Build the skills to drive intergrated care and meaningful health reform
Australia's health system is undergoing rapid change. Leaders across health, social care and policy are being called on to deliver better integration, improve equity, and translate reform into practice.
Integrated Care and Health Reform is a practice-focused microcredential designed for senior leaders who want to strengthen system performance and lead sustainable, evidence-informed reform.
Built around the internationally recognised Pathways to Reform program, this course equips participants with the frameworks, tools and confidence to translate global health innovations into locally relevant solutions.
Why this course?
Health systems often struggle to move from reform intention to real-world impact. This microcredential supports you to:
- Understand the structural barriers to integrated care within the Australian health system
- Learn from international models of integrated care and system reform
- Apply systems thinking and policy learning to local challenges
- Design, implement and evaluate reform initiatives that strengthen collaboration and equity
You will gain practical, context-specific reform plan you can apply within your organisation or system.
What you'll learn
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Analyse gaps in governance, funding, workforce and digital infrastructure
- Translate global integrated care innovations into actionable local policy
- Apply evidence-based frameworks to improve service integration and outcomes
- Build reform strategies that are sustainable, equitable and collaborative
Who should enrol?
This microcredential is designed for professionals working in or with complex health and social care systems, including:
- Health system administrators and governance leaders
- PHN and LHD executives
- Clinicians in leadership roles
- Health and social care service leaders, including NDIS providers
- Senior policymakers
- Public health and health policy academics
- Community and social care leaders
If you are responsible for improving system performance, service integration or population health outcomes, this course is for you.
Course delivery method
- Online (with prior completion of the Pathways to Reform program)
- Total effort: 50 hours (including RPL from Pathways to Reform)
Includes:
- Two interactive small-group online workshops, Tuesday 30 June 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm and Tuesday 28 July 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.
- Guided, practice-based learning activities
- Individual online oral assessment
Learning outcomes
- -Articulate the structural gaps in governance, funding, workforce and digital infrastructure in the Australian health system.
- -Interpret the characteristics of innovations from a range of different contexts that have been successfully translated into ready-to-use policy solutions.
- -Apply policy learning to local challenges for improved integrated care.
Credit and recognition
On completion, participants receive:
-A University-recognised Microcredential
-A digital bagde, a secure credential that verifies learning outcomes and can be shared on platforms like LinkedIn
Additional Information
This microcredential is subsidised for participants who have completed the Pathways to Reform program, supported by the Centre for Healthcare Knowledge and Innovation in partnership with Health North Coast and the International Foundation for Integrated Care Australia. Eligible participants will receive a $500 discount on the course.
Delivered in association with CHKI, a program of Healthy North Coast.
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