Leadership hubs as a partnership model

Sunday, April 22, 2012
C: Adanech Kidanemariam Hall (Millennium Hall)
Dan Owino Kaseje Great Lakes University of Kisumu, Kenya
Mariam Louise Walusimbi Jinja Hospital, Uganda
Amy Bender University of Toronto, Canada
The establishment of leadership hubs in each participating country has yielded key learnings about how to establish these hubs, what processes of engagement are needed, what capacity-building approaches are required, and what advisory structures and supports are essential for their evolution/maturation and sustainability. The leadership hubs provide mechanisms and opportunities for deliberative dialogue, capacity-building, and partnerships among researchers and research-users.

Learning Objectives: • To examine leadership hubs as a partnership model for change to address clinical and community care gaps in lower- and middle-income countries; • To identify and consider how the leadership hub model might be scaled-up to address HIV and AIDS and other health priorities; and, • To discuss the type of institutional support and capacity-building efforts required for nurses to lead research and evaluation of change models.