This World Toilet Day, we highlight the essential role of clean and working toilets in expanding access to water, sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities, ensuring dignified births and high-quality care for all mothers, babies, and families....
November 2019: Improving Health Workforce Competencies Dear Colleagues, In the global health community, and as advocates for investing in the health workforce, we are often reminded of the shortfall of 18 million health workers awaiting us by 2030—just 10 years away. It’s a scary thought. What...
October 2019: Transforming Health Education Dear Colleagues, We are smart enough to predict things that will happen, so why can’t we be smarter about taking action today? This sums up one of my favorite tweets issued around the United Nation’s first-ever High-Level Meeting on Universal Health...
Rural women’s groups in Mali are proving that community health systems get stronger when national-level interventions are paired with community-level capacity building to make communities self-reliant....
September 2019: Transforming Health Education Dear Colleagues, Ah, September. In this part of the world, this is the month when many children head back to school for the start of a new school year. Young adults head off to college to begin their undergraduate programs, and...
This year’s International Youth Day theme calls on the global community to Transform Education to be more inclusive, equitable, and relevant for youth. Taking a comprehensive, whole-of-system approach to transform health professional education for a new century can help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals...
Female community health workers are essential to reaching underserved segments of the population, especially in weaker health systems, yet they do not always receive the professional recognition and support they deserve....
August 2019: Leave No One Behind Dear Colleagues, As I write this, the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is just a few weeks away; the UN General Assembly convenes on September 23 under the theme “Universal Health Coverage: Moving Together to Build a...
HRH2030 Project Director Wanda Jaskiewicz has more than 20 years of experience in international health and development with a focus on human resources for health, HIV/AIDS, family planning, reproductive health, and maternal and child health. She has worked in more than 25 countries providing...
Last month, the first Global Health Security Conference 2019 (GHS2019) took place in Sydney, Australia, gathering more than 800 participants from 65 countries to discuss strategies to advance global health security through partnerships, research, academia, inclusive policies, and programs....