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Newborn Plans: Nurse Leader in Ghana Encourages First-Time Teen Moms to Take Charge of Their Lives

cbishopp — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:02:02 +0000

Newborn Plans: Nurse Leader in Ghana Encourages First-Time Teen Moms to Take Charge of Their Lives cbishopp April 05, 2019

April 05, 2019

Julia is one of countless health workers who go beyond their traditional roles to help clients when, where, and how they need it the most.

Abura Asebu Kwanmankese District, Ghana —

Dorothy Nyarko gave birth at a local health facility on a Saturday and, under the watchful care of a vigilant midwife, returned home in time to take a high school entrance exam that Monday—which she passed.

A mother at 17, Rejoice Agbedanu believed she could best secure her daughter’s future by finishing high school at the boarding school where her aunt teaches. She enrolled, and now spends weekends visiting her baby at her sister’s, and plans to be a TV journalist. With support from other adolescent mothers, Sandra Ewusi Essel learned to ignore the gossip about “a girl like her” and look to the future. She adopted a family planning method and became a peer advocate for other girls.

Photo by Maryalice Yakutchik.

These young mothers in Ghana took charge of their young lives while participating in a first-time parents initiative that they helped to design and develop. It has been an inspiring journey for 85 adolescents in the country’s Central Region. It began with the news of their pregnancy. A number of them, shunned by their parents and rejected by teachers, had been put out of their homes and schools. At least one was contemplating suicide.

Then they met Julia Duodu, a 52-year-old nurse who was organizing the Jhpiego-funded Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) project in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Ghana.

Julia checks in on 16-year-old Gifty Boadu, mother of a six-month-old. Gifty is concentrating on science classes at Abakrampa Senior High and is planning to be a nurse. Photo by Maryalice Yakutchik.

Julia and a team of specially-trained midwives and community health nurses invited the girls, along with any willing partners, parents, and guardians, to help design a program that placed them at the center of a range of support services. The goal: develop life plans, learn how to nurture their plans and carry them out, build self-reliance, and avoid subsequent unplanned pregnancies. Through the project’s human-centered design approach, the adolescents learned to drive the conversation and take control of their own destiny.

Stigma, they learned, whether it involved pregnancy or family planning, was no match for self-esteem and facts.

They identified stigma as a barrier to moving forward, and as detrimental as poverty and another pregnancy. During twice-a-month mothers’ support group meetings and occasional week-long workshops, they wrestled with shame and worked on overcoming their vulnerability and building confidence and resilience. And, they discussed the steps they needed to take to achieve financial independence.

“We taught them how to live with the stigma — and then move on,” Julia says.

Women who had been moms as teens and today were college graduates or professionals were guest speakers, offering the girls an idea of what they too could aspire to be.

Stigma, they learned, whether it involved pregnancy or family planning, was no match for self-esteem and facts. Poverty, they realized, could be beaten, and financial independence gained if, for example, they returned to school and learned to make and market jewelry and soap in the meantime. Alongside the development of marketable skills, they also learned that long-acting reversible contraceptives could offer them complete assurance of no more babies until they were ready to grow their families.

The teen moms wasted no time in crafting plans and acting on them.

Nurse Julia Doudu visits Sandra and her baby Richard. Photo by Maryalice Yakutchik.

In addition to taking care of her baby and studying, Dorothy also began making soap to support herself, a skill she learned during one of two week-long skills workshops sponsored by the ASRH program.

Sandra Ewusi Essel, 17, a gifted student and athlete, was in her junior year of high school when she found out she was pregnant. “I had low self-esteem because my parents said they wasted their money on my schooling. My mother sacked me from the house,” she recalls.

At the mother’s support group, she met other pregnant girls. “I put all the shame aside,” Sandra says. “I thought, it is not only I who has made a mistake, everybody has made a mistake. But I said this mistake is not going to happen again.”

Sandra proudly holds her baby Richard. Photo by Maryalice Yakutchik.

With baby Richard strapped to her back, Sandra now helps run the local mother’s support group which has 32 members, including five whom Sandra recruited. She tells the group that right after Richard was born, she opted for a contraceptive implant that will last five years. Sandra speaks with the confidence of experience when she advises them not to believe all the myths swirling around family planning in her community, where even the traditional healers warn that it can destroy fertility.

It’s not surprising that all the members in her mother’s support group have adopted a family planning method. As has Sandra’s older sister, Jimaimah.

With a passion for restoring pride and confidence in young women by enabling them to tackle careers alongside motherhood, Nurse Julia is one of countless health workers who venture beyond traditional roles to support vulnerable individuals and groups when, where, and how they need it the most.

