When the global health community observed World Health Worker Week last month, the theme was “Listen to Health Workers.” And listen we did, through a month-long video testimonial campaign launched by Frontline Health Workers Coalition and Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030), in...
Providing client-centered family planning (FP) services requires a strong, well-managed health workforce. In order to deliver effective healthcare—especially to maintain essential primary care and FP services during public health emergencies—it is important for health facilities, national human resources for health (HRH) planners, and implementing...
In November 2020, the MOH signed an agreement with Indonesia’s Midwifery Association (Ikatan Bidan Indonesia, or IBI) to share data and work together to better manage and optimize midwives’ contribution to the health workforce. IBI membership has hundreds of thousands of midwives across the...
Today is World Health Day, which falls in the middle of World Health Worker Week. In the 12 months since we last marked these commemorations, we have seen the world’s health systems—and the health workers that are the linchpin of these systems—stretched to nearly...
Next week begins the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, neither health nor health workers are in the spotlight this year, a disappointment after last year’s adoption of the political declaration on Universal Health Coverage. Fortunately, those...
Eight months ago, I sat down to write the January edition of this monthly Director’s Digest in my usual optimistic state of mind, writing that while “it’s easy to be a pessimist when one thinks about the scale of problems we’re grappling with around...
HRH2030 announced the winners of the HRH2030 Health Workforce Resilience Prize on June 24, 2020, recognizing Nyaya Health Nepal and TNH Health with $25,000 each for their innovative approaches to foster health worker resiliency. USAID Global Health Bureau Assistant Administrator Dr. Alma Golden and...
A week ago, the HRH2030 project team celebrated the culmination of a six-month campaign to promote the resiliency of the health workforce. We began with an initial idea: to launch a prize modeled after USAID’s Inclusive Health Access Prize. We changed the focus on...
In 2017, Dr. Namory Camara’s career took a new trajectory when, after seven years of working in private health clinics, he joined Mali’s civil service and was assigned to the Kadiolo Referral Health Center in the Sikasso region. At 37, he was appointed the...
In 2017, in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Madagascar, HRH2030 worked with a designated HRIS Assessment Framework (HAF) assessment team to gather data through stakeholder interviews over an eight-day period (September 4-12, 2017). This report presents the HRIS status assessment review process...