This first residential meeting for Cohort 7 brought together a new group of senior-level health leaders from Germany, Switzerland, and the UK to explore one of the most urgent challenges facing health systems today: how to advance population hea...

The third residential meeting of Sciana Cohort 6 brought Fellows together for an immersive three-day experience dedicated to advancing bold, future-focused leadership in health, care, and wellbeing across Europe.

At a time when public health is more...

This two-day meeting in Copenhagen brought together over 70 Sciana Fellows across all cohorts to explore innovative approaches to public health in Denmark and across the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region.

The event included discussions...

The first meeting of Cohort 6 was designed to introduce the Sciana Challenge, explore future mega-trends related to the Challenge theme, and form Challenge groups to develop a common direction and intention.

Fellows unpacked the concept of personal,...

The final meeting of the Sciana Cohort 5 focused on finalising the Cohort's challenge work and formulating a common message for their cohort challenge topic, "Building a connected and sustainable health ecosystem based on One Health principles a...

The third residential meeting for Cohort 5 offers the Fellows an opportunity to continue working on their Sciana challenge of "Building a connected and sustainable health ecosystem based on One Health principles and approaches." In the previous meeti...

In their final meeting, Cohort 4 concluded their two-year programme by finalising their work around the cohort's Sciana Challenge of building a new social contract for health and wellbeing.

Fellows sought to develop an output of their Sciana experie...

Overview for Sciana Cohort 5

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network was launched in 2017 by the Health Foundation (UK), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar. Sciana bri...

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network was launched in 2017 by the Health Foundation (UK), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar. Sciana brings together each year a new c...

The Sciana Paris meeting will bring together around 60 Sciana Fellows to visit and discuss critical issues in health systems with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the French Ministry of Health. The international me...

Overview for Sciana Cohort 5

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network was launched in 2017 by the Health Foundation (UK), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar. Sciana bri...

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network was launched in 2017 by the Health Foundation (UK), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar. Sciana brings together each year a new c...

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network was launched in 2017 by the Health Foundation (UK), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar. Sciana brings together each year a new c...

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network was launched in 2017 by the Health Foundation (UK), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar. Sciana brings together each year a new c...

Health care is an increasingly complex space to navigate and particularly so for decision makers. The recent COVID19 pandemic further exacerbated the challenges in health care by bringing to the fore additional ethical dilemmas. 

When leaders a...

Leaders  across sectors struggle to keep up with the pace of change. With today’s growing wealth of information and need to rapidly adapt, traditional forms of learning and knowledge exchanges fail to adequately support leaders to act agile in...

Leaders  across sectors struggle to keep up with the pace of change. With today’s growing wealth of information and need to rapidly adapt, traditional forms of learning and knowledge exchanges fail to adequately support leaders to act agile in...

The world of work has shifted dramatically, demanding a new level of Relational Intelligence amongst leaders. Pandemic fatigue, the challenges of collaborating long distance with colleagues and the ongoing invasion of work on the safe haven of home a...

Many studies show that reported happiness levels in highly developed countries do not increase any further with income as measured by GDP. On the other hand, the existing literature also suggests that people are experiencing more and more stress at w...

The same day the Glasgow Climate Pact was agreed, dense smog forced city closures in New Delhi. The heavy air pollution imposes the closing of schools and construction sites. Every 13 minutes, one person dies due to exposure to air pollution. Health ...

The COVID pandemic has tested health and care services to their limit over the past 20 months. It has exposed, and in some cases amplified, the pre-existing fragilities and inequalities within the system. The leadership challenge of the next 5 years ...

Denmark has been considered one of the successful European countries in dealing with the COVID19 pandemic. The analysis of the Danish approach indicates two key success factors: trust and “radical transparency”. In this discussion, Sciana members...

Healthcare systems continue to struggle with the ongoing impact of the pandemic. Health care workers are suffering burnout at record levels and the sustainability of whole systems is under threat. A new approach to leadership and organizational cultu...

This two-part deep dive will support the strategic planning, development and dissemination of written content for the Sciana challenge. This session will be dedicated to planning and development. 

Gerrit Wiesmann, a former long-serving Fin...

A key aspect of adaptive, collaborative leadership for crisis management and a thriving future to come is continuous learning. Adapting to the seemingly insurmountable disruptions of the current pandemics has come with tremendous potential for learni...

There is wide consensus that navigating through the current public health crisis requires a different approach and style to leadership, one which is adaptive, collaborative, and human-centric. However, advocates across different sectors highlight tha...

