The Ethics of Capacity-building Leadership Across Cultures: A Conversation with Dr. Doug Heimburger

In this conversation, we will discuss leading teams cross-culturally and the challenges involved in empowering “followers” to lead in their own cultural and public health contexts. This conversation will take place in the first part of Professor Hayden’s Ethics and Leadership course.

Doug Heimburger is an American physician and educator working with the Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Heath. For a decade he led education and training programs and his research focuses on nutritionally related non-communicable diseases, including identification of causes of short- and long-term complications and comorbidities of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, with the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania.