Newsletter Archive

News

• Oman has been added to the geographic category.
• The GRC has published an original resource created by the Capacity Project and the Ministry of Health in Uganda, Mapping the Human Resources Management Processes in Uganda.
• French versions of all the Capacity Project Technical Briefs are now available on the GRC.
• News articles this month include:
  • G8 Summit to Address Targets for HRH Shortage
  • Alma Ata Symposium on the Future of Primary Health Care
  • First Asia Pacific Conference on Nursing Research
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • HRH Action Framework
  • Guidelines: Incentives for Health Professionals
• The GRC currently has 1,753 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications "Yielding Very Positive Results: Improving Decentralized HIV Services in Costa Rica."

News

• The GRC has published an original user submitted resource, Role of Networking in Managing Migration of Human Resources for Health in the Philippines.
• Barbara Stilwell has contributed the GRC’s first expert resource review to add valuable critical feedback to a GRC resource. You can also or see her Reviewer Bioto learn more about her.
• News articles this month include:
  • Praxis Annual Conference on Participatory Development
  • Designing and Managing HIV and AIDS Programs In Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Cervical Barrier Methods Online Forum
  • XVII International AIDS Conference
  • Reproductive Health in Emergencies Conference
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • HRH Action Framework
• The GRC currently has 1,751 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications "Working from the Inside: Mainstreaming HIV into Government Planning in Kenya" and "I Can Make a Difference in One's Family Life: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Ethiopia" as well as a letter in The Lancet written by Barbara Stilwell, Anne Wilson and Jim McCaffery "Non-Physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa."

News

• The GRC has launched the first online video version of its HRH Leaders in Action interview series with Dr. Eddie Mukooyo.
• St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Dominica and Trinidad & Tobago have been added to the subject category.
• News articles this month include:
  • Innovations and Challenges in Health Informatics
  • Investing in Today, Safeguarding Tomorrow: Rethinking Recruitment and Retention Course
  • Training of CBR Trainers Course
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Capacity Planning in Health Care: a Review of the International Experience
  • Uganda Health Workforce Study: Satisfaction and Intent to Stay Among Health Workers in Public and PNFP Facilities
• The GRC currently has 1,733 resources, and 77 have been added this month. Ten of the latest additions are below.

News

• Health Sector Managers has been added to the subject category.
• The IntraHealth website has posted a news article, "Featured at the Conference on Global Health - The HRH Global Resource Center."
• The IntraHealth site also now includes an RSS feed of all the GRC Resource Spotlight articles in attractive, easy to read format.
• News articles this month include:
  • Management Sciences for Health Launches The eManager
  • Geneva Health Forum: Strengthening Health Systems and the Global Health Workforce
  • Global Community of Practice on Health Worker Migration
  • Conference on Primary Health Care and Health Systems in Africa
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Uganda Health Workforce Study: Satisfaction and Intent to Stay Among Health Workers in Public and PNFP Facilities
  • First GHWA Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala
• The GRC currently has 1,661 resources, and 65 have been added this month. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications, "Assessment of the Additional Duties Hours Allowance (ADHA) Scheme: Final Report" and "Planning, Developing and Supporting the Health Workforce: Human Resources for Health (HRH) Action Workshop."

News

• Work Environment has been added to the subject category.
• Are you aware that the GRC provides librarian support to anyone who has a question on HRH resources? To contact us for help or with suggestions, use our online form.
• News articles this month include:
  • Online Conference on Social Marketing for Health
  • Management Development Course for HIV/AIDS Managers
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Task Shifting to Tackle Health Worker Shortages
• The GRC published the latest HRH Leaders in Action Interview with Adeline Kimambo.
• The GRC currently has 1,597 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications, "Linking Up: Creating a Complete Picture of Swaziland's Health Workforce," "Looking to the Future: Improving Family Planning Access and Quality in Rwanda," "Assessing the Human Resource Capacity for Implementation of the National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Process Description and Tool Library," and "Human Resource for Health (HRH) Strategic Planning."

