Brown, David Malcolm2020-09-152016-052020-03-112016Brown, David Malcolm. 2016. Engaging Communities for Health: a Qualitative Study of Leadership in Eight New England HIV/AIDS Service Organization. Master's thesis, Harvard Medical School.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37365169This study explores how leaders facilitate sustainable community health care delivery projects and engage communities in socially complex settings. These finding will address two broader research goals: first, to provide an in-depth understanding of the elements of leadership that bring about transformative social change in politically and socially complex settings; second, to discover key leadership strategies for successful community engagement in resource-limited settings. Specific aims and objectives of this research are: • To gain in-depth understanding of reoccurring challenges, patterns and variables that exist in socially complex settings that affect health care delivery projects, policies and outcomes • To assess factors impacting community engagement and the leader’s role in identifying opportunities and challenges for projects impacting health care delivery in socially complex settings • To gain an in-depth understanding of how effective leaders create support for collaborative efforts that advance health care delivery projects, initiatives and policies • To investigate how leaders extend the invitation of co-ownership to community and stakeholders to achieve consensus and “buy-in” for projects • To identify leadership strategies that produce effective collaboration among multiple stakeholders • To understand more fully the dynamics of community engagement and leadership in the context of implementing sustainable large scale projects/interventions to promote solidarity among leaders, stakeholders and communityapplication/pdfenGlobal HealthLeadershipEngagementHIV/AIDSThesis or Dissertation2020-09-150000-0002-2937-5995