YOUNG VOICES • RESPONSIBLE ACTION • LEADERSHIP

Take Action

Knowledge matters. Action makes it matter.

Global health needs people who can learn, question, collaborate and turn knowledge into responsible contribution. At GHE, action can begin anywhere—from improving your own health and helping a classmate to contributing to community, national or global change.

Start Taking Action → Explore Leadership

Young people learning, collaborating and developing leadership

Learn • Connect • Act • Lead

TAKE ACTION

Action belongs to everyone.

You do not need a title, a position or a formal leadership role to make a meaningful contribution to global health.

Notice

Pay attention to a health, social or environmental issue that matters to you or the people around you.

Learn

Ask questions, explore evidence and understand the issue before deciding what should be done.

Contribute

Use your knowledge, skills, creativity and voice to make a responsible contribution.

Improve

Reflect on what happened, learn from experience and improve what you do next.

Think Global. Act Local. Do It Now.

LEADS

LEADS tells us what leaders develop.

LEADS provides a framework for understanding the capabilities that leaders develop in order to contribute effectively within health systems.

GHE

GHE tells us how they use leadership.

GHE adds a youth-oriented lens focused on service, humanity, social determinants of health, empathy and empowering others.

THE LEADERSHIP CAPABILITY FRAMEWORK

LEADS

The Canadian LEADS in a Caring Environment framework provides a way to understand leadership capabilities across health systems.

GHE presents the framework for educational purposes and does not claim ownership of the LEADS framework. The framework is associated with the Canadian College of Health Leaders.

LEAD SELF

Develop yourself.

Build character, self-awareness, curiosity, confidence and perseverance. Leadership begins with responsibility for one's own learning, decisions and behaviour.

Character Integrity Curiosity Perseverance

ENGAGE OTHERS

Build relationships.

Listen carefully, communicate respectfully, encourage participation and create space for different perspectives and experiences.

Listening Empathy Inclusion Respect

ACHIEVE RESULTS

Turn ideas into action.

Connect purpose with evidence, make thoughtful decisions, take action, assess what happens and improve when results do not match expectations.

Evidence Action Evaluation Responsibility

DEVELOP COALITIONS

Work across differences.

Build relationships across people, schools, communities and organizations. Bring different knowledge, perspectives and strengths together.

Collaboration Partnership Trust Knowledge

SHAPE SYSTEMS

Shape Systems / Systems Transformation.

See beyond individual situations. Understand how people, policies, environments, institutions, resources and power interact—and help create sustainable improvement.

Systems Thinking Equity Innovation Change

LEAD SELF → ENGAGE OTHERS → ACHIEVE RESULTS → DEVELOP COALITIONS → SHAPE SYSTEMS

Systems Transformation GHE preserves this concept because meaningful global health improvement often requires change beyond individual behaviour or individual projects.

THE GHE LENS

GHE

If LEADS describes what leaders develop, GHE asks how those capabilities are used.

GIVE / SERVE

Use leadership for others.

Leadership is not simply personal achievement. Use your knowledge, skills, time and opportunities to contribute to the wellbeing of others—especially people affected by health inequities.

Healthy Living Global Health Recognition

HEAR / HUMANIZE / HELP

Put people at the centre.

Listen to lived experience. Humanize health issues by seeing people in their social, cultural and environmental contexts. Understand the social determinants of health (SDH), respect dignity and diverse perspectives, and help people move forward.

Mental Health Research Young Voices SDH & Global Health

EMPOWER / EMPATHY

Help others participate and grow.

Use empathy to understand people and empowerment to help them participate, develop confidence, contribute meaningfully and eventually become leaders themselves.

Young Voices Help Build GHE Recognition

CAPABILITY + PURPOSE + PEOPLE → RESPONSIBLE ACTION

LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE

Where does leadership happen in GHE?

Leadership becomes practical when young people can see where they are developing it—and where they can use it.

LEADS / GHE	What develops	GHE Platform connection
L — Lead Self	Character, integrity, curiosity, confidence and perseverance	Education Framework • Healthy Living • Reflection • Young Voices
E — Engage Others	Listening, empathy, communication, inclusion and respect	Young Voices • Mental Health • Indigenous Health • Teachers & Parents
A — Achieve Results	Evidence-informed action, implementation, assessment and improvement	Research • Mini-Proposal Builder • GHBDC • Take Action
D — Develop Coalitions	Collaboration across people, schools, communities and organizations	Partners • Express Interest • Young Voices • Community engagement
S — Shape Systems / Systems Transformation	Systems thinking, equity, sustainability and long-term change	Global Awareness • SDGs • Explore the World • GHBDC • Governance
G — Give / Serve	Service and contribution	Take Action • Healthy Living • Global Health • Recognition
H — Hear / Humanize / Help	Lived experience, dignity, SDH and diverse perspectives	Mental Health • Indigenous Health • Research • Young Voices
E — Empower / Empathy	Helping others participate, grow and lead	Young Voices • Improve GHE • Recognition • Teachers & Parents