In response to COVID-19, the government of Malawi approved the recruitment of 2,000 additional health workers. Yet, health workers are still faced with increased workload and many also face additional challenges, such as harassment and stigma in their communities due to the fear of...
On June 24, 2020, HRH2030 awarded a $25,000 Health Workforce Resilience Prize to Vitalk, one of two winners of a global competition to recognize successful solutions that strengthen health workforce resilience. Vitalk’s winning innovation is its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mental health mobile app chatbot...
Seven months into the Year of Health and Care Workers, the lessons emerging from COVID-19 are continuing to shape future investments for a better protected, supported, and prepared health workforce. Our team at HRH2030 believes that some of the most critical areas that present...
In a world where primary health care is delivered by women but led by men, female voices are too often silenced, interrupted, or just ignored. The Institutionalizing Community Health Conference 2021 (ICHC) shone a spotlight on the passion and power women leaders bring to...
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to put a strain on countries’ health systems, obtaining accurate information about the health workforce is necessary for an effective, data-driven pandemic response as well as maintaining quality, essential services. In many Pacific Island countries, incomplete data collection and...
In Jakarta, Indonesia’s bustling capital city, Dr. Ani Ruspitawati’s office oversees more than 5,500 health facilities — known locally as Puskesmas — which serve a population of 10 million people....
In this two-part series, we call for country leaders to consider whether they are optimizing their health workforce and offer some resources and tools to help ensure uninterrupted care and continued provision of high-quality health services. In Part 1, we provided three recommendations to support...
In this two-part series, we call for country leaders to consider whether they are sufficiently optimizing their health workforce to respond to the pandemic and to contribute to longer-term health system resilience. We offer resources and tools to help leaders ensure uninterrupted care and...
Malaria surveillance—identifying where transmission is occurring to best pinpoint targeted responses to eliminate infections—is crucial to malaria prevention, control, and elimination. The Togolese National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), which has a high level of expertise in malaria sentinel site surveillance, welcomed a delegation from...
From 2016 to 2019, the USAID-funded HRH2030 activity in Jordan provided tailored technical assistance and capacity building interventions to meet Jordan’s human resources for health (HRH) needs. HRH2030 partnered with the Ministry of Health (MOH), High Health Council (HHC), Civil Service Bureau (CSB), and...