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Andrew Brown of People that Deliver: Share Your Stories on Strengthening the Supply Chain Workforce

... initiative helps countries plan, support, and retain their health supply chain workforces, which are critical for ensuring medicines and ... and how essential it is that successes be shared so the community can grow and members can learn from each other. For countries that ...

Blog - Carol Bales - February 2014 - 0 comments

Linking the Millennium Development Goals with Human Resources for Health

... discuss the critical link between human resources for health (HRH) and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). ... systems implementation, encourage development of the community health worker cadre, and support construction of new facilities. ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - September 2013 - 0 comments

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

... Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services: Health Workforce Considerations A new Capacity ... these services. Governments and the global health community are increasingly paying attention to maximizing and measuring impact ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - September 2012 - 0 comments

Examining the Critical Link between Health Workers and Millennium Development Goal 6

The global health workforce shortage is a critical obstacle to reaching the goal of ... on the AIDS pandemic, and Maxensia Nakibuuka, a Ugandan community health worker, who stressed the need for recognition and support of her cadre to ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - June 2011 - 0 comments

Regional Champion of Open Source iHRIS Software Shares Successes and Lessons Learned

... countries in West Africa to track, manage, and plan their health workforce using Capacity Plus ’s iHRIS software . Recently he ... GA An interactive webinar with the global iHRIS community, including participants from Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa, ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - September 2011 - 0 comments

Nine Polio Workers Dead in Nigeria: How Can We Move beyond Condemnation to Actions that Protect Health Workers?

... Pakistan , according to Reuters—and today, nine female health workers were slain in northern Nigeria, also while working on a polio ... children.” Soon the rumors became so widespread that community leaders in the north began to heed them and refused to allow the ...

Blog - Carol Bales - February 2013 - 0 comments

Deploying an Integrated Human Resources for Health Approach to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

The global health workforce crisis demands a strategic investment in a long-term solution. ... their financial and programmatic inputs into health worker training and deployment, and the effects of these actions on health ... doctors and nurses Define the long-term role of community health workers. This is a call for a new age in health ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - June 2013 - 0 comments

Family Planning and Access to Health Workers

... International blog . Amid the worldwide health worker shortage, some low-income countries are managing to show ... at the same levels as doctors, nurses, and midwives. Community health workers, for example, play a vital role in many countries. ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments

Ready, Set, Study: CapacityPlus Accelerates Nigeria’s Production of New Health Workers

... Capacity Plus Accelerates Nigeria’s Production of New Health Workers On February 19, 2013, Capacity ... the preservice education and qualification of midwives and community health extension workers—accelerating Nigeria’s contribution ...

Blog - Carol Bales - August 2013 - 0 comments

2011’s Must-Read Health Workforce Publication

As the realization grows that the health workforce shortage and maldistribution is the largest barrier to meeting ... of a national health system including strategic planning, community accountability, service delivery, health worker education, and management. Anyone in public health could benefit from ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - December 2011 - 0 comments