Presentations

Role of the Africa Midwives Research Network in Strengthening the Contribution of Nurses and Midwives in Response to HIV/AIDS Epidemic in ECSA Region

This presentation discusses the AMRN role of strengthening nurses and midwives in their responses to HIV/AIDS by improving their knowledge and skills in evidence based practice, research, counseling, advocacy and education. Included is information about the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS problem and some strategies that AMRN has used to address the problem through nurses and midwives.

Malawi's Innovative Scheme for Improving Attraction and Retention of Workers

This presentation was part of the Planning, Developing and Supporting the Health Workforce: Human Resources for Health Action Workshop. It briefly discusses the background and some issues for consideration about Malawi’s plan to retain and recruit health workers.


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Southern Africa Capacity Initiative (SACI) Framework

This presentation was part of the Planning, Developing and Supporting the Health Workforce: Human Resources for Health Action Workshop. It gives an overview of the Southern Africa Capacity Initiative (SACI) Framework, provides examples of SACI applications and discusses the Africa HRH agenda.


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What Can We Learn from Country Studies?

This presentation was part of the Planning, Developing and Supporting the Health Workforce: Human Resources for Health Action Workshop. It discusses the review of 11 country HR assessments including: Malawi, Lesotho, Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique, The Gambia, Ghana and Tanzania. It identifies the challenges faced, the implementation, technical inputs, and the process expertise.

Perspectives about and Models for Supervision in the Health Professions

This presentation is from a Capacity Project sponsored interactive workshop to consider fresh perspectives on supportive supervision, exploring alternative approaches to the standard visiting-supervisor model from within and outside the international health care sector.

Supervision Training: Some Lessons from Kenya

This presentation is from a Capacity Project sponsored interactive workshop to consider fresh perspectives on supportive supervision, exploring alternative approaches to the standard visiting-supervisor model from within and outside the international health care sector.

Leadership for Performance Improvement: a New Approach for Supervision

This presentation is from a Capacity Project sponsored interactive workshop to consider fresh perspectives on supportive supervision, exploring alternative approaches to the standard visiting-supervisor model from within and outside the international health care sector. The presentation discusses a leadership approach to supervision.

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Visiting Supervisor Model: What is the Evidence?

This presentation is from a Capacity Project sponsored interactive workshop to consider fresh perspectives on supportive supervision, exploring alternative approaches to the standard visiting-supervisor model from within and outside the international health care sector.

Migration, Retention and Return of Health Professionals - the Zambian Case: the Challenge of Managing a Health Care System in Crisis

This presentation was part of the Health in Foreign Policy Forum 2006. It covers the face of the human resource for health crisis in Zambia, the migration of health professionals, the impact on health service delivery, current initiatives, country-level solutions, challenges to implementing the HRH strategic plan and options to mitigate the HR crisis in developing countries and the global level. [adapted from author]

Expanding Emergency Obstetric Care: Innovative Role by Federation of Obstetric & Gynecological Societies of India and Indian College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologist

This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, “Expanding Emergency Obstetric Care: Overcoming Challenges in Training and Service Delivery.” It discusses the first planned effort by the the largest association of ob/gyns and its academic wing to help build human resource capacity in India to develop EmOC in rural areas. It also presents the specifics of the training EmOC certification course they have developed to address the issue.

Addressing the Human Resource in Health Crisis: Empowering the Private Not for Profit Health Training Institutions to Play Their Role

This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, “Answering the Call: Innovations in Human Resources by African Faith-Based Organizations.” From the perspective of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau experience, the presentation discusses why the private not-for-profit sector is important in service provision and training; why nurses are in the midst of the human resource crisis; obastacles to increasing the training capacity; and what the PNFP health training institutions are doing to address their weaknesses. [adapted from author]

Health Worker Flight from Sub-Saharan Africa: Patterns, Implications & Mitigating Strategies

This presentation was given at the second annual AAMC Physician Workforce Research Conference, “2020 Vision: Focusing on the Future.” It discusses out migration and brain drain from sub-Saharan Africa and gives an overview of the issues related to this problem, particularly in respect to a project done in Uganda.

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