcare Organisations
Healthcare Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management
Healthcare Management Information Systems
Quantitative Analysis and Statistics for Healthcare Management
Organizational Behaviour and Change Management in Healthcare Organisations
Strategic Management in Healthcare Organisations
Managerial Health Economics
Research Methods in Healthcare Management
Marketing Management for Healthcare Enterprises
Management Communications and Media Relations in the Healthcare
Environment
• Decision Analysis for Healthcare Managers
Healthcare Management
& Leadership Enhancement • Healthcare Organization Ethics and Governance
Courses
Advanced Healthcare
Management Courses
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National Public and Private Healthcare Systems
Managing Healthcare Human Resources
Managing for Quality Patient Care and Eﬃcient Operations
Financial Management of Healthcare Organisations
Healthcare Law and Policy
Healthcare Financing and Health Equity
Introductory Non-Credit
Courses
• Introduction to Current Issues in Health Services
• Introduction to Current Issues in Public Health and Policy
Dissertation
Optional Field Visit to South Africa and/or India or other appropriate country
For Who
How to Apply
Specialists and managers from Kenya, Africa and
beyond who are pursuing a career in health services
management and who wish to acquire or enhance
their professional skills.
Application forms are available at the SBS office or can be
downloaded from www.sbs.ac.ke. Send the completed
application form with your CV, two reference letters (one
oﬃcial and one personal/academic), copies of your degree
certificates and transcripts and 3 passport size photographs to [email protected].
Entry Requirements
You may also drop your fully completed application form
at our offices.
• University Degree – First Class or Second Upper
• 3 years professional experience
• Must pass Graduate Entrance Exam
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A Truly Transformational Journey
The SBS MBA in Healthcare Management holds great
value for you, who needs the knowledge inherent only
in an MBA. Engage with us towards a truly
transformative journey.
A Flexible Learning Experience
The SBS MBA in Healthcare enables you to obtain a
full-time learning experience with your lecturers and
engage with likeminded peers and participants in a
close-knit environment, which increases your networking and knowledge acquisition.
Global Presence
Strategic alliances with the world’s top business schools
in the program delivery, adds to the exposure you will
gain as you interact with fellow participants from these
business schools. This will give you global thinking even
as you engage with top minds from the global business
arena and the respective faculty.
Group discussions are an invaluable source of shared
ideas and relevant knowledge that you can immediately
apply in your business and see transformative results.
The environment and the opportunity to have full-time
learning will grow your network base for success.
Build Successful Networks
Our faculty has been expertly trained to deliver the
case study method, ensuring that you fully grasp the
concepts that will drive you to implement new learning
which affect the way you work as an executive. The
case study method is a reflective educational innovation that allows you to understand business challenges
better and apply well-informed decisions towards
addressing them.
Database of Applied Knowledge
Our faculty body constitutes experts in various fields
of specialization relevant to the successful delivery of
the MBA in Healthcare Management. Sourced from
various world-class business schools as well as our very
own local equivalents, the lecturers exude a passion to
deliver a truly transformative journey that will leave you
challenged to implement change in the place you
operate in society.
International Faculty
They are expertly trained to deliver the case study
method, group discussions and business simulation
games, which collectively create the ideal
environment to make you a global trailblazer.
World-Class Facilities
SBS ultra-modern facilities have been benchmarked
against the world’s top business schools, to deliver a
rich and holistic learning experience like no other in
Africa. The facilities have been built aligning with the
conservation of energy requirements, hence making it
a green building, with the intention of acquiring the
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) for green buildings.
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Academic Director
Advisory Board
Dr. Felix Olale
Healthcare Management
Strathmore Business School
Rt. Hon. Lynda Chalker
Baroness Chalker of Wallesley Former
U.K. Minister of State for Overseas
Development, Former Member of
Parliament London, England
Faculty
Dr. James B McFie
Financial and Managerial
Accounting,
Strathmore University
Dr. Edward Mungai
Innovations, Corporate
Entrepreneurship,
Research Methods
Strathmore Business School
Prof Rama Velamuri
Entrepreneurship
IESE Business School
Dr. Freddie Acosta
Information Technology,
Innovations
Management
Strathmore Business School
Dr. Joseph Sevilla
Information Technology
Strathmore University
Dr Charles Sotz
Business Ethics, Leadership and
Organizational Behavior
Strathmore University
Dr Franca Ovadje
OB, Managing People and
Performance,
Change Management
Lagos Business School
Dr Sandra Idrovo-Carlier
Managing People in
Organizations
INALDE Business School
Dr Eileen Kwesiga
OB, Managing Change
Bryant Univ, Rhode Is.
Prof Ruth Kiraka
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Strathmore University
Dr Fred Ogolla
Strategic Management,
Competitive Strategy,
Global Business Strategy
Strathmore Business School
Dr. Jonathan Kolstad
Health Care Economics
Wharton School
Dr. Christopher Forrest
Health Research/Primary Care
Wharton School
Prof. Terry Ryan
Former Economic Secretary, Kenya
Ministry of Finance Director, African
Centre for Economic Growth Chairman,
Strathmore University Governance
Council Professor of Economics, Strathmore
University Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Thani Jambalingam
Healthcare Marketing
St. Joseph's University
Prof. John Odhiambo
Vice Chancellor and Professor of
Mathematics and Statistics, Strathmore
University Nairobi, Kenya
Prof. Xavier Santomá
Professor of Financial Management, IESE
Business School University of Navarra Barcelona, Spain
Dr. John Muriithi
Marketing
Strathmore University
Prof Luis Renart
Marketing
IESE Business School
Prof. Lluis Renart
Professor of Marketing, IESE Business
School University of Navarra - Barcelona,
Spain
Dr Monica Kerrets-Makau
People and Performance &
Strategic Management
Strathmore University
Prof Stephen Sammut
Healthcare Management
Wharton School, Philadelphia
Dr. Pierantonio Russo
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery/QC
Temple University
Dr. Cyrus Engineer
Hospital Management/QC
Johns Hopkins University
Prof. Michael Porter
Author and Management Consultant
Founder, Institute for Strategy &
Competitiveness, Harvard Business
School - Boston, USA
Francis Okello
Chairman, Barclays Bank of Kenya Ltd.
Executive Director, Legal and Corporate
Affairs - Industrial Promotion Services
Group of Companies, Nairobi, Kenya
Patricia Ithau
Managing Director,
L’Oreal East Africa
Prof Magda Rosenmoller
Health Systems, Quality
IESE Business School
Zeph Mbugua
Chairman,
TransCentury Limited
Dr. Reuben Marwanga
Operations Management
Strathmore University
Kellen Kariuki
Senior HR Officer,
Africa & Middle East, Citigroup
Dr. Arnold Rosoff
Health Care Law and Policy
Wharton School, Philadelphia
Prof. Mark Pauly
Health Economics and
Insurance
Wharton School, Philadelphia
Sunny Bindra
Management Consultant,
Sunwords
Dr. Edward Mungai
Advisor to the Dean,
Strathmore Business School
Dr. George Njenga
DVC - Research and Quality Assurance,
Strathmore University,
Dean,
Strathmore Business School
Dr Robert Mudida
Managerial Economics
Strathmore Business School
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