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iHRIS: Where Are We Now?

Global health workforce issues have only recently received focused attention in the ... Often, records were missing or misfiled. Tracking down one worker’s record could take days. Aggregating information, such as the total ... Worldwide Growing the Global iHRIS Community, One Bounty at a Time Photo 1 courtesy of Shannon ...

Blog - Carol Bales - April 2012 - 0 comments

Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services: Health Workforce Considerations

... Governments and the global health community are increasingly paying attention to maximizing and measuring impact ...

Resource - Sarah Dwyer - August 2014 - 0 comments

“You Never Think It Will Happen to You”: Health Workers Confront the Risks of Tuberculosis

... . Pat ricia Bond was working as a nurse at a health facility in South Africa when she developed some troubling symptoms. ... TB Proof is trying to reduce stigma and educate the health community. But this hasn’t been easy. “We’re meeting with a lot of ...

Blog - Carol Bales - April 2013 - 0 comments

Without the User, There Is No System: Harnessing Technology through the eHealth Workforce

... blog . When we talk about building strong health systems and the health workers to run these systems, we often think about doctors or nurses or community health workers. Just as crucial to health systems are robust health ...

Blog - jennifer - March 2013 - 0 comments

Making Money Work: Global Advisory Board to Strengthen Health Professional Schools

... Board on Strengthening Medical, Nursing, and Public Health Schools in Developing Countries . The board—as part of our work to ... in health professional schools. “The global health community needs to urgently support the strengthening of not only the curricula ...

Blog - jennifer - September 2012 - 0 comments

At the Source of Health Care, Health Workers

... Jaffer is the deputy director of human resources for health and health systems strengthening for the IntraHealth International-led ... that, particularly in Africa, the majority of nurses and community health workers are women. So when we consider that the World ...

Blog - Carol Bales - December 2013 - 0 comments

How I Fell in Love with the Sisters and Students at St. Joseph’s

... Joseph’s. Their eagerness to serve the women of their community is summed up in the school motto: “The Patient Is My Profession.” ... me that the work we do in international development and health is “depressing.” But I disagree. To me, working in this field—and ...

Blog - Carol Bales - February 2014 - 0 comments

Overcoming Obstacles to Accessing Mental Health Services in Ethiopia

... at the Ethiopian Global Initiative’s Ethiopia Public Health Forum , the focus of which was “Beyond the Stigma of Mental Health ... with USAID as a donor, as well as ways to engage family, community, and the diaspora. Participating in the forum allowed me to ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments

Nigeria’s Health Workforce: Aso!

Nigeria’s Health Workforce: Aso ! Driving around Abuja, ... energy with Shiono A. Bennibor, the registrar/CEO at the Community Health Practitioners Board, who explained the efforts the board is ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments

Key Events

... As IntraHealth’s Pape Gaye has written , the global health community’s eyes should be on these two gatherings. Their goals are ...

Page - Sarah Dwyer - November 2013 - 0 comments