The Global Health Workforce Challenge

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LATEST NEWS

Jan 23, 2012

This monthly update from the HRH Global Resource Center provides information on the latest resources, improvements, and news from this digital library devoted to human resources for health (HRH).

Jan 20, 2012

How can community members and workers contribute most effectively to ensuring social services for vulnerable children and families? More than 70 participants from a range of countries joined a webinar on January 17 to consider key and emerging issues related to working with community members, including voluntarism, accountability, workloads, roles and responsibilities, and sustainability. Hosted by the Social Service Workforce Strengthening Alliance via CapacityPlus, the webinar was the fourth in a series funded by PEPFAR, and the first to be offered in both English and French (on January 19).

Jan 10, 2012

More than a dozen countries are implementing CapacityPlus's open source iHRIS software, which provides information for health leaders to track, manage, and plan their health workforce. CapacityPlus, along with other projects and organizations, provides assistance to these countries to install and adapt the software for local needs. As more countries continue to express interest in iHRIS, CapacityPlus is striving to broaden and strengthen a global community of people that can help support and sustain the software.

Dec 22, 2011

The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council (UMDPC) recently launched a new mobile directory, which provides information Ugandans can use to seek health services from qualified health workers at qualified facilities. By combining health workforce data with mobile phone technology, the system also allows council staff and health facility managers to easily verify health professionals’ credentials and cut down on unqualified practitioners.

KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY

Population Growth and the Global Health Workforce Crisis

This data-rich technical brief examines the potential impact of population growth on countries’ efforts to improve access to health workers, and recommends an approach that will help meet families’ health needs while mitigating the health workforce crisis. Also available in French.

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EVENTS

Global Health & Innovation Conference
April 21-22, 2012
New Haven, CT

The Global Health & Innovation Conference attracts over 2,000 professionals and students from all 50 states and more than 55 countries. Participants come from all fields of global health, international development, and social entrepreneurship. CapacityPlus’s Wanda Jaskiewicz will present “Designing evidence-based health worker attraction and retention strategies for rural areas: Application of a rapid discrete choice experiment tool in Uganda and Laos.”

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