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Sep 2, 2010
Boston University Honors IntraHealth Project Director among Distinguished Alumni

Boston University’s School of Public Health has selected Carol Karutu, IntraHealth International project director for Southern Sudan , to receive one of its three 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards. The awards honor alumni recognized by the School of Public Health for their outstanding... » Read more
Aug 27, 2010
IntraHealth welcomes new field leaders in Rwanda and Senegal

IntraHealth is pleased to welcome Dr. Babacar Gueye as the chief of party for the Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health/Family Planning/Malaria Project in Senegal and Mr.... » Read more
Aug 23, 2010
Uganda Ministry of Health Takes Next Steps with HRH Retention Strategy

Stakeholders from the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH), universities, faith-based organizations, and other partners participated in meetings in July led by Capacity Plus staff member Wanda Jaskiewicz. They discussed and planned for field testing of a rapid rural retention assessment tool... » Read more
Aug 12, 2010
CapacityPlus Paper on HR Information Systems Presented at Health Workforce Conference

A paper by Capacity Plus ’s Dykki Settle, Carl Leitner, Carol Bales, and consultant George Blair, “Using Routine Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) to Manage, Measure, and Monitor the Health Workforce,” was presented at the International Conference on Research in Human... » Read more
Aug 10, 2010
Moving Ahead with the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health

From July 26-28, Capacity Plus leaders took part in a coordinators’ meeting in Tokyo to contribute to planning the Global Health Workforce Alliance Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health . Maurice Middleberg, Capacity Plus director and IntraHealth International vice... » Read more
Aug 5, 2010
Presentation on iHRIS Wins Awards at International Conference in Tanzania

At the 34 th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fare on July 7, a team of faculty and students from the University of Dar es Salaam won two awards for an exhibit showcasing their collaborative efforts with the IntraHealth International-led Tanzania Human Resource Capacity Project and other... » Read more
Jul 30, 2010
New Initiative Encourages Countries to Address HRH Challenges

Wilma Gormley, of USAID-funded Capacity Plus (led by IntraHealth International), assisted in designing and facilitating a workshop in Cairo, Egypt, held July 12–14, that launched a new initiative of the Global Health Workforce Alliance . The Country Coordination and Facilitation... » Read more
Jul 21, 2010
Improving Health Worker Recruitment in Uganda

Recruiting and hiring health workers in Uganda can be a difficult and time-consuming task. It takes great effort to weed through the mass of applications for each vacant... » Read more
Jul 20, 2010
Work Climate Improvement: Addressing HIV in the Workplace

Although the HIV epidemic is widely recognized as one of the world’s largest public health crises, its effects on the health sector’s work environment and role in the global health worker shortage are often overlooked. HIV places great burdens on health systems to provide treatment... » Read more
Jul 9, 2010
The Namibia Economist Features IntraHealth’s IT Work

The Namibia Economist released an article on July 10 focused on IntraHealth’s work to build the IT infrastructure of the health system in Namibia. IntraHealth is supporting the Namibian government to better manage its health workforce through implementation of a human resources... » Read more