Community Health Workers Save Lives
In places where there are no nurses or doctors or people have to travel a distance to see one, community health workers play an invaluable role of offering basic health care and information to often isolated or remote communities
The ‘Fatal Flow’ of Health Worker Migration
More than a year after its devastating earthquake, Haiti is still struggling to recover and rebuild its health system.
A Shout Out to 29 Amazing Zambian Women and 1 Man Caring for Their Community
I met an amazing group of people in Zambia: the Chishilano Home-Based Care Group at the Shelazi Centre. They are a group of about 30 volunteers, who care for people in their community living with HIV/AIDS.
Without the User, There Is No System: Harnessing Technology through the eHealth Workforce
When we talk about building strong health systems and the health workers needed to run these systems, we often think about doctors or nurses or community health workers. Just as crucial to health...
An Imperative to Act: Family Planning in West Africa
Earlier this month, I was in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso with delegates from eight French-speaking West African countries* for the conference, “Family Planning in the context of Population and Development: the Urgency to Act.”
Where is the Evidence on Building Sustainable Health Systems in a World of Unrest?
Civil unrest is spreading quicker than a pandemic across the Middle East and North Africa. How will these events affect people’s health and the health systems in these countries?
Open Source at the State Department: Loud, Timely, Not Your Parents’ State Department
Last Friday, I was in Washington, D.C., for Tech@State’s Open Source Conference. Tech@State is an inspiring step by the State Department, connecting technologists to targeted goals of the U.S. diplomacy and development agenda via networking events as part of Secretary Clinton's 21st Century Statecraft initiative.
Local Solutions, Global Solidarity, and Accountability
While the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health was full of opportunities, it was also quite deficient in addressing the one global issue that continues to hinder progress.
What Brought Us Here Won’t Get Us There: Implementing Country-level Health Workforce Development Plans
Three years ago, we met in Kampala, Uganda, to discuss the critical needs of the global health workforce. Last week in Bangkok, we gathered to take stock of what we’ve accomplished since. Today, 86%...
