Building High-Value Health Systems: Transforming Type 1 Diabetes Healthcare

Overview

The Global Collaborative for Changing Diabetes in Children (GC-CDiC) course equips clinicians, health leaders, and innovators to transform care for children and adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). Eight T1D modules provide participants with the foundational skills, concepts and frameworks to critically discuss, examine, and engage in the Global T1D cohort study, high-value health systems, research ethics, epidemiology, biostatistics and data analysis, decision science, management of complex research projects, and evidence dissemination and translation. These core modules anchor an expanding suite of applied clinical modules that draw on provider experience from GC-CDiC collaborating countries by leading clinicians. All content is designed to foster inclusive participation in, and collaboration around, the GC-CDiC global cohort study—the world’s largest longitudinal study of pediatric T1D.

Key Details

Application status	Open – rolling admissions
Format	100% online; 8 self-paced micro-sessions with applied exercises
Location	Virtual (hosted on the HHI Learning Management System)
Fee	No charge (programme fully sponsored)
Apply	Submit the short form at hsi-lab.org/gcdic-apply

Teaching Team

Principal Investigator and Project Director

Prof. Rifat Atun, MBBS MBA DIC FRCGP FFPH FRCP

Professor of Global Health Systems

Vice Dean, Non-Degree Education and Innovation

Director, Health Systems Innovation La

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Course Director

Dr Che L Reddy, MBChB, MPH

Associate Director, Innovation and Translation, Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard University

Instructional Design Directors

Rodger LeGrand, MFA

Senior Program Manager, Humanitarian Academy Education, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University

William Wang, MBA

Program Manager, Humanitarian Academy Education, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University

Course Faculty

Module 1: The Global Type 1 Diabetes Cohort Study

Dr Jake Figi, MBBS, MPH

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and GC-CDiC Project Lead

Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard University

Module 2: Building High-Value Health Systems

Che L. Reddy, MBChB, MPH

Associate Director, Innovation and Translation; Research Associate

Health Systems Innovation Lab, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Module 3: Research Ethics

Nour Sharara, MPH

Senior Program Manager, GC-CDiC

Health Systems Innovation Lab

Module 4: Research Management

Dorit Talia Stein, PhD

Researcher

Health Systems Innovation Lab

Module 5: Working with Health Data

Caroline A. Bulstra, DVM, MHSc, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Head of Communications & Partnerships

Health Systems Innovation Lab

Module 6: Fundamentals of Epidemiology

Dr Jake Figi, MBBS, MPH

Postdoctoral Research Fellow; GC-CDiC Project Lead

Health Systems Innovation Lab

Module 7: Health Systems Modeling

Zachary J. Ward, MPH, PhD

Associate Director, Research; Assistant Professor of Health Decision Science

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Module 8: Communicating Research

Anne C. Bischops, MD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP)

Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Why Enroll?

Evidence-based, practitioner-focused learning anchored in health systems change management and value creation
Direct alignment with the GC-CDiC global cohort study, enabling participants to engage in collaborative interdisciplinary research, benefit from shared data solutions, and apply findings to enhance value in T1D care delivery
Flexible, no-cost format designed for busy professionals

Join a global learning community working to change the future of diabetes care.