IHF YEL Emerging Leaders workshop

  • Invitational

When:

Monday 19 October

08:00–16:00

Location:

403, 4th floor

A full-day, exclusive workshop for the 2026 cohort of the IHF YEL Emerging Leaders programme, which supports selected emerging healthcare executives to improve their leadership and management skills while fostering international collaboration. The programme started in 2019 and is currently delivered in partnership with Kaiser Permanente. This year, 49 rising leaders from 29 countries and territories are coming together for masterclasses and group work addressing key global healthcare topics.

Learn more about the YEL programme, the 2026 cohort, and how you can support one (or more) YEL candidate to attend Congress here.

  • Invitational

When:

Monday 19 October

08:00–16:00

Location:

403, 4th floor

Facilitators

Prof. J. Antônio Cirino

Director of Education and Development, Agir, Brazil

Director of Education and Development at Agir (Brazil). Communicologist, quality manager, board member, professor and health researcher. Master, PhD and postdoc in Communication at the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain). Specialization in Executive Leadership in Healthcare at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Member of the Steering Committee of the Young Executive Leaders of International Hospital Federation (IHF) YEL Alumni. Member of the Center for Studies in Communication, History and Health (NECHS-UFRJ/Fiocruz). Specialist in Project Management and certified as Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma. Author of the book “Management of Hospital Communication”, Scientific Coordinator of the Hospital Manager’s Manual (Brazilian Hospital Federation – FBH) – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Volumes, and organizer of the works “Health Services Accreditation Strategies” and “Simplifying Quality and Safety in Healthcare”. Assistant editor of the Electronic Journal of Communication, Information and Innovation in Health (Reciis/Fiocruz).

Sessions

IHF YEL Emerging Leaders workshop

  • Invitational

When: Monday 19 October | 08:00–16:00

Location: 403, 4th floor

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