CapacityPlus to Present on Health Workforce Strengthening at Prince Mahidol Award Conference

Dr. Kate Tulenko will represent CapacityPlus at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2015 in Bangkok, January 26–31. This year’s theme is “Global Health Post-2015: Accelerating Equity.”

Tulenko will participate in the conference proceedings and present three CapacityPlus posters:

• Investing in Health Workforce Education and Training for Expanded Access to Essential Health Services for Underserved Populations (see related technical brief and blog post)

• Developing a Human Resources for Health (HRH) Effort Index to Measure Country-Level Status in HRH (see related tool and blog post)

• Building Human Resources for Health Governance and Leadership Capacity at the Country Level: Approaches, Results, and Recommendations (see related report and blog post)

The conference is cohosted by the Royal Thai Government, Prince Mahidol Award Foundation under the Royal Patronage, Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Mahidol University, the World Health Organization, World Bank, UNAIDS, USAID, JICA, Rockefeller Foundation, China Medical Board, and Chatham House.

For more information, see the conference program, side meetings, and field trip schedule. Follow @ktulenko and @CapacityPlus on Twitter for updates during the conference.

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Related items:

• Scaling Up Health Worker Production: The Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach

• Human Resources for Health (HRH) Indicator Compendium

• “I Made Some Changes”: A Nurse/Midwife’s Experience with Leadership and Management Training

Image courtesy of Prince Mahidol Award Conference