COLUMBIA HEALTH EXECUTIVE EDUCATION: GLOBAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Overview
About Columbia University
Columbia University was established in the year 1754. It is the oldest institution for higher learning in New York, USA. Over the years, Columbia University has achieved top rank due to its perfect blend of research and teaching expertise.
For the last 250 years, the university has served as a global learning centre sustaining their academic supremacy all along. This institution has resonated with the Ivy League culture by inculcating one of the best and advanced learning systems.
About Mailman School of Public Health
The Mailman School is located at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights, New York in a 20-acre campus that provides global leadership & management programs in scientific research, health and medical education, and patient care. It is ranked one of top 5 schools of public health by U.S. News & World Reports.
About the Programme
Columbia Health Executive Education: Global Management Program is an 11-month program in association with the Department of Health Policy & Management at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The objective of this program is to prepare Senior Doctors & Executives be more effective managers and leaders to understand, analyze, and navigate the complex healthcare environment – using lessons learned from Global Healthcare systems and applying them in local scenarios.
It’s our belief that elite executives equipped to address this diverse and evolving system will have the greatest impact. TSW & Columbia University aim to bridge the key strategic, policy, cross-national and operational frameworks that are essential to executives. This Ivy League education is designed for leaders across multiple sectors of healthcare looking to solve India’s most critical problems relating to health and nutrition.
The program provides Doctors & Healthcare Professionals with a rich and diverse on-site and virtual learning environment. It combines cross-national health executives’ system perspectives with critical management tools, interactive workshops, team-based simulations, and personal leadership coaching.
Who Can Attend
- Doctors and Healthcare Professionals keen to pursue a career in management
- Senior executives in functional roles of Leadership and Administration, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Finance or Human Resources
- Entrepreneurs in Healthcare Industry
- Independent Healthcare and Management consultants
Key Benefits
- 1 Learn the best practices of Global Healthcare and apply the lessons from an advanced healthcare system in Indian marketplace
- 2 Be adept at managerial and administrative skills through Prestigious Ivy League education
- 3 Learn how to administer healthcare institutions better and start & operate a hospital or healthcare institute through healthcare management lessons received at Columbia University
- 4 Explore the opportunities underlying in the Healthcare sector through innovative solutions and startup to achieve success and leave a long lasting impact
Advisory Committee

Dr. Nandakumar Jairam
Chairman and Group Medical Director, Columbia Asia Hospitals – India
Former Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery at St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore. Dr. Jairam has served as Medical Director of Mallya Hospital – Bangalore, where he was a Consultant Surgeon for many years. His expertise in Colo-rectal surgery is acquired from Mayo Clinic, USA and St. Mark’s Hospital London. Presently he is the Chairman and Group Medical Director for Columbia Asia Hospitals – India.

Michael Sparer
Chair and Professor of Health Policy and Management at The Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
He studies and writes about the politics of health care, with a particular emphasis on the health insurance and health delivery systems for low-income populations, and the ways in which inter-governmental relations influences policy, both in the U.S. and abroad. He is a two-time winner of the Mailman School’s Student Government Association Teacher of the Year Award, as well as the recipient of a 2010 Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Dr. Devi Shetty
Indian Cardiac Surgeon
Devi Prasad Shetty is an Indian cardiac surgeon. He is chairman and Founder of Narayana Health, a chain of 21 medical centers in India. He has performed over 15,000 heart operations. In 2004 he was awarded the Padma Shri, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2012, for his contribution to the field of affordable healthcare.
Faculty Speak
Curriculum
During the executive program for attaining excellence in the health care, a candidate will learn about the latest management tools and advanced concepts from the world’s renowned faculty at the prestigious Columbia University. This multi modular program will be a blend of face-to-face classroom sessions, LIVE virtual conference, simulation exercises and a capstone project.
Healthcare system will be looked over across the world. This will help the participants in understanding global healthcare policies. The topics introduced in the Policy agenda will be covered, herein. How healthcare institutions are dealing with the new policy topics? What do we know about? What exactly is effective in healthcare and what is not? What are the implications of these policies around the world? These points will help us in understanding the present scenario of the healthcare and overcome the challenges lying within.
On the basis of given performance agenda or the evolving policy, what major strategic choices healthcare leader will need to make? How exactly they should proceed in decision-making? What kind of information do they need to consider these choices? We will use an empathetic approach to help these leaders in making wise choice. We also need to know about the other leaders who have faced these choices across the world. We will learn from them and use our learning to attract better strategic choices.
