The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated human resources for health challenges around the world and heightened need for a well-prepared, well-supported workforce to not only respond to the pandemic but to also maintain essential services including those for HIV. Community-based services have been critical to...
In her presentation, Gender Competency for Family Planning Providers, gender lead Samantha Law-Wilde gave an overview of our global gender-competency framework family planning service providers....
AAAH’s webinar series, Addressing Health Care Workers’ Challenges in Response to COVID-19: Sharing experiences and drawing countries’ lessons, which took place over the past two months, drew speakers from across 16 countries who highlighted how governments, partners, and other stakeholders mobilized the health workforce...
This blog outlines five steps he and other global experts shared during a virtual event alongside the 75th United Nations General Assembly for how countries, donors, and others can better protect and support our most precious resource—frontline health workers....
Join Frontline Health Workers Coalition and member organizations Chemonics, IntraHealth International, Living Goods, Management Sciences for Health, and Pathfinder International for an exciting discussion during the 75th United Nations General Assembly focused on how investments in the workforce now can better position countries to...
The Asia Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) Webinar Series was organized under the theme Addressing Health Care Workers’ Challenges in Response to COVID-19: sharing experiences and drawing on countries lessons. The series showcases the innovations and expertise of AAAH’s 18...
While this pandemic is unprecedented, experiences from previous health emergencies like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, coupled with existing knowledge of how to cultivate resilient health systems, point to three key areas for supporting the health workforce that we should emphasize: provision of...
To highlight our contributions to strengthening health systems, we created an infographic that showcases the impact that some of our activities have in making sure that people can get the care they need, within a reasonable distance, at an affordable cost, and...
In global health, gender competency enables health workers to identify how different norms, social constructs, roles, expectations, power differentials, opportunities, and constraints assigned to women, men, girls, and boys may influence behavior and choices. A gender-competent health worker strives to apply the needed knowledge,...
On June 24, 2020, we hosted a virtual award ceremony in which we awarded $50,000 in prize money to two winning organizations: Nyaya Health Nepal and TNH Health in Brazil, for their innovative approaches to foster health worker resiliency. The ceremony features remarks from...