Human Resources for Health: Shifting the Paradigm – Pape Gaye, IntraHealth

1. What do you feel was accomplished at Recife? Pape Gaye:  The meeting was a milestone, especially for someone like me, who is interested and passionate about advancing HRH. I thought three main points came out clearly. First, gaining commitment to Universal Health Care (UHC) is an important step. Building on past forums in Uganda (2008) and Bangkok (2011), this … [Read more...] about Human Resources for Health: Shifting the Paradigm – Pape Gaye, IntraHealth

It isn’t often that one gets two conferences in one; but the well-attended pre-conference side sessions at the Third Global Forum on HRH held in Recife, Brazil provided such an opportunity. The topic of particular interest to me was how support for community health workers (CHWs) and primary health care (PHC) systems could be better coordinated to achieve the Millennium … [Read more...] about Galvanizing Commitment to Universal Health Coverage – Results from the 3rd Global Forum on Human Resources for Health (HRH)

In many countries, community health workers (CHWs) are the last mile of the supply chain and the most difficult to reach with life-saving medications and supplies. Yet it is in these communities that sick children live and where CHWs have the greatest chance to increase child survival. Getting medicines to these CHWs is often challenged by harsh geography, infrastructure, and … [Read more...] about Quality Improvement Helps CHWs Meet the Medical Supply Needs of Rwanda’s Children

  The Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health (the Forum) will be one of the main global health events in 2013, bringing together over 1500 policy makers, experts and advocates in the health workforce field, and frontline health workers. The event theme is Human Resources for Health: foundation for Universal Health Coverage and the post-2015 … [Read more...] about Global HRH Conference in Recife, Brazil

“We are desperately short of health workers and many have not had training in newborn care. Your videos are an amazing resource to help us train these workers.” We commonly get feedback like the above from the field – all over the developing world -- from remote areas in Africa to island nations in the Pacific. We founded Global Health Media Project to design and produce … [Read more...] about The Global Health Media Project – Training Videos for Newborn Care