Encouraging Research

Combining research with education, the IMHL disseminates its processes and results through a variety of publications, conferences and seminars. While the goal of the IMHL is to create and sustain vital educational activity in its own right, another significant goal is to encourage research and development.

Innovations generated through the program are diffused as widely as possible – potentially to the stage that the IMHL design and philosophy is taken up by other educational institutions and the program becomes a model of leadership development in health organizations worldwide.

This research and development function results in the dissemination of information on four fronts:

• The IMHL publishes research about the program itself as a model of renewed education for practicing health managers.
• While the IMHL classroom provides a forum for discussion on major issues across today's health sector, some program modules run concurrent with international seminars led by leading thinkers in the field.
• IMHL papers and projects capture the richness of participants' experiences and their application to home organizations has resulted in publishable articles and books as well as presentations at congresses.
• A clearinghouse of health management processes, problems, possible solutions and pedagogical ideas is being created, allowing IMHL participants to share their experiences. This clearinghouse will ultimately become a form of "commons" where health leadership ideas and experiences can be exchanged in an ongoing way.

For more details on applied dissemination of the IMHL, please see Outreach, a document prepared by Henry Mintzberg.