Philippines News

12 Jan Celebrating HRH2030 Philippines: Key Achievements in Advancing Human Resources for Health

Posted at 18:23h in Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, Philippines, Philippines News

From October 2017 through June 2020, USAID’s HRH2030 program in the Philippines supported the Philippines Department of Health to strengthen recruitment, deployment, development, retention, and performance management of the health workforce to improve access to quality TB, family planning, and maternal and child health...

02 Oct The Future We Want: Increased Investments in National Health Workforce Accounts

Posted at 18:48h in Blog, Ethiopia, Ethiopia News, Indonesia, Indonesia News, National Health Workforce Accounts (3.3), News, Philippines, Philippines News

As the United Nations wraps up its 75th General Assembly this year—under the theme “the future we want,” we’re thinking about the future we want. The collective vision that guided the creation of NHWA was the aspiration that all countries’ would take a multi-sectoral...

23 Mar The Power of Perseverance: A TB Patient’s Journey to Health

Posted at 16:03h in Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, Philippines, Philippines News

It is a typical warm Tuesday morning in the densely populated Tondo, Manila, as Bernard makes his way to the Canossa Health and Social Center, a faith-based facility renowned for its distinctive, holistic approach to care. Bernard arrives at the facility just a few...

08 Jan Three Questions with Mekdelawit Bayu: Enhancing supervision to strengthen health worker performance

Posted at 16:29h in Enhancing Supervision to Optimize Health Outcomes (1.8), Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, Mali, Mali News, News, Performance and productivity, Philippines, Philippines News

In this three questions piece, HRH2030 Technical Project Manager Mekdelawit Bayu discusses HRH2030’s activity for enhancing supervision to strengthen health worker performance and health system viability....

08 Jan Can Digital Integration and Data Use Improve Health Worker Supervision? USAID’s HRH2030 Kicks off New Research Study in the Philippines

Posted at 15:58h in Enhancing Supervision to Optimize Health Outcomes (1.8), Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, News, Philippines, Philippines News

In the Philippines, USAID’s HRH2030 program is partnering with the Leyte Provincial Health Office to implement a pre-post intervention research study to measure the effects of enhancing health worker supervision by introducing digital integration, data use, and self-assessment innovations....

13 Nov Three Questions with Roxanne Zaghab: Innovating for Improved Health Worker Training

Posted at 02:56h in Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, News, Philippines, Philippines News

Roxanne Ward Zaghab, MSW, DM, CKM, is a leader and innovator in online adult education for development and health practitioners and a prolific author on the topic of learner-centric engagement. Her passion is the human-technology interface including knowledge transfer in resource-constrained settings. At...

12 Nov Elated About e-Learning: A Critical Tool for Advancing UHC

Posted at 04:31h in Blog, Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, Philippines, Philippines News

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...

06 Nov Philippine Department of Health Launches e-Learning Platform with Support from USAID’s HRH2030

Posted at 14:33h in Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, News, Philippines, Philippines News

On October 25, the Philippine Department of Health launched an e-learning platform, developed in partnership with USAID/Philippines and USAID’s HRH2030 program....

17 Oct USAID’s HRH2030 Supports Transition Planning of Global Fund Supported Tuberculosis Health Workers

Posted at 16:50h in HRIS and health workforce data, Improving Access to Quality Health Services in the Philippines, News, Philippines, Philippines News

Global Fund Tuberculosis (TB) grants, including support in filling key gaps in human resources, have played a major role in contributing to the Philippine’s ambitious TB goals....

16 Sep Four Takeaways: Testing the Gender Competency Framework in the Philippines

Posted at 13:48h in Blog, Family planning, Gender Competencies (2.3), News, Philippines, Philippines News, Women and Gender in Health News

Around the world, gender norms influence the ability of couples and families to meet their family planning needs. HRH2030 developed the competency framework and technical brief to help service providers better understand what ‘gender sensitive communication’ really means and how to practice gender awareness....