I believe in leadership that focuses on collaboration, connections and compassion. My vision is for health systems to encourage and utilise diverse and rich networks at regional, national and international level to ensure health and well being for everyone in society.
As CFPO I work on behalf of the three foundation partners, developing and implementing the network strategy within and beyond SCIANA.
Louise Baker-Schuster is Chief Foundation Partners' Officer (CFPO) for SCIANA and a Senior Project Manager at the Robert Bosch Institute for Innovative Health at the Bosch Health Campus. Her career has led her down a number of different paths including a German degree at Liverpool University (UK) and an MA in European Studies at the RWTH Aachen (DE). She moved to Brussels in 2002 and worked for the British Council before taking up a post at the European Commission in DG Education in Culture. Louise decided to return to Germany and joined the Science Department at the Robert Bosch Stiftung in 2007, leading programmes with the aim of strengthening ties between schools, science, and universities before transferring to the Health Department in 2014 (this moved to the BHC in 2022). Since then, she has been responsible for several national and international projects focusing on leadership and inter-professional collaboration in health and health care, such as the European Palliative Care Academy (EUPCA). She was also actively involved in introducing the concept of Community Health Nursing into the German Health System. In her role for SCIANA she is responsible for managing the network's overall resources and operations as well as being the person who connects the dots between all our partners and stakeholders such as the OECD and Charité, our 90+ fellows and the Sciana team at SGS.