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Global Community of Practice on Health Worker Migration
The Health Worker Migration Policy Initiative invites all individuals, professionals, policy and programme managers and interest groups from around the world to participate in a virtual Global Community of Practice on Health Worker Migration, chaired by Mary Robinson, President of Realizing Rights
How best address the challenges raised by health worker migration? What are the responsibilities of individuals, countries and as global community to support the Code of Practice?
The Global Discussion starts on 31 of March 2008 at 15.00 GMT
To join the global online community of practice, click at this url: http://my.ibpinitiative.org/public/HWMigration/
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The World Health Organization (WHO), supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is calling for expressions of interest from academic institutions who would be interested in running a competency-based postgraduate degree with a focus on health workforce development. These new programmes will contribute to generate leaders who will spearhead the production and management of the health workforce in years to come.
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Editorial Board Member feedback
Professor, University of Toronto
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Rockefeller and HRH - Interview with Dr Ariel Pablos-Méndez at the Kampala Forum
On day four of the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, we spoke to Dr Ariel Pablos-Méndes of the Rockefeller foundation (www.rockfound.org).[Read More]
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"Health workers for all and all for health workers" - GHWA declaration, Kampala day 3
The particpants present at the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health reached agreement on an historic joint declaration today, 4 March 2008. The declaration called on all responsible parties to make a firm commitment to resolving the health workforce crisis as soon as possible, and to turn recent advocacy success and political progress on the matter to concrete action.[Read More]
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Report from Kampala Forum - day 2
On day two of the week-long First Global Forum on human resources for health, our journal, Human Resources for Health occupied a central place in the Forum Market Place. We have been exhibiting and distributing some of our more popular articles and displaying the true global nature of the journal with an interactive display which mapped out countries of focus of a broad selection of our papers. The display was moved to Kampala from the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, where it has been publicizing the journal for the last four months. Interest in the stand and the work of the journal was high, with many delegates to the Forum subscribing to the journal at the stand and leaving comments or recommending future areas of focus for the journal's work.
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"The time for action is now." - Update from the Kampala Forum, day 1
"The time for action is now". At the opening of the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health yesterday evening, this was the phrase on everybody's lips.
The urgency of the need for mobilisation was emphasised by all panelists at the opening press conference of the uprecedented Forum, which represents the culmination of a growing international advocacy effort to raise awareness and inspire leadership at the highest levels to address the global health workforce crisis.
"I hope we as participants...will be able to look back and say: 'I was there'", said Prof Chen, Forum Chair.
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HRH Journal at the First-ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health (2-7 March 2008)
The first ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health will be convened by the Global Health workforce Alliance in Kampala, Uganda (GHWA), from March 2-7, 2008.
The HRH Journal editorial team will be attending the forum and will be posting daily reports from the forum on this blog, including interviews with some of the presenters and particpants of the forum.
As always, we weclome your thought and reactions in the form of comments posted here on our blog or e-mails sent to hrhjournal@who.int .
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HRHJ's second quarterly issue - Your views
We are currently hoping to launch our second quarterly issue in spring 2008 following our aforementioned winter issue on health leadership. What theme / health workforce issue would you be interested in reading about? Let us know and help us choose our next theme. Contact hrhjournal@who.int with your suggestions.
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Global forum on human resources for health in Kampala
"The Global Health Workforce Alliance is to convene the first ever Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Kampala, Uganda from March 2-7, 2008. The Forum will be attended by up to 1000 participants, including government leaders, eminent health, development, civil society, academic and health professional leaders from around the world. This Forum will provide an extraordinary platform for sharing and exploring solutions, consensus and capacity building, and will further galvanize a global movement that is emerging as a response to the increasingly pertinent human resources for health (HRH) crisis.
The Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) is a partnership dedicated to identifying and implementing solutions to the health workforce crisis and is hosted and administered by WHO."
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This would provide information and audio excerpts from our journal in a downloadable format, available on our website. Which issues would you like to hear more about? Please let us know if you would be interested in receiving this and we would welcome any comments! Contact hrhjournal@who.int with your suggestions.
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Winter 2007: Later this year, HRHJ is planning to launch its first quarterly issue. These quarterly issues will consist of a selection of articles all addressing a particular health workforce issue. Our first quarterly issue shall focus on 'Health Leadership'. It will consist of a series of articles addressing health leadership issues along with several case studies used to illustrate and provide examples of inspirational health leaders from around the world.
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Forthcoming international joint special issue
In June 2008, Human Resources for Health shall lead an international joint special issue that involves more than 20 journals publishing articles addressing the broad theme, "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers". Issues such as inadequate compensation and working conditions, the deteriorating health of the workforce in many developing countries, urban/rural and workforce imbalance, and migration of the workforce from developing to developed countries shall all be discussed.
The final deadline for submissions has passed and we were delighted to receive over 200 article proposals from throughout the world concerning the critical need for a skilled and sustainable health workforce. Planned publication is throughout 2008. There will be an online facility to respond to published articles in order to accommodate a live debate.
For those of you who have successfully passed through the initial peer review process, we will be in contact in the near future providing details on submission instructions for the journal your article has been recommended for.
For any queries, please contact: hrhspecial@who.int
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HRHJ recent articles of interest
Browse our recently published articles. In this selection, read about improving reproductive health in Senegal; expanding human resources for HIV/AIDS in Botswana; public health training in Hanoi and the precarious supply of physical therapists across Canada.
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Welcome to the Human Resources for Health Journal Blog
Human Resources for Health Journal is an online, open access, peer reviewed, international journal. Human Resources for Health aims to disseminate and share research on a wide range of topics within the area of human resources for health development.
We would be delighted to count you amongst our subscribed readers and would very much welcome any manuscript submissions. We hope you enjoy this blog to keep you updated on developments in the Human Resources for Health Journal and we welcome any comments or feedback you would like to share.
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