Presentations

This presentation discusses de-isolating health care professionals through the RAFT telemedicine network that provides a network of health profesionals, low-bandwidth distance education, teleconsulations with communities of experts, an expertise center and a virtual internet patient simulator. [adapted from author]

This presentation from the Family Planning Conference in Dakar discusses mobile’s unprecedented reach and its role in providing new family planning channels and partners for donors, quality improvement and collaboration among family planning projects. [adapted from author]

This webinar’s presentation includes: defining the community health worker (CHW), case study of a CHW, CHW core roles and competencies, core values and code of ethics, and CHW-health educator partnership opportunities. [from author]

This presentation discusses the United States’ implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, the challenges and next steps. [adapted from author]

Topics covered by this presentation include: the global backdrop; HRH in context; key HRH policy issues; interpreting the evidence base; HRH in the Pacific; and key priniciples for addressing HRH. [adapted from author]]

This presentation covers: global trends for maternal and childe survival; determinants of MDGs; current knowledge on what works and the role of human resources for health; and the role of innovations in scaling up. [adapted from author]

This presentation discusses effective and detrimental health worker environment models and definitions and the impact these have on heath worker performance.

This presentation discusses the impact of public health emergencies on the health workforce and planning needs for addressing it.

This presentation provides a background to HRH finance, identifies the key HRH cost components, the fiscal space for HRH and expanding the HRH fiscal space. [adapted from author]

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. It introduces the issues and challenges in HRH in 13 Pacific Island Nations leading to a proposed scheme to manage HRH migration and mobility. [adapted from author]

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. The presention outlines the background of decentralization in the health sector including its meaning, forms, drivers, benefits and pitfalls. It also introduces the opportunities and challenges for HRH managment in a decentralized system and the concept of recentralization. [adapted from author]

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. It discusses health worker shortages, maldistribution, international health care labor markets, policy mix, factors contributing to migration, international recruitment and its ethical context. [adapted from author]

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. The author outlines the issues of workforce planning and discusses tools and methodologies for effective planning.

This presentation was part of the University of New South Wales’ short course on managing human resources for health. It outlines an attempt to create a new form of health workforce to not only fill a gap but to deliver services better than traditional health professionals. [adapted from author]

This presentation outlines an intervention that introduced PDAs or Smartphones for data collection in Nigeria to improve the supervision, assessment and creation of action plans for quality improvement in facilities where tuberculosis (TB) is diagnosed and treated. [adapted from author]

This presentation for the 2008 AIDS Conference outlines the issues in providing HIV treatement with an HRH shortage, task shifiting to lay providers and community health workers (CHWs), trends in lay workers in sub-Saharan Africa, and lessons learned for successful task shifting.

This presentation is an overview of the Ethiopian experience in strengthening human resources for health as a strategic approach to integrate services and improve productivity for family planning. [from publisher]

This presentation from the 2006 International AIDS Conference outlines discriminatory practices to people living with HIV/AIDS in health care settings, contributing factors, impact on access to care, and changing health care workers’ attitudes. [adapted from author]

This presentation outlines the successful School of Health Science’s Indira Gandhi National Open University program to democratise higher education; provide cost-effective, quality education to a large section of the population; provide higher education to developing countries; and become a pioneer in distance education for health managers and medical educators. [adapted from author]

This presentation outlines Management for Science’s Virtual Programs (such as health leadership development, strategic planning and human resources management), how they work and the results they have achieved. [adapted from author]

This presentation outlines FAIMER’s work to create an online network of health educators for collaboration and support to strengthen and expand leadership and management skills and education methods; and to stregthen the field of health education through distance courses. [adapted from author]

This presentation outlines a study to identify lessons learned which can guide and maximize the impact of distance education for health workers. [adapted from author]

This presentation outlines human resources for health context; post- qualification training priorities; training design for performance; and a conceptual framework for approaches to health worker training - particularly focusing on distance learning approaches and effectiveness. [adapted from author]

This presentation defines health workers, their importance, the shortage, geographical distribution, the HRH situation, health workforce policies and planning aspects (financing, education, management systems, leadership, policy, partnership, critical success factors), and projection approaches. [adapted from author]

This brief presentation provides an overview of the importance and impact of human resource management in addressing the health workforce crisis.

This presentation was a part of a 2009 Global Health Mini-University and covers acheiving health information for all; defining knowledge for health; information needs, capacity and delivery preferences of health professionals; and extending the reach and use of health information. [adapted from author]

This presentation for the APHA Annual Meeting illustrates the use of geographic and health information systems to identify gaps in service delivery and vaccination coverage in Yemen in order to assign human and technical resources.

This presentation provides an overview of the health workforce in Africa, the causes of the workforce crisis and solutions, financing the health workforce and global attention to the issues. [from author]

This presentation dicusses the import of task shifting to providing health care and AIDS treatment programs to low-resource countries in Africa using Mozambique as an example.

This session will focus on different model programs incorporating novel techniques to optimize training of health workers. Discussion will include the realities of brain drain, health worker migration, and maintaining a vibrant health workforce. [from author]