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...
As Malawi nears HIV epidemic control, standardizing the roles and responsibilities for health care workers at the community and facility levels is a key step in maximizing the country’s HIV efforts. This month, PEPFAR Malawi, jointly with the CDC, USAID, and HRH2030 Malawi, hosted...
With USAID’s emphasis on equity, quality, and resource optimization as critical outcomes for health systems, along with local and world events that continue to illustrate glaring inequities within the global community, the HRH2030 global team has been analyzing our six years of work through...
The Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) Mali program, funded by USAID Mali from January 2018 to December 2020, provided technical assistance directly to the Ministry of Health and Social Development (MHSD) to strengthen human resources management for the health workforce and improve...
With the launch of its National One Health Platform in February, Côte d’Ivoire marks a milestone in its progress on the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), and realized a long-term goal made possible through a coordinated effort led by the Prime Minister’s office and...