Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute (ALLI)
Albert Luthuli Leadership Platform for Health
BACKGROUND
The ALLP-Health was established as an output of the Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Fellowship. To date ALLP-Health, University of Pretoria (UP) have signed a pioneering memorandum of understanding in 2022 with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa. Housed in the Albert Luthuli Leadership Institute (ALLI), the ALLP-Health works between UP’s Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.
The ALLI-Health builds on the Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership started in 2011. It followed the Luthuli family bequeathing his legacy for transformational leadership training and research to UP. ALLI’s mission is to pursue scholarship, education, and societal engagement – harkening to Luthuli’s early career as a teacher. ALLP-Health is therefore well placed under ALLI.
The ALLP-Health is interested in a world that pursues a more equitable society through health leadership focused on humanity, dignity, equity, and justice – the very qualities that made Albert Luthuli’s public life meaningful.
The ALLP-Health works to address critical needs in health systems through strengthened and distributed leadership to address complex interlinked, ‘wicked’ challenges facing health systems. According to the WHO, the potential to transform health systems in Africa has never been greater. And it demands a new type of leader. This is the work of the ALLP-Health.
VISION
To Reimagine health leadership in Africa
PURPOSE
To deliver on our vision to reimagine health leadership in Africa, our mission is to create a health leadership platform that reports on the current and future state of health leadership research. Our mission is an Africa-led, independent public health ‘think & do platform’ dedicated to the optimisation of African assets to develop and implement relevant and sustainable health leadership in the region.
The Albert Luthuli Leadership Platform for Health (ALLP- Health) is Africa’s preeminent health leadership platform, focused on health and systems leadership as a transformative catalyst and enabler to advance health in complexity. In our pursuit of this, we focus on complex and “wicked” health challenges facing Africa and the world. We convene leading transdisciplinary voices to address the challenges, partner, and co-design relevant solutions, building capability for the continent to address these challenges from within. The ALLP-Health vision is bound to the values and ethos set by Africa’s first black African Nobel Laureate, Albert Luthuli.
MISSION
Health leadership is critical to healthcare; its goals are quality of care, adaptability, & forward-thinking to solve complex challenges. We pursue a more equitable society through health leadership for humanity, dignity, equity and justice. The ALLP-Health addresses critical needs in health systems through robust distributed leadership to address complex interlinked, ‘wicked’ challenges facing health systems. The potential to transform health systems in Africa, according to the WHO, has never been greater. And it demands a new type of leader. This is the work of the ALLP-Health.
