INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme

The comprehensive multi-modular curriculum provides the essential compliance education and training necessary for today’s healthcare compliance and legal professionals. In the absence of an academic path within universities, this programme is a unique platform for them to acquire and enhance their professional competence. The specific objectives and contents of the INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme (HECP) are as follows:

The Role of the Effective Ethics & Compliance Officer (HECP S: Effective E&C Officer)

This programme explores the evolving role of the ethics and compliance officer in a context of ever increasing and more complex stakeholder demands on pharma and MedTech companies and changes in organisational culture and responsiveness to compliance requirements. Topics covered include:

• Building the business and ethical case for compliance, recognising how organisations can be successful at compliance and understanding the role of the compliance function in ensuring that success
• Who is responsible for ethics and compliance in the organisation? Where does accountability lie? What might reinforce understanding?
• How do communications and culture influence organisational understanding of the ownership of compliance? Includes attention to leadership in action and having difficult conversations.
• The role and attributes of the effective compliance officer as trusted advisor and how that role can evolve relative to organisational development and the external environment

 INSEAD Healthcare Ethics & Compliance Programme (HECP): Specialised Topics: Culture and Compliance

This programme explores the importance of organisational culture, its role in building ethical and compliant organisations, as well as the challenges faced when developing an ethics and compliance programme. Topics covered include: 

• Developing a better understanding of culture that will help you determine whether and how you might be successful in your organisation
• Understanding organisational culture
• How organisational culture affects ethics and compliance in healthcare organisations
• Why develop a truly global ethics and compliance programme? What are the challenges and how to respond to these
• Values vs. rules-based approaches to ethics and compliance programmes
• Ethics and cultural differences