#115 Systems thinking for mission hospitals
With Dr Perry Jansen
Mission Hospitals operate in some of the most challenging environments in the world. Sustaining health services in a way that maintains quality while honoring God’s call to serve the poor can seem unattainable.
Prior ICMDA webinars have covered tools and approaches for managing mission hospitals. In this session, we will take the “30,000-foot view” of the complex and dynamic environments we operate in and how we can apply the science of “Systems Thinking” to improve strategies and impact.
Publications
- The Fifth Discipline- Peter Senge
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer- Donella Meadows
- Systems Thinking for Social Change-David Peter Stroh
- Complexity Science in Healthcare: Aspirations, approaches, and accomplishments. A White Paper. Braithwaite et al, Macquarie University (2017)
Videos
- Systems-Thinking: A little film about a big idea. Cabrera Institute (2015)
- Successful international health care reform, Jeffrey Braithwaite.
- Systems Thinking and Complexity in Health: A Short Introduction-ST4CHealth
Courses
Dr Perry Jansen
Dr. Jansen is a family physician and served with SIM in Malawi from 2000-2016. He founded the Malawi non-profit hospital Partners in Hope (PIH), which has grown to be one of the largest providers of HIV treatment in the region as a key training partner with the Ministry of Health and USAID. After realizing his goal of handing PIH over to Malawi leadership, Dr. Jansen attained his MPH, with an emphasis on global health leadership. Dr. Jansen is now Vice President at African Mission Healthcare leading initiatives to strengthen mission hospitals to expand medical education and strengthen indigenous healthcare leadership.