News

• Latvia, Switzerland, Lithuania and Estonia have been added to the geographic category.
• The GRC has reorganized the Education and Training category to better classify the resources and make it easier for users to navigate. The new section has the following categories:
  • Education and Training – general documents about educating and training health workers
  • Continuing Education – resources about continuing education for health workers
  • Curriculum - curriculum that can be used to train health workers
  • Training Effectiveness – resources that discuss the impact of training programs
  • Training Interventions – resources concerned with health worker training programs
  • In-Service Training – resources about training programs for current health workers
  • Pre-Service Education – resources about training programs for future health workers
  • Training Methodologies – resources about developing training systems and different methods of training
  • Distance Education – information about health worker training that can be done remotely
  • Training of Trainers – resources on how to train health worker trainers
• Are you aware that the GRC provides librarian support to anyone who has a question on HRH resources? To contact us for help or with suggestions, use our online form.
• News articles this month include:
  • Course on Health Systems Through Conflict and Recovery
  • Conference on Migrant Health in Europe
  • Community-Based Family Planning Workshop
  • Global Alliance for Pre-Service Education
  • Second Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge
  • Berkeley Conference on the Global Health Workforce: From Evidence and Research to Public and Health Care Industry Policy
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Task Shifting to Tackle Health Worker Shortages
  • Where Have All the Workers Gone? The Extent of the Global Healthcare Worker Shortage, Why Workers are Leaving and Some Strategies for Addressing the Crisis
  • Guideline for Incorporating New Cadres of Health Workers to Increase Accessibility and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy
• The GRC currently has 1,572 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications, “Key Piece of the Puzzle: Faith Based Health Services in Sub-Saharan Africa” and “Whole Picture: Strengthening Health Workforce Policies and Planning in Rwanda.”

News

• Somalia and Saudi Arabia have been added to the geographic category.
• The GRC has published an original paper, Community Health Workers: a Review of Concepts, Practice and Policy Concerns.
• The Capacity Project in coordination with the GRC has produced a "Voices from the Capacity Project" that focuses on how the GRC is being used by HRH leaders.
• Are you aware that the GRC provides librarian support to anyone who has a question on HRH resources? To contact us for help or with suggestions, use our online form.
• News articles this month include:
  • World Health Professions Conference on Role and Future of Health Professions Regulation
  • African Health Care Worker Shortage: Forum on Private Sector Responses
  • Demo Launches for iHRIS Qualify: A Health Professional Certification & Licensing System
  • New Frontiers in Primary Health Care: Role of Nursing and Other Health Professions
  • Health Human Resources: Connecting Issues and People 2007 Conference
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Sharing Knowledge on Human Resources for Health: the HRH Global Resource Center
  • Human Resources for Health Planning and Policies for Sierra Leone
  • HRH Fact Sheets
• The GRC currently has 1,529 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publication, "Zanzibar Health Care Worker Productivity Study: Preliminary Study Findings."

News

• The term Staffing Ratio has been added to the subject category.
• Israel, Singapore, Serbia, Czech Republic, Sierra Leone and Zanzibar have been added to the geographic category.
• The GRC coordinated a review of its resources and subject terms with 5 technical area experts to ensure the quality of the collection and taxonomic appropriateness. Based on their recommendations the GRC removed 7 resources judged to be outdate or not useful; added 16 resources on topics identified as critical for the collection; and modified the taxonomy to include better HIV/AIDS classification and is planning a reorganization of the Education and Training resources as well.
• The GRC was proud to post an HRH Leaders in Action Interview with Khamis Khamis, the Head of the Human Resource Division of the Zanzibar Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Tanzania.
• News articles this month include:
  • GHWA Forum 2008 - Health Workforce: the Key to Better Health
  • APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition: Politics, Policy and Public Health
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Towards Better Leadership and Management
• The GRC currently has 1,482 resources and has added 109 new resources this month. Ten of the latest additions are below including two documents the GRC now hosts for the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone: "Sierra Leone Human Resource for Health Development Plan 2006-2010" and "Human Resources for Health Policy in Sierra Leone for the Ministry of Heath and Sanitation;" and two new Capacity Project publications, "Zanzibar Health Care Worker Productivity Study: Preliminary Study Findings" and" Developing the Health Workforce: Training Future Nurses and Midwives in Rwanda."

News

• The terms Counseling and Testing and Mother to Child Transmission have been added to the subject category.
• The GRC was proud to post an HRH Leaders in Action interview with Malena Mohalenyana, the Director of Human Resources for the Ministry of Health in Lesotho.
• News articles since the last newsletter include:
  • Second AAAH Annual Conference on Health Workforce for Rural Health and Primary Care
  • Geneva Health Forum: Strengthening Health Systems and the Global Health Workforce
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • HRH Global Resource Center User Survey
  • Providing the Providers — Remedying Africa's Shortage of Health Care Workers
• The GRC currently has 1,375 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the new Capacity Project publication, “Developing the Health Workforce: Training Future Nurses and Midwives in Rwanda.”

