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Wanda Jaskiewicz, IntraHealth International, Workforce Performance Support Team Lead
Wanda Jaskiewicz, team leader for health workforce performance support systems, is a global health specialist with over 15 years of extensive field experience in developing countries. Her area of focus in her current role is to provide technical assistance in improving health worker retention and productivity. Prior to this position Jaskiewicz worked on numerous USAID projects as a technical advisor and in a program management capacity in the area of HIV/AIDS, family planning, reproductive health, and maternal health. She holds an MPH from Tulane University, has extensive field experience in many countries, and is fluent in English and Spanish.

Expertise

• Human resources for health
• Health workforce retention and productivity
• Performance improvement
• Supportive supervision
• Reproductive health/family planning, HIV/AIDS

Selected Publications
Jaskiewicz, Wanda, Laura Fitzgerald, Linda Fogarty, Amanda Huber, Greet Peersman, Stephanie Schalk-Zaitsev, Reena Sethi, Maya Tholandi, and Steve Yank. 2009. Promising practices to build human resources capacity in HIV strategic information. Chapel Hill, NC: Capacity Project. http://www.intrahealth.org/files/media/promising-practices-to-build-huma...

Jaskiewicz, Wanda, Outavong Phathammavong, Phouthone Vangkonevilay, Chanthakhath Paphassarang, Inpong Thong Phachanh, and Laura Wurts. 2012. Toward development of a rural retention strategy in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Understanding health worker preferences. Washington, DC: CapacityPlus. http://www.capacityplus.org/files/resources/Toward-Development-of-a-Rura...

Jaskiewicz, Wanda, Maria Ines Tomo, Francisco Langa, Hilde De Graeve, Catherine McKinney, and Lucy Ramirez. 2010. Human resources for health implications of scaling up for universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care: Mozambique rapid situational analysis. Global Health Workforce Alliance Technical Work Group. http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/knowledge/publications/Mozambique_R...

Jaskiewicz, Wanda, Kate Tulenko, Peter Rockers, Laura Wurts, and George Mgomella. 2010. Retaining hospital workers: A rapid methodology to determine incentive packages. World Hospitals and Health Services, 46 no. 3: 8-11. http://www.ihf-fih.org/en/Publications/Journals/World-Hospitals/World-Ho...

Degrees
BA, Dartmouth College
MPH, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Languages
Spanish

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