Building upon the distinguished legacy of Yale School of Nursing, the Planetary Health Leadership Program integrates sustainability, health equity, and meaningful global partnership engagement.
Beyond leadership development, the program strengthens Yale’s global collaborations, expands its contributions to planetary health education, and reinforces YSN’s emerging role as a leader in innovation across nursing and health systems.
The program is structured as an 8-week immersive journey, with each week built around a thematic focus that progressively deepens leadership practice. Every week integrates live sessions, asynchronous learning, and a capstone milestone—ensuring that participants are not just learning concepts but applying them in real time to a leadership challenge of their own choosing.
Fully virtual, synchronous + asynchronous
Approximately 5–7 hours/week, including:
Certificate from Yale University
Foundations of Global & Planetary Health Leadership
Apply inclusive leadership principles to core planetary health concepts and their implications for healthcare leadership practice.
Health Equity & Sustainability in Health
Diagnose structural inequities and environmental impacts using systems-thinking and sustainability frameworks to identify leadership levers for institutional change.
Global Partnerships & Collaboration
Develop strategies for effective interprofessional collaboration, health diplomacy, and global partnership-building in diverse contexts.
Implementation Science
Arts, Space & Giving Grace
Creative expression and reflective practice as tools for personal and organizational transformation, including burnout, medical humanities, and holistic wellbeing.
AI, Chronic Diseases & Environmental Health
AI-driven health solutions, chronic disease prevention, and the environmental health impacts of technology—with a focus on ethics and equity.
Mental Health, Well-being & Sustainable Leadership
Sustainable impact and leadership identity: individual and collective effectiveness, mental health, influence, persuasion, and decision-making.
Adaptive Thematic Exploration & Capstone Showcase
Examine political determinants of health and policymaking; consolidate learning through final capstone showcases and a 30-day leadership commitment.
By the end of the Planetary Health Leadership Program, you will be able to:
Articulate core principles of planetary health; frame your individual capstone challenge; select a deliverable format and submit your initial Capstone Brief.
Analyze your leadership challenge through systems-thinking and equity lenses; map stakeholders and structural drivers; submit a refined problem statement and visual constituency map.
Develop innovative strategy options using cultural and systems lenses; assess positionality and power dynamics; submit a strategic options draft with two directions and a rationale.
Translate your strategy into actionable interventions; identify policy and advocacy levers; define partnerships; submit a Policy/Advocacy + Partnerships Action Page and your first deliverable draft.
Use arts-based and reflective methods to examine leadership identity and sustainable practice; strengthen capstone narrative clarity; submit a Capstone Narrative & Giving Grace Addendum with an updated abstract.
Integrate AI/environmental health considerations and ethics/equity risks; define measurable evaluation metrics; deliver a midpoint share-out and submit Deliverable Draft v2.
Integrate well-being and sustainability considerations; adapt messaging for diverse audiences; submit a Well-being & Sustainability Note and near-final deliverable draft.
Deliver your final 5-minute individual capstone showcase; submit your final deliverable; articulate a 30-day leadership commitment; join the vision circle and alumni network activation.
For questions about the program or the application process, contact ysn.global@yale.edu