We will assess the increasing pressure on monitoring while tracking and evaluating the “quality” of health care performance across the world. On the basis of these global metrics, we will learn to monitor, track and evaluate this “quality”. Moreover, we will understand the entire scenario and focus on the essence and perspective of “quality”. The participant will be able to define quality in the most relatable and sensible manner.
Strategic choices and related aspects will be touched upon again in this module. Unlike before, the emphasis will be on organizational choices in this session of module 4. Understanding the organizational choices from the perspective of leaders in the healthcare system will be our chief aim.
You will get a clarity on the constantly evolving Policy agenda, the quality metrics which need to be tracked and organizational goals that need to be addressed. We will develop an understanding of the real-time challenges faced by managers while designing and implementing upon the detailed performance system.
The different types of leadership faced by Indian managers while working on the policy agenda, performance measurement and quality management will be addressed over here. We will take a look across the world for similar instances to know what works in the favor of leaders and what doesn’t.
It is Mailman’s unique software based exercise wherein, you will be applying all the lessons learnt in the classroom in the “real world” work environment. This realistic exercise gives you an exposure to understand the challenges and complexity of competitive and rapidly growing hospital environment.
In order for participants to gain leadership and organizational skills – as the pace of change in healthcare continues to accelerate, they must become adept at navigating the changing marketplace, regulatory, and clinical worlds. HealthSquare Simulation provides an opportunity to experience the challenges of executive leadership and strategic decision-making of a competitive multi-hospital marketplace – a realistic exercise that effectively simulates the complexity and intensity of the evolving hospital environment.
The HealthSquare Simulation, which involves developing and implementing overall institutional strategy, is offered by the Mailman School of Public Health. HealthSquare evaluations reflect the consensus that participants find simulations to be the most powerful learning activities they have experienced. Follow-up studies and surveys reinforce this, particularly with regard to improved strategic decision-making “on-the-job” and teamwork and leadership competencies.
Course Delivery
The program is split over a period of 11 months and includes:
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*course content and timeline subject to change
**online master class (ELECTIVES)
Programme Registration
Applications Open till 30th April 2018
The Admissions Committee begins reviewing applications as soon as they are received. Once the review process has begun, qualified candidates are admitted on a rolling, space-available basis. It is recommended to apply early to for this programme as the seats are limited.
Programme Fee
Course Duration
11 months
Application Fee
USD 125 +GST
Program Fee
USD 22,000 +GST
Faculty Profile
Lawrence Bartlett
BIOGRAPHY
Larry Bartlett is a health economist with 40+ years of experience in conducting health services research, program evaluations, and economic/policy analysis and in providing technical assistance to Federal, State, and local governments and private sector clients on health care-related matters.
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Catherine Foster
BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Foster is on the Board of Trustees at Northwell Health System where she also serves on their quality and credentials committees. Ms. Foster was a senior executive at American Express where she led marketing, business development and strategic planning for various divisions.
Yuna Lee
BIOGRAPHY
Yuna S.H. Lee, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
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Matthew Neidell
BIOGRAPHY
Professor Neidell specializes in environmental, health, and labor economics, with research primarily focused at the intersections of these.
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David Rosenthal
BIOGRAPHY
David Rosenthal, PhD, is the faculty director of the Executive and Full Time Management programs in HPM and the Director of Behavior Science for Columbia University Center for Family and Community Medicine.
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Kai Ruggeri
BIOGRAPHY
Dr Kai Ruggeri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management. Kai joined Columbia from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where he directs the Policy Research Group that he founded in 2013.
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Bhaven Sampat
BIOGRAPHY
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. I received my B.A., M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. (all in economics) from Columbia.
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Michael Sparer
BIOGRAPHY
Michael S. Sparer, PhD, JD, studies and writes about the politics of health care, with a particular emphasis on the health insurance and health delivery systems for low-income populations, and the ways in which inter-governmental relations influences policy, both in the U.S. and abroad.
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Paul Thurman
BIOGRAPHY
Professor Thurman, a Columbia MBA valedictorian, service award winner, and multiple teaching award recipient, has extensive experience helping a variety of governments and corporations realize value from innovative leadership, operations, and technology strategies.
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John Winkleman
BIOGRAPHY
John S. Winkleman teaches Healthcare Marketing and is the director of the Consulting Practice as well as the Thomas P. Ference Health System Simulation. He is also a senior judge for the annual Healthcare Management and Delivery Case Challenge and faculty for Practicum Day.
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