To highlight our contributions to strengthening health systems, we created an infographic that showcases the impact that some of our activities have in making sure that people can get the care they need, within a reasonable distance, at an affordable cost, and...
In global health, gender competency enables health workers to identify how different norms, social constructs, roles, expectations, power differentials, opportunities, and constraints assigned to women, men, girls, and boys may influence behavior and choices. A gender-competent health worker strives to apply the needed knowledge,...
As USAID’s global health workforce flagship program, HRH2030 is providing strategic thought leadership, communication, and implementation support to strengthen community health worker (CHW) programs. Several USAID partners make significant contributions to sustaining and scaling high-quality CHW programs supported by health and community systems at...
Community health workers play a big role many countries’ overall health status, which is one of the reasons why the WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programmes was heralded when it was released on October 2018. The...
Global eLearning Course (September 6, 2018, 120 min, FREE): HRH2030 worked in partnership with USAID and K4Health to produce an updated online course on HRH principles and practices on the Global Health eLearning Center (GHeL). Structured around the WHO Global HRH Strategy: Workforce 2030,...
While Uganda is on track to meet 90-90-90 targets by 2020, the country faces several human resources for health (HRH) and financing constraints. HRH constraints include inadequate skills mix, maldistribution of health workers, high absenteeism, and a 36 percent vacancy rate in public facilities....
To frame the work of our country programs, HRH2030 created the Health Worker Life Cycle Approach. While drawing inspiration from the Sousa et al. Health Labor Market Framework (which informed the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health), this life cycle...
The Jordan Ministry of Health’s (MOH) Strategic Plan 2013-2017 lists both attracting new talent into the public health system and retaining staff as two of its biggest challenges. Because about 3.78 million people in Jordan — including refugees and marginalized populations — rely on...
In many ways, a fully functioning health workforce drives the well-being of communities, regions, and entire countries. Policy-makers at the national level can use reliable data to make decisions about where and what type of health workers are needed based on population health needs....