Harvard University homepage
HARVARD.EDU

Category: Country

Public Leadership Through Crisis 13: Tolbert Nyenswah on leading through Liberia’s Ebola epidemic

written by Matt Andrews Tolbert Nyenswah is a Senior Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2014 he was the head of the Liberian Incident  Management  System (IMS), leading the operational aspects of the government’s response to the Ebola epidemic. Following this, he led the establishment of Liberia’s First National…Continue Reading Public Leadership Through Crisis 13: Tolbert Nyenswah on leading through Liberia’s Ebola epidemic

Public Leadership Through Crisis 11: Reorganizing to address the crisis

written by Matt Andrews I was on a call two days ago with a former student who is now deeply involved in his country’s Covid-19 crisis response. He said something like the following: “Our  government  is not set up to respond to this; there are multiple challenges coming at us all at once, requiring multiple…Continue Reading Public Leadership Through Crisis 11: Reorganizing to address the crisis

Coronavirus and behaviour: Why leaders need better ‘risk communication’

Guest blog written by Peter Harrington Last week I wrote a post on how the Coronavirus pandemic, like Ebola, needs to be understood as a complex adaptive problem which requires mass learning to solve. In this post I want to focus in on one area of that learning – the behaviour change required to stop transmission,…Continue Reading Coronavirus and behaviour: Why leaders need better ‘risk communication’

Seeing Pandemics as Complex Adaptive Problems

Guest blog written by Peter Harrington As the world grapples with the first truly global pandemic, a crucial struggle is emerging between different ways of seeing the current coronavirus outbreak. On the one hand, it is a virus that medical science can tell us how to combat. On the other hand, it is a complex…Continue Reading Seeing Pandemics as Complex Adaptive Problems

Enhancing the employability of young people in Guinea

Guest blog written by Thierno lliassa Balde The Guinean tertiary education and Technical Education and Professional Training (TVET) system is dominated by programs that do not meet the needs of the labor market. Inappropriate orientation of training is a major cause of programs’ lack of relevance to business requirements. The system lacks scientific, technical, and…Continue Reading Enhancing the employability of young people in Guinea

Finding Family through Process Improvement in the U.S.

Guest blog written by Maggie Jones Trey’s words hung in the air. Would you like to go to Harvard? A million thoughts ran through my head as I watched the unsuspecting traffic pass outside my office. Of course I wanted to go. I had to go. As soon as “yes” stumbled out of my mouth…Continue Reading Finding Family through Process Improvement in the U.S.

Motivation Sustains Passion the PDIA way

Guest blog written by Upamanyu Basu I am a career bureaucrat from India and my job responsibilities have always revolved around implementing public policy – whether in my postings in my parent department i.e. Income tax Department or in my secondments to the Ministry of Human Resource Development and now in the Ministry of Fisheries,…Continue Reading Motivation Sustains Passion the PDIA way

The Legitimacy of Performance and Problem Oriented Institutional Development in Ethiopia

Guest blog written by Etambuyu A Gundersen I had very high expectations of the course and what I was going to get out of it in terms of gaining not only new knowledge but also important skills in policy implementation that would assist me in my job. The course went above and beyond my expectations….Continue Reading The Legitimacy of Performance and Problem Oriented Institutional Development in Ethiopia