From Community Health to the Front Lines of COVID-19
How health worker Milton Okumu Maina adapted to the fight against a pandemic.
Esther is a communications assistant for the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Program.
How health worker Milton Okumu Maina adapted to the fight against a pandemic.
Meet Alice Boit, the nurse-in-charge of the Rhonda Dispensary and Maternity health facility in Nakuru Town County, Kenya.
Our USAID-funded Human Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Program has partnered with the government of Kenya to build an even more resilient health workforce, with stronger human resource systems...
A major contributing factor to the chronic health worker shortage in Kenya is the high cost of medical education, which many aspiring Kenyan families cannot afford. Dropout rate of students at the...
The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 gave county governments the responsibility of managing health service delivery, which formed 50-70 percent of the county workforce after devolution. In the former...
Kenya’s Ministry of Health, regulatory boards, and councils that register and license health workers operate independent systems for various management functions. Yet all these systems target a single...
Read how IntraHealth International is supporting Kenya’s Ministry of Health to use human resources data from the integrated human resources information system (iHRIS) for informed decision making...
Health worker shortage is a perennial problem in many sub-Saharan countries. Read how this Kenyan public-private partnership is helping increase the numbers of health workers through an innovative...
County leadership were ill prepared in human resources for health management capacity, leadership structures, and organizational arrangements when the Government of Kenya devolved health service...
This policy brief shares the benefits, and makes a case for institutionalization of training needs assessment (TNA) as a systematic process of identifying gaps in the performance of health service...
Health worker-related industrial unrest has serious negative effects on health service delivery especially on rural poor. Kenya’s health worker strike lasted over 300 days, with the doctors’ strike...