This post originally appeared on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition blog.

By Maryalice Yakutchik

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Rejoice discusses her future with Julia Duodu, who supports the young mother as she looks forward and up. “My dream is to become a journalist. I want to be a TV presenter doing news and other reporting on stories about women and their rights.” Photo by Maryalice Yakutchik.

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Global Access to Quality, Affordable Care

mnathe — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 17:37:43 +0000

Global Access to Quality, Affordable Care mnathe August 31, 2018

August 31, 2018

This year's Extreme Affordability Conference in Ghana had something new to offer.

Something special happens when stage and subject align. Earlier this summer, after trading air-conditioned ballrooms for steamy tents in sub-Saharan Africa, the Extreme Affordability Conference achieved that alignment. Although the conference has always been about improving access to global health resources, taking the event to Ghana maximized global partnerships in new ways.

Leveraging Combined Strengths and Connections

The University of Utah’s Division of Public Health has been working in Africa for nearly two decades. In 2015, the U opened the Ensign College of Public Health, located about 50 miles northeast of Accra. It was this relationship that seeded the possibility of hosting the sixth annual Extreme Affordability Conference in Ghana. Ensign College administrators embraced the idea and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a medical school in nearby Kumasi, and IntraHealth International also joined as partners.

This year’s theme, “Impacting Health Through Collaboration and Innovation,” emphasized the importance of partnerships in global health. Because Africa is the continent with the greatest need for access to trained providers, it was the ideal backdrop for addressing four pressing global health issues—each using West Africa as a focal point:

accessing surgery as a key to human development;
engaging communities in healthy living;
overcoming demographic challenges to health care; and
expanding human resources for health.

The conference featured a broad base of global health thought leaders, including Delanyo Dovlo, Director of Health Systems and Services for the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa; Emmanuel Makasa, Counsellor-Health for the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the United Nations; Githinji Gitahi, CEO of Amref Health Africa; and Agyeman Badu Akosa, a member of Ensign College’s board and executive director of Healthy Ghana.

Record Turnout in Ghana

Attendance at the 2018 Extreme Affordability Conference hit an all-time high with nearly 200 thought leaders, policy makers, medical and public health practitioners, technologists, investors, and student trainees from the U.S. and West Africa. In spite of inclement weather and suffocating humidity, attendees were actively engaged and walked away with broader perspectives and deeper relationships.

Some, like Rebecca Kohler of IntraHealth International, were moved to share their experiences. Kohler elegantly captures the spirit of the conference and key takeaways in a blog post.

Participation by several venerated international organizations was a great addition this year. These included the United States Agency for International Development, World Health Organization, Jhpiego, Amref Health Africa, and University Research Co. Likewise, it was thrilling to have so many attendees from the University of Utah. They included faculty from several health and medical disciplines, the Center for Medical Innovation, Huntsman Cancer Institute, and the David Eccles School of Business.

Student attendance was also higher than ever this year. Nearly 100 students from the U, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Georgia State University, and Ensign College attended.

Collaboration & Innovation in Action

Through years of development, the Extreme Affordability Conference has created opportunities to foster participation from many health disciplines. The 2018 conference exemplifies collaboration and innovation in action. For example, a mini innovation challenge allowed student trainees to work side-by-side with other conference participants. Together they evaluated seven products currently under development. The winning product was a low-cost, reusable device that uses vacuum extraction to stop profuse bleeding immediately following childbirth, one of the leading causes of maternal death.

Such collaboration is a core value of the U’s global health mission, which is shared by an ever-growing group of global partners. Together, our world-view expands as we learn new ways of delivering health services and align ourselves toward a common goal: health resource access and affordability for all.

This post originally appeared on University of Utah Health's blog, NOTES.

Interested in learning about other switchpoints in global health and development? Or better yet, creating your own? Follow IntraHealth and SwitchPoint on social media and join us for SwitchPoint 2019 next April.

By Juan Carlos Negrette

Director of global health, University of Utah Health

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SwitchPoint Event in Ghana Showcases West Africa’s Humanitarian Tech

mnathe — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:53:04 +0000

SwitchPoint Event in Ghana Showcases West Africa’s Humanitarian Tech mnathe August 02, 2018 August 02, 2018

Humanitarian thinkers and doers from throughout West Africa and the US participated in IntraHealth International’s first Africa-based SwitchPoint event last month as part of the annual Extreme Affordability Conference.

Over 200 students, health workers, academics, scientists, