Knowledge leader and experts
The foundations of HEAD are represented by a multidisciplinary team, characterized by a broad portfolio of competencies.
The managerial, legal, and economic skills have been combined with expertise in public health and healthcare management.
Therefore, HEAD relies on a heterogeneous faculty, organized around key research, consulting, and training topics. Below is the list of topics and the respective knowledge leader (KL) who leads their development:
1. Governance, Strategy & Leadership (KL Prof. Federico Lega)
Governance of the healthcare and welfare sector, industry-NHS relations, institutional frameworks and sector planning, system, SSR, and company, strategic planning and control, organizational development, and strategic management at the company level.
Internal knowledge specialists: Governance and institutional frameworks – Prof. Paola Mattei.
2. Healthcare Economics (KL Prof. Carlo Fiorio)
System and sector analysis, evaluation of healthcare policies, dynamics and funding mechanisms, support for policy-making, big data management, and applied statistics.
Internal knowledge specialists: Profs. Massimiliano Bratti, Veronica Grembi, Silvia Salini, Stefano Iacus.
3. Public Health, Clinical Risk & Epidemiology (KL Prof. Francesco Auxilia)
Clinical governance, measurement and evaluation of clinical outcomes, risk management, epidemiology, and healthcare flows, hospital logistics.
4. Quality & Healthcare Technology (KL Prof. Silvana Castaldi)
HTA and Hospital-Based HTA, technological innovation management, tools and processes for improving quality and appropriateness, accreditation management, and privacy management.
5. Healthcare Law & Public Labor (KL Prof. Alessandro Boscati)
Evolution and regulatory dynamics of the system and organization, individual and organizational professional responsibility, management profiles, management of labor relations, contracts, and labor law.
6. Planning & Control, Accounting & Finance (KL Prof. Francesco Spano)
Planning and control, company accounting systems, cost and management accounting, corporate finance, extraordinary operations, business valuation.
7. People & Organization (KL Prof. Luca Solari)
People management (selection, development, retention), institutional and organizational change management, multidisciplinary and multiprofessional teamwork, networks, patient engagement, and organizational well-being, conflict management.
Internal knowledge specialists:
– Organizational well-being and patient engagement: Prof. Chiara Guglielmetti
– Personnel evaluation, personnel policies, labor contracts: Prof. Renato Ruffini.
8. Processes & Operations Management (KL Prof. Marta Marsilio)
Value-based healthcare, patient flow logistics and supply chain, operations management, care pathways, and patient management.
9. Performance & Structure (KL Prof. Anna Prenestini)
Control systems and performance management, project management, organizational innovation, regulations and organizational plans, company actions, organizational innovation, networks.
10. Forensic Medicine (KL Prof. Umberto Genovese)
Corporate risks, prevention and safety, quality, and responsibility.