The fourteenth edition of Health System through Crisis and Recovery, the Sant'Anna School's higher education course that trains practitioners in health systems management in crisis situations, is now underway

The Health System through Crisis and Recovery course, designed and coordinated by Enrico Pavignani, an affiliated researcher at Scuola Sant'Anna, and Mark Beesley, a nurse and technical consultant, under the scientific responsibility of Emanuele Sommario, professor of International Law at the Sant'Anna School, is now in its fourteenth edition. The training is attended by about fifteen health professionals, public health analysts, and government and international organization officials from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

The Health System through Crisis and Recovery course aims to address the main issues related to the management of health systems in crisis situations (conflict, natural disasters, etc.) by highlighting useful techniques and strategies for sustaining health care in situations of extreme instability and/or scarcity of resources. Among the various topics that will be discussed will be health policy analysis, health policy planning and financing, the difference between formal and informal health services, health care evaluation, human resource management in health care, and assistance to the most vulnerable and needy populations.

The faculty members are all high-level experts, such as Flavia Riccardo, a researcher at the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome; Dorothea Hilhorst, professor of humanitarian studies at the International Institute for Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands; and Harry Jeene, a physician with more than forty years of experience in public health in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

More information about the course is available HERE.