News

• The terms Coping Strategies and Home-Based Care have been added to the subject category.
• Romania, Togo, Guyana and Argentina have been added to the geographic category.
• News articles since the last newsletter include:
  • 7th Annual Global Health Mini-University
  • Fellows Successful in Providing ART in Tanzania
  • Scaling-up High Impact FP/MNCH Best Practices: Technical Meeting
  • Promising HRH Practices: Valuable Resources at the Country Level
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Providing the Providers — Remedying Africa's Shortage of Health Care Workers
  • Capacity Building: What Does It Mean? Millennium Development Goal 6: Malaria, HIV
• The GRC currently has 1,355 resources and has added 143 new resources this month. Ten of the latest additions are below including two new Capacity Project publications, “Guideline for Incorporating New Cadres of Health Workers to Increase Accessibility and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy,” and “Guideline for Outsourcing Human Resources Services to Make Antiretroviral Therapy Rapidly Available in Underserved Areas.”

News

• The GRC has launched a public user survey to get feedback about the usefulness of the site and suggestions about how we can improve the GRC. We encourage all users to take the survey and share your experiences with the GRC.
• Barbara Stilwell has become the first GRC expert reviewer. She will creating reviews of several GRC resources to provide added value to these documents for our users. You can find more information about her in her Reviewer Bio.
• News articles since the last newsletter include:
  • Global Health, Justice and the Brain Drain: Conference on International Health Worker Migration
  • Striking South African Health Workers Dismissed
  • Towards a Scaling-Up of Training and Education for Health Workers: Call for Papers
  • From Grassroots to Global: Partnerships to Strengthen Human Resources for Health
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Health Sector Reforms and Human Resources for Health in Uganda and Bangladesh: Mechanisms of Effect
  • Learning for Performance: a Guide and Toolkit for Health Worker Training and Education Programs
• The GRC currently has 1,214 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including two new Capacity publications, "Working with Faith-Based Organizations to Strengthen Human Resources for Health," and "Health Workforce Innovations: a Synthesis of Four Promising Practices," as well as a new resource hosted by the GRC, "State of Human Resources for Health in Zambia: Findings from the Public Expenditure Tracking and Quality of Service Delivery Survey, 2005/06."

News

• The GRC is proud to release the third HRH Leaders in Action interview:
  • HRH Leaders in Action: Kautoo Mutirua
• The GRC has a new advanced search that has now allows users to:
  • search by keyword or subject, and
  • search or limit by publisher, series, journal, language or date.
• Madagascar has been added to the geographic category.
• News articles this month include:
  • Making It Work: Private Sector Partnerships to Improve Women’s Health
  • Philippines and Bahrain Sign Health Services Cooperation Agreement
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Global HRIS Strengthening: iHRIS Software
• The GRC currently has 1,193 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including new Capacity publication, "Learning for Performance: a Guide and Toolkit for Health Worker Training and Education Programs."

News

• The GRC has a new simple search that provides additional features for users:
  • allows searching by phrases using quotation marks;
  • accepts non-alphanumeric characters;
  • provides the option to filter search results by the category to help refine the choices by subject, country or document type, which also aids new users in finding appropriate subject categories for their topics;
  • gives the number of resources in each category; and
  • provides options for Boolean operators and the ability to restrict results by the date the resource was published.
• The GRC has added a language field to all resources to help users locate documents available in other languages than English.
• All journal records have been updated to include volume and issue information for better citation reference.
• In response to user requests, GRC resources now open in new window so that it is easier to return to search results.
• Honduras has been added to the geographic category.
• News articles this month include:
  • International Task Force Launched to Address Global Shortage of Health Workers
  • Scaling Up Through Partnerships: 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Rwanda Human Resources Assessment for HIV/AIDS Services
  • Strategic Management of the Health Workforce in Developing Countries: What Have We Learned?
• The GRC currently has 1,167 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including four resources from the Christian Health Association’s Conference that the HRH Global Resource Center now hosts with permission from Interchurch Medical Assistance and the authors and the new Capacity Project publication, "Partnership Building: Practical Tools to Help You Create, Strengthen, Assess and Manage Your Partnership or Alliance More Productively."

News

• Staff Performance has been moved up to the main subject category menu.
• News articles this month include:
  • Zimbabwe Health Worker Strike Ends
  • Management Development Institute for HIV/AIDS Service Providers
  • Strengthening Human Resources for Health Course
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Achieving a More Efficient Health Care Workforce
  • Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS: Training Course and Handbook for Community Health Workers
• The GRC currently has 1,138 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the "HRH Action Framework," a joint project of the Capacity Project, the Global Health Workforce Alliance, USAID and WHO; and the latest Capacity Project publication, "Meeting of the Africa Health Workforce Observatory."

