Voices

• Reaching into the Community: Health Workers and Population Growth

  Now that the Earth’s population is seven billion and growing every day—women in Mali, for example, have an average of 6.4 children —how do we help ensure that people will have access to lifesaving health care? The WHO breaks it down like this: 2.3 doctors, nurses, and...

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• Motivating Health Workers to Serve in Rural Lao PDR

  Suppose you’ve just graduated from nursing school in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Would you accept a post at a health center so remote that getting there requires a bus trip to Vietnam and a long walk back across the border? You may have one other colleague there, but...

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• Improving Health Systems with the Power of
  Open Source

  Alvin Marcelo believes in the power of health information technology to improve health outcomes. But in the Philippines, where he lives, “no single software can serve all the needs of everyone in the health sector,” he says, and there are numerous applications in use. How can he make...

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• Tracking All Health Workers in Botswana

  Kabelo Bitsang works at the Botswana Ministry of Health. His job is to help the Ministry know enough about the country’s health workers so it can plan effectively for recruitment, training, and retention. Without current data on health workers, countries can’t ensure that the...

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• Faith-Based Organizations: Using HR Management to Support Health Workers

  Faith-based organizations play a key role in global health care. According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 30% to 70% of the health infrastructure in Africa is owned by FBOs. They also provide education and training for a significant portion of health workers, especially nurses...

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• Implementing Health Workforce Plans Together

  One billion people will never see a health worker during their lives. The Global Health Workforce Alliance shared this startling fact during the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health . While there was much to celebrate at the forum, access to skilled health workers is still...

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• Celebrating a ‘Brilliant Visionary’:
  Malian Midwife Makes a Difference

  Fatoumata Maïga Dicko is a proud Malian midwife who has never regretted her career choice. “I was actually inspired by another midwife,” she shares. ”She had a great reputation, and everyone spoke highly of her. When I saw how good she was to other women, she made me...

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• Voices from the Field: Sangeeta Delivers—Helping Indian Women, Infants Survive Childbirth

  “I am not an expert like others, many things taught are new to me, and I don’t know how I will remember them all. I don’t know how I will conduct delivery during the clinical training sessions.” Training Gives Confidence to Auxiliary Nurse Midwives Sangeeta Kumari is...

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• Country Action for the Health Workforce:
  A Powerful Framework

  In Papua New Guinea, Mary Roroi sought to help strengthen the country’s health workforce. And in Pakistan, Dr. Zulfiqar Khan was facing the same challenge. They discovered a tool that’s proving helpful. “We have introduced the HAF to the human resources officers who are...

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• Partnering to Keep Health Workers in the Communities That Need Them

  To increase access to health care, we need more health workers. And we need them to be where the people are—not just in cities but in remote areas too. Of course, attracting health workers to rural service isn’t easy, nor is keeping them there. About half of all people on the...

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