A photo of Rudolf Blankart at a Sciana Network in-person residential meeting A photo of Rudolf Blankart at a Sciana Network in-person residential meeting

Fellows in Focus: April 2024

02 May 2024

Updates concerning Sciana Fellows in April 2024

Effective antibiotics for the Swiss health care system: today and in the future

Rudolf Blankart (Cohort 5) has co-authored a white paper that presents a proposal for increasing the availability of new antibiotics in Switzerland, particularly those needed to treat multidrug-resistant infections.

Building a connected and sustainable health system

Adrian Jonas (Cohort 5) explores leadership, his Sciana experience to date, and his hopes for the future.

Finding purpose, motivation, and dealing with uncertainty

Andy Fischer (Cohort 4) reflects on Medgate, his “helicopter view” of healthcare, and leadership.

Creating a culture of cooperation and sustainable organisations

Yvonne Gilli (Cohort 3) discusses her vision for health leadership, her Sciana experience, and changes she would like to see in health care in Switzerland.

The challenge of scaling the best practice model

Marc Augustin (Cohort 4) investigates the difficulties behind scaling projects and the skills required by leaders when seeking innovation.

Gesundheitskompetenz in Zeiten der Infodemie: Navigieren zwischen Fakten und Fiktion (Health literacy in times of an infodemic: Navigating between facts and fiction)

Listen to the Careum podcast to hear Saskia De Gani (Cohort 5) and Stefan Markun talk about the importance of health literacy in times of information overload. 

Unterstützung in der Polykrise: Die Rolle der Gesundheitskompetenz in einer vernetzten Welt  (Support in the polycrisis: The role of health literacy in a networked world)

Saskia De Gani (Cohort 5) also wrote a blog for Careum on the subject of health literacy and the "polycrisis" we find ourselves in.

Meet the Partners

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.