Now in its fourth year, the Global Health Effectiveness program at Harvard has brought together 43 professionals from 11 countries who are participating in a course in epidemiology, a seminar in global health management, and a case-based course on principles of global health delivery. The program teaches health professionals the major concepts and skills essential for delivering value-based health care in their respective positions.

I pulled Rowan Gillies – a medical doctor from Australia trained in plastic and reconstructive surgery, out of the management seminar to ask him a few questions about how the course has gone for him.

Gillies is part of the first cohort of Paul Farmer Global Surgery Clinical Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and has worked in various countries with Médecins Sans Frontières and was president of their international council from 2004 to 2006.