COVID-19 has placed tremendous demands on current leaders. Navigating through this large-scale disruption has required unprecedented agility to not only respond to what was once considered a health pandemic, but to respond, recover and fundamentally ...

COVID-19 has placed tremendous demands on current leaders. Navigating through this large-scale disruption has required unprecedented agility to not only respond to what was once considered a health pandemic, but to respond, recover and fundamentally ...

The success of women leaders in handling the pandemic has been notable. Their human-centric and collaborative approaches have not only revealed important aspects of crisis management, but also stand as potential hallmarks of a new style of leadership...

COVID-19 has placed tremendous demands on current leaders. Navigating through this large-scale disruption has required unprecedented agility to not only respond to what was once considered a health pandemic, but to respond, recover and fundamentally ...

COVID-19 has placed tremendous demands on current leaders. Navigating through this large-scale disruption has required unprecedented agility to not only respond to what was once considered a health pandemic, but to respond, recover and fundamentally ...

The unprecedented pace and scale of data-driven innovation in science and technology has given health system leaders a powerful set of tools to shape the future of health. However, delivering on the promise of this innovation in advancing predictive,...

COVID-19 has placed tremendous demands on current leaders. Navigating through this large-scale disruption has required unprecedented agility to not only respond to what was once considered a health pandemic, but to respond, recover and fundamentally ...

There is growing consensus that collaborative leadership is critical to crisis management and to building back better. Faced with whole-of-system challenges and much uncertainty, leaders are taking a more integrative approach to achieving change at s...

COVID-19 has placed tremendous demands on current leaders. Navigating through this large-scale disruption has required unprecedented agility to not only respond to what was once considered a health pandemic, but to respond, recover and fundamentally ...

Historically, the European Union has had a narrow health mandate. European health and health care needs have been traditionally handled by EU Member States. However, as exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and antimicrobial resistance, siloed, nation...

The pandemic has triggered a crisis for health, societies, and economies, revealing deep fault lines in planning and decision-making. Conventional approaches to these complex health and social challenges have been siloed and competitive. However, tod...

Given that most hopes of ending the COVID-19 pandemic have been fixed on the development of one or more safe and broadly effective vaccines, our questions at the webinar will include: How is policy around the roll-out of a vaccine, following approval...

The COVID-19 crisis shows no sign yet of abating. A global event of unprecedented scale, it will undoubtedly leave a long-felt impact on health care systems, both in countries that have struggled to contain the pandemic and those that have proven mor...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event of unprecedented scale. To respond to the crisis, assess the extent of infection and allocate resources accordingly, health professionals, policymakers and politicians need access to high quality data. How best...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global event of unprecedented scale. As infection rates have surged, country-wide lockdowns have been enforced, many health care systems have been strained and people across the world are dealing with isolation and uncertai...

In April 2017 the Health Foundation (UK), Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar, launched Sciana: The Health Leaders Network, bringing together for 2017/2018 a first cohort of ou...

The network is for outstanding leaders from across Europe who share a deep commitment to quality, sustainability, universal coverage, and patient and community-centered care, nationally and internationally. Their vision and collaboration, aligned wit...

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network was launched in 2017 by the Health Foundation (UK), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), and the Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar. Sciana brings together each year a new c...

The distinctive name of the network 'Sciana' was created by combining the Esperanto words 'scias' (which means 'to know' and refers to knowledge) and 'sana' (meaning 'healthy') and is inspired by the network's international and interdisciplinary heal...

The Sciana network has up to eighteen members in each cohort, with six members selected by each foundation from the UK, Switzerland and Germany.Members of the network include health policymakers and practitioners, as well as academics, journali...

The Sciana network provides members, initially drawn from the UK, Germany and Switzerland, with space to take inspiration and learning from across the globe, and time to share insights gained from their own experiences with peers, with whom they will...

Members will share a deep commitment to quality, sustainability, universal coverage, and patient and community-centered care, nationally and internationally. Their vision and collaboration, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, is critic...

In April 2017 the Health Foundation (UK), Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar, launched Sciana: The Health Leaders Network, bringing together for 2017/2018 a first cohort of ou...

The Sciana network will provide members with space to take inspiration and learning from across the globe, and time to share insights gained from their own experiences with peers, with whom they will work to address some of the shared challenges we a...

The Health Foundation (UK), Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), Careum Stiftung (Switzerland), in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar have launched Sciana: The Health Leaders Network, which will bring together outstanding leaders in health and he...