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26 Jan Ministry of Health in Jordan Witnesses Improvements in Human Resources Practices

Posted at 22:12h in Jordan News, Skill mix and competency, Strengthening HRH in Jordan, Women and Gender in Health News

USAID has emphasized its commitment to improving health sector outcomes and resilience through health systems strengthening under Development Objective 3 (Social Sector Quality Improved), Intermediate Result 1 (Health Status Improved). Through HRH2030, USAID is helping Jordan strengthen its health workforce by improving human resources practices...

25 Jan Webinar: Investing in the Next Generation of Health Workforce Researchers

Posted at 22:41h in Leadership and governance

February 1, 2018 | 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. EST Every two years, Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH), a thematic working group of Health Systems Global, welcomes a new cohort of young, promising health policy and systems researchers from around the world into its innovative...

08 Dec AIDS Day Q&A Part 4: Making the Case for Investing in HRH

Posted at 00:00h in HIV/AIDS, Making the Case for HIV/AIDS HRH Investment (4.2)

Catherine Barker, a senior associate with HRH2030 partner Palladium, specializes in health economics. Over the last four years, Catherine has provided technical assistance to ministries of health and civil society organizations in Africa and Asia to inform health systems strengthening initiatives, particularly related to...

07 Dec AIDS Day Q&A Part 3: Standardized Use of Site-Level HRH Data for Differentiated Models of ART Delivery

Posted at 00:00h in HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Method for Standardized Use of Site-Level HRH Data (1.6), Performance and productivity

Dr. Samson Kironde is a medical doctor and public health professional with more than 17 years of experience in strengthening health systems in developing countries, in particular to combat communicable diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and childhood infections. His areas of expertise include...

06 Dec AIDS Day Q&A Part 2: Optimizing the Role of Community-Based Workers in HIV Service Delivery

Posted at 15:58h in Assessing the Community-Based HIV Workforce, HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Performance and productivity

René Berger is a director in the global health division of Chemonics. He has more than 17 years of experience working with USAID and implementing partners as an HIV/AIDS expert. Mr. Berger has been involved with PEPFAR since its inception and brings a strong...

05 Dec AIDS Day Q&A Part 1: Increasing HIV Impact through Human Resources for Health Interventions

Posted at 22:37h in HIV/AIDS, HRIS and health workforce data, Performance and productivity

Diana Frymus is the health workforce branch chief at USAID, Office of HIV/AIDS in Washington D.C. Her work focuses on advancing USAID and PEPFAR strategic approaches and technical programming for health workforce for achieving 90-90-90 goals and sustaining program efforts. How can human resources for...

01 Dec Steering HIV Epidemic Control in Malawi: Additional health workers relieve health system

Posted at 15:14h in Advancing Malawi's Health Workforce, HIV/AIDS, Malawi News

Among the poorest countries in Africa, Malawi faces myriad health challenges. Approximately 28,000 of an estimated 18 million Malawians are infected with HIV annually and nearly 980,000 Malawians are HIV positive. Of these, more than one third do not know their HIV status.* The...

09 Nov HRH2030 Vets Gender Competency Work with Experts

Posted at 14:16h in Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), News, Skill mix and competency, Women and Gender in Health News

With support from USAID’s Office of Population and Reproductive Health, HRH2030 recently convened a group of gender, family-planning, gender-based violence, and HRH experts and practicing midwives and nurses for a consultative forum to vet its work on defining and advancing gender competence in the...

02 Nov Strengthening Jordan’s Human Resources for Health Observatory for Reliable Health Workforce Data

Posted at 13:38h in HRIS and health workforce data, Jordan, Jordan News, News, Strengthening HRH in Jordan, Women and Gender in Health News

Audio interview with Dr. Al Hadidi (in Arabic) In Jordan, HRH2030 works with the High Health Council (HHC) to strengthen the council’s capacity to govern the health workforce. A critical piece of this work is collaborating with the HHC to bolster the National Human Resources...

11 Sep HRH2030 Supports Health Worker Data Training in Senegal

Posted at 19:55h in Advancing Global Health Security in Senegal, HRIS and health workforce data, News, Senegal News

In July, HRH2030 and Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Social Action’s Directorate of Human Resources (DRH) hosted a workshop to develop DRH staff members’ ability to effectively use the country’s human resources information system (HRIS). The workshop builds on collaborative efforts to create a...