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Strengthening the Mental Health Workforce with eLearning

... half of developing countries have fewer than five mental health researchers. The World Health Organization’s calculations indicate ... and support lower-skilled workers—often rural or local community health workers . There are fruitful examples of this distance ...

Blog - jennifer - March 2013 - 0 comments

Connected Health Workers Key to Improved Health Care

... kilometers away, in Recife, Brazil. As reproductive health policy-makers, advocates, and practitioners are gathering at the African ... Coverage Top 5 Reasons the Global Health Community Should Have Its Eyes on Recife   ...

Blog - Carol Bales - December 2013 - 0 comments

Five Key Steps to Making the Health Workforce a Post-MDG Priority

... This is a pivotal year for the international development community. Fourteen years ago, world leaders gathered at the United Nations ... And how can we make even faster progress toward global health and well-being? These questions are very much in my mind as we ...

Blog - Carol Bales - April 2014 - 0 comments

Health Professional School Leaders Are Critical in National Health Planning and Policies for Emerging Epidemics

Health professional school leaders must be seen as a vital health sector ... immediate funding response from the international community including an initial $21 million investment in protective gear, ... on Ebola in Real Time Scaling Up Health Worker Production: The Bottlenecks and Best Buys Approach Photo ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - September 2014 - 0 comments

The Seven-Billionth Person: A Global Health Workforce Perspective

... light on the implications of population growth for the health and well-being of all our children and the generations to come. ... and the Global Health Workforce Crisis Community Health Workers: Meeting the Need for Family Planning in West and ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments

Your Voice: Frontline Health Workers Are the Unsung Heroes of Global Health Progress

... is a communications adviser in the Bureau for Global Health. With her 3-month-old son, John, lethargic, feverish and vomiting, ... camp in the northwestern corner of Liberia. Musu Kpakar, a community health worker, administers a rapid finger-stick test to see if ...

Blog - Carol Bales - June 2014 - 0 comments

Update on the MDGs: Where Are the Health Workers?

... fascinating snapshot of how far we’ve come in improving health outcomes—and how much further we need to go. Unfortunately, the report ... in words but in action. Related items: Community Health Workers: Meeting the Unmet Need for Family Planning in West ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - June 2013 - 0 comments

Uganda Launches iHRIS Train to Track Health Worker Training

Health workforce decision-makers now have a new tool for their toolbox: iHRIS Train, software that tracks health worker training and reports on the number of health professionals being ... their respective countries. The active iHRIS open source community is supporting collaboration between the Ugandan developer and the ...

News - Carol Bales - June 2013 - 0 comments

Dr. Kate Tulenko Takes on Leadership of CapacityPlus

... strengthening. She also serves as senior director for health systems innovation at IntraHealth International , Capacity Plus ... Project Leadership Increasing Community Health Worker Productivity and Effectiveness: A Review of the ...

News - Sarah Dwyer - October 2012 - 0 comments

Better, Stronger, and Thankful: HIV Peer Counselor in the Dominican Republic Shares Impact of His Work

... Republic . “I’ve always felt motivated to work in the community to inform people,” he says. The area shares a border with Haiti and ... his consultation, and we tried to educate him about his health condition. Later the patient returned home, and we lost contact with ...

Blog - Sarah Dwyer - September 2014 - 0 comments