The transformation of health systems also involves rethinking how we learn, lead, and create impact. In this context, the Chair in Leadership in Values at UManresa is contributing to the publication TLAHUI – Transformation and Leadership for Innovation in Public Health Learning, a work that offers new perspectives for addressing major global challenges.
Òscar Dalmau, a member of the Chair, is co-author alongside Dr. Nenetzen Saavedra from the School of Public Health of Mexico. The book was presented at the HELIX Mexico international conference, held from May 19 to 22, as a space for sharing visions on the future of education in public health.
Dawn as a turning point
TLAHUI, a word of ancestral Mexican origin that refers to the first light of day, becomes a metaphor for the current moment in public health: a time of change that calls for awakening new ways of thinking and acting. Schools of public health face the need to adapt to increasingly complex environments, doing so through an approach that integrates knowledge, awareness, and social responsibility. The book offers a framework for this transformation grounded in values-based leadership, understood as a driving force for meaningful change with real impact on people and communities.
Learning in new ways
One of the key contributions of the work is its proposal to rethink the learning experience. The book’s augmented format, which integrates interactive resources and playful elements, responds to the need to bring knowledge closer in a more vivid, relational, and meaningful way.
The content is structured around six axes — shaping the concept of TLAHUI — addressing, among others, the transformation of health systems, the importance of leading through values, the design of people-centered experiences, and the creation of open and connected learning ecosystems. All of this is framed within an approach that integrates innovation, ethics, and humanism.
From knowledge to action
Beyond the publication, the project takes shape through the launch of a continuing education diploma with micro-credentials, jointly promoted by the School of Public Health of Mexico and the Chair in Leadership in Values at UManresa. An initiative aimed at connecting learning, professional practice, and personal development. The book includes a foreword by Dr. Laura Magaña, President and CEO of the ASPPH, who captures the essence of this transformation: “When we transform education in public health, we transform the health of populations. And when we transform the health of populations, we transform the world.” Along this path, the invitation is clear: to lead through values in order to contribute, through education, to a healthier and more humane future.