Create a network of international health leaders equipped for future challenges in health and wellbeing
Improve the health systems in each participating country and beyond, enabling healthy lives and wellbeing for all.
Leading with compassion and collaboratively, committed to improving health, access and coverage for all and ensuring no one is left behind.
A philantropy driven initiative to prepare health leaders for future challenges
| Sciana unites health leaders across country borders to strenghten their collective resilience and support problem solving to future health challenges. Sciana offers time for reflection and collective support to think ahead on the big issues facing our health systems. It is a network supporting cross-country and inter-disciplinary connections, innovation and collaboration. It inspires fellows to grow through experimenting with new approaches, exploring ways of pushing boundaries and building strong alliances. The programme brings fellows together to question their understanding of leadership to foster systems change. It advocates asking uncomfortable questions and gives courage to deliver change where needed. Aligned with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda, Sciana actively contributes to the challenge set out in SDG 3 to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages and SDG 17 to create partnership for the SDG goals. |
Sciana is a system leadership programme and network dedicated to the joint exploration and collective problem-solving to future challanges for health and wellbeing.
Sciana fellows are mid- to senior-level leaders who share a vision for health and wellbeing, desire to learn and collaborate to cooperate, and demonstrate breakthrough thinking.
Sciana delivers a cutting-edge systems leadership programme to support health leaders to collectively tackle emerging, complex health challenges in their local settings. It fosters the exchange of promising practices and cross-country experiences. And, it also encourages fellows to develop strategies for integrating efforts across wider systems for health. The programme seeks to prepare fellows for systems change leadership in three key ways.
Thomas Zeltner has really helped me recognize the need to consider “how” I work now, to ensure I work and lead in a sustainable way, to deliver my role, but also protect my and my staff’s health and well-being.
Discussion within our challenge group during and after our visit was most useful, helped bring a whole new dimension to my thinking about leading transformation.
This is such a wonderful opportunity for busy leaders to take time out, to think with colleagues and to be tested in terms of traditional ideas about leadership. Wonderful!!
The networking opportunity is outstanding. It helped me to enlarge my network and to reach out and access people that I would not have had a direct and informal access before. The sharing of leadership models and other experiences enlarged my perception of leadership and provided me with concrete examples.
The Sciana programme gave me the time to look at myself as [a] leader and to reflect what being a leader means.
Sciana: The Health Leaders Network is a programme supported jointly by the Health Foundation (UK), Careum (CH) and the Bosch Health Campus (DE) in collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar.
