Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity

LEADERSHIP APPROACH

At AFHE, leadership is about ‘accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty’. Applying a community organizing framework, leadership topics and practices include:

• Coaching

• Relationship building

• Power analysis

• Establishing the conditions for effective teams

CONVENINGS

Convenings are intensive learning experiences that include lectures, site visits, networking, and cultural and social activities.

• Developing narrative skills

• Delegation, accountability and participative management

Onlinelearningmodulestakeplacebiweeklyand developknowledgeandskillsthroughouttheyear.

LEARNINGMODULES

INITIAL CONVENING MID-YEAR CONVENING

Explores global health equity with a focus on the experience of low and middle income countries.

Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity are committed to action to address life-limiting disparities in health. The program brings together passionate individuals with different backgrounds to learn from one another and collaborate on solutions.

Since the problems of health equity are much larger than any one community or nation can address alone, or in the short term, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity are lifelong fellows. After the fellowship year, graduates join a global community of leaders supported by the Atlantic Institute to make a difference locally and globally.

COMMUNITY & COLLABORATION CONVENING

Brings together fellowship graduates to create opportunities for community building, ongoing learning and collaboration.

Emphasizes reflection on the year’s personal and professional growth, focuses on skill building for long-term success after the fellowship year concludes.

Provides an opportunity for the diverse cohort to develop a shared knowledge base and identity. It marks the beginning of the year-long fellowship journey.

COACHINGAND MENTORSHIP

HEALTH EQUITY APPROACH

The AFHE Health Equity curriculum covers a wide range of topics and includes perspectives from high, middle and low income countries. Since fellows have different expertise, peer learning and knowledge exchange is an important part of the program.

• Maternal Mortality & Inequity

• Child Health, Poverty & Development

• Mental Health

• Disability & Health

• Racial Equity & Health

• Rural Health Inequity

• Health Finance & Data

• Elderly Health & Healthcare