By Patrick Ochei
THE Chief of Staff to the Distinguished Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District in the National Assembly and immediate past SSA to Delta State Governor on Health Monitoring, Dr Michael Nwoko has graduated from the Safety, Quality, Informatics and Leadership (SQIL) program of the Harvard Medical School in Boston Massachusetts, United States of America on August 2, 2024, thereby giving him the leverage of joining a cohort of Global Healthcare Professionals and leaders in mainstreaming a health system that works for the world.
The program was designed to provide the tools needed to become a global leader in healthcare delivery and help leaders effect positive changes by learning to turn patient data into actionable and transformable knowledge.
Judging from Dr Nwoko’s resilient and inquisitive nature, and of course, his impeccable track records under the health ministry of Delta State, it is expected that he would quickly align with other cohorts to form an effective network required for cross fertilization of ideas and knowledge from the program, with a view to attaining universal health coverage and ensuring a global resilient health system that can effectively combat future pandemics, and therefore guarantee a better world for all.
Arousing our curiosity from the news of his graduation at Harvard’s Medical School, we reached out to him in a chat to get his feelings on this rare feat in pursuit of his continuous professional development.
In his well articulated response however, he alluded his reason to the need to build sufficient capacity for the future, in order to continue to upgrade his knowledge in line with the dynamics of a healthcare system that is currently predicated on digital technology.
In his words, “There is no gainsaying the fact that the robust knowledge gained and acquired in the integrated and unique program would help me continue in no small measures to engender a sustainable and resilient health system as well as learning the health systems in Delta State and Nigeria at large, using the SQIL model to advance any course of action in health delivery.
“It is my advice to all members of the cohort to continue to interact and brainstorm going forward, in the interest of contributing in service to the health needs of our various societies”, Dr Nwoko posited.