News

• The term Quality Improvement has been added to the subject category.
• Belgium and Iraq have been added to the geographic areas.
• News articles this month include:
  • Protecting the Public: Regulatory Best Practice Conference
  • A Call To Action: Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Community Home-Based Care for People and Communities Affected by HIV/AIDS: Training Course and Handbook for Community Health Workers
  • Taking Stock: Health Worker Shortages and the Response to AIDS
• The HRH Global Resource Center currently has 1,119 resources, and 64 new resources have been added since the last newsletter.

News

• There is a new page, HRH Global Resource Center RSS Feeds, that provides instructions on how to set-up a tailored RSS feed to be notified of new resources added to the collection.
• The term "Leadership" has been added to the subject category.
• Marshall Islands, Denmark, Iceland and Japan have been added to the geographic areas.
• The Global Resource Center collaborated to provide resources suggestions for the upcoming Virtual Leadership Development Program.
• News articles this month include:
  • Course on Health Care in Violent, Unstable Environments
  • Christian Health Associations (CHAs) Conference
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Establishing Human Resource Systems for Health during Post-conflict Reconstruction
  • Building Stronger Human Resources for Health through Licensure, Certification and Accreditation
• The HRH Global Resource Center currently has 1,049 resources, and 110 new resources have been added since the last newsletter.

News

• The HRH Global Resource Center is proud to present the second in the HRH Leaders in Action interview series: Interview with Naomi Kyobutungi.
• The Help information now includes instructions on how to "Bookmark the HRH Global Resource Center."
• The terms "Gender Policy," "Health Sector Reform," "Information System Development" and "Distance Education" have been added to the subject category.
• Lebanon and Haiti have been added to the geographic areas.
• The Global Resource Center collaborated to provide resources suggestions for the IntraHealth webpage article on World AIDS Day.
• The Spanish version of the World Health Report is now available.
• News articles this month include:
  • Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Programs
  • Virtual Leadership Development Program (VLDP) for Human Resource Managers in Health Accepting Applications
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health
• The HRH Global Resource Center currently has 940 resources, and 105 new resources have been added since the last newsletter.

News

• In response to user feedback, we have reorganized several subject terms to provide easier access to highly-used resources. The following terms are now main menu items: "Infectious Diseases" (includes "Malaria" and "Tuberculosis"), "Maternal & Child Health" and "Reproductive Health" (includes "Family Planning").
• The term "Workforce Shortage" has been added to the subject category.
• News articles this month include:
  • Nigerian National Health Conference
  • Online Global Conference on Expanding Health Service Access, Quality, and Equity in Developing Countries: the Role of the Private Sector
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Regional Consultation on Human Resources in Health: Critical Challenges
• The HRH Global Resource Center currently has 837 resources, and 82 new resources have been added this month.

News

• The HRH Global Resource Center currently has 757 resources, and 110 new resources have been added this month.
• The Resource Center now has informational flyers available in French and Spanish.
• We now have over 50 subscribers to the Newsletter listserv. Anyone who would like to be emailed this newsletter automatically can sign-up on the Resource Center homepage.
• News articles this month include:
  • Colloquium: Research on Nursing Human Resources for the Health of the People of the Americas
  • Canadian Conference on International Health
  • Meeting of the Africa Health Workforce Observatory
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Health Worker Flight from Sub-Saharan Africa: Patterns, Implications & Mitigating Strategies
  • Human Resources Information Systems Strengthening

Welcome to the HRH Global Resource Center Newsletter. This newsletter provides information on the latest resources, improvements and news from the Resource Center, a digital library devoted to human resources for health (HRH). Please contact us with your questions and suggested resources.

News

• The HRH Global Resource Center currently has over 500 resources, and 113 new resources have been added this month.
• The Resource Center now has informational flyers available in French and Spanish.
• Additional topics have been added to the collection such: infectious diseases; maternal & child health; palliative care; reproductive health and family planning.
• News articles this month include:
  • Global Online Discussion Forum: the Contribution of Nurses and Midwives to Health and the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
  • WHO Launches "Treat, Train, Retain" to Confront HIV-Related Health Worker Shortages
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • One Million More - Mobilizing the African Diaspora Healthcare Professionals for Capacity Building in Africa
  • HRH Strategic Planning