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...
We still have a long road ahead of us as we look toward the end of the pandemic. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t be grateful for what we have now—and we should be. We know so much more about this virus than...
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....
October begins the new fiscal year for our program, and we are proud to be partnering with USAID as we move into the final year of HRH2030. In the last few weeks, we have published quite a few new resources on our website that...
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...
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...
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...
HRH2030 recognized ACHEST with an honorable mention during its Health Workforce Resilience Prize ceremony in June 2020. ACHEST was acknowledged for its three-day training course that supports newly qualified health professionals in Uganda, as they transition into health service provision. It focuses on building...
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...