Activities

08 Mar Three Questions with Samantha Law: Creating a Gender-Competent Family Planning Workforce

Posted at 15:00h in Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), Skill mix and competency, Women and Gender in Health News

Samantha Law is a manager with Chemonics’ Global Health Division and serves as gender lead on HRH2030. Each year on March 8, people and organizations around the world celebrate International Women's Day to commemorate the movement for women's rights. This year’s campaign #PressforProgress underscores the continued...

26 Feb HRH2030 Promotes Participatory Planning Approach for Jordan Ministry of Health

Posted at 15:20h in Jordan News, Leadership and governance, Strengthening HRH in Jordan, Women and Gender in Health News

“This is the first time that I got the chance to participate in … strategic planning meetings and workshops. It [has] increased my knowledge in developing strategic plans and motivated me to plan for our division,” said Ola Faquseh. Ola works in human resources for...

26 Jan Ministry of Health in Jordan Witnesses Improvements in Human Resources Practices

Posted at 22:12h in Jordan News, Skill mix and competency, Strengthening HRH in Jordan, Women and Gender in Health News

USAID has emphasized its commitment to improving health sector outcomes and resilience through health systems strengthening under Development Objective 3 (Social Sector Quality Improved), Intermediate Result 1 (Health Status Improved). Through HRH2030, USAID is helping Jordan strengthen its health workforce by improving human resources practices...

08 Dec AIDS Day Q&A Part 4: Making the Case for Investing in HRH

Posted at 00:00h in HIV/AIDS, Making the Case for HIV/AIDS HRH Investment (4.2)

Catherine Barker, a senior associate with HRH2030 partner Palladium, specializes in health economics. Over the last four years, Catherine has provided technical assistance to ministries of health and civil society organizations in Africa and Asia to inform health systems strengthening initiatives, particularly related to...

07 Dec AIDS Day Q&A Part 3: Standardized Use of Site-Level HRH Data for Differentiated Models of ART Delivery

Posted at 00:00h in HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Method for Standardized Use of Site-Level HRH Data (1.6), Performance and productivity

Dr. Samson Kironde is a medical doctor and public health professional with more than 17 years of experience in strengthening health systems in developing countries, in particular to combat communicable diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and childhood infections. His areas of expertise include...

06 Dec AIDS Day Q&A Part 2: Optimizing the Role of Community-Based Workers in HIV Service Delivery

Posted at 15:58h in Assessing the Community-Based HIV Workforce, HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Performance and productivity

René Berger is a director in the global health division of Chemonics. He has more than 17 years of experience working with USAID and implementing partners as an HIV/AIDS expert. Mr. Berger has been involved with PEPFAR since its inception and brings a strong...

01 Dec Steering HIV Epidemic Control in Malawi: Additional health workers relieve health system

Posted at 15:14h in Advancing Malawi's Health Workforce, HIV/AIDS, Malawi News

Among the poorest countries in Africa, Malawi faces myriad health challenges. Approximately 28,000 of an estimated 18 million Malawians are infected with HIV annually and nearly 980,000 Malawians are HIV positive. Of these, more than one third do not know their HIV status.* The...

27 Nov Materials from Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health Side Session

Posted at 20:37h in Aligning HRH Competencies with Local Health Needs (1.3), Global Resources, Madagascar Resources, Making the Case for HIV/AIDS HRH Investment (4.2), Malawi Resources, PEPFAR Site-Level Assessment (1.2), Performance and productivity, Presentations, Productivity and Performance (1.1), Uganda Resources, Zambia Resources

On November 13, 2017 HRH2030 hosted the satellite session Work Smarter: Tools for boosting health workforce efficiency at the Fourth Global Forum on Human Resources for Health to highlight several tools and approaches piloted by the program. Presentations and supporting materials from the session...

09 Nov HRH2030 Vets Gender Competency Work with Experts

Posted at 14:16h in Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), News, Skill mix and competency, Women and Gender in Health News

With support from USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, HRH2030 recently convened a group of gender, family-planning, gender-based violence, and HRH experts and practicing midwives and nurses for a consultative forum to vet its work on defining and advancing gender competence in the...

02 Nov Strengthening Jordan’s Human Resources for Health Observatory for Reliable Health Workforce Data

Posted at 13:38h in HRIS and health workforce data, Jordan, Jordan News, News, Strengthening HRH in Jordan, Women and Gender in Health News

Audio interview with Dr. Al Hadidi (in Arabic) In Jordan, HRH2030 works with the High Health Council (HHC) to strengthen the council’s capacity to govern the health workforce. A critical piece of this work is collaborating with the HHC to bolster the National Human Resources...