As countries have been responding to COVID-19, they have also been focusing on delivering essential services in other areas, whether HIV, maternal and child health, or malaria. In this month’s HRH2030 highlights, we cover each of these topics....
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...
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...
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...
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...
A week ago, the HRH2030 project team celebrated the culmination of a six-month campaign to promote the resiliency of the health workforce. We began with an initial idea: to launch a prize modeled after USAID’s Inclusive Health Access Prize. We changed the focus on...
In 2017, Dr. Namory Camara’s career took a new trajectory when, after seven years of working in private health clinics, he joined Mali’s civil service and was assigned to the Kadiolo Referral Health Center in the Sikasso region. At 37, he was appointed the...
The topic of health worker resiliency is still in the headlines, and I expect it will continue to be, as the global health workforce continues to grapple with COVID-19. A new report from the United Nations last month put the focus on mental health,...
As we enter another month of this pandemic, I am drawing strength from the stories that show how health workers are persevering in the face of tremendously challenging circumstances....
We are living through a pandemic of the likes we’ve never seen before, and the world is struggling to find a way forward that promises solutions. But with no immediate solutions in sight, those of us who are not health workers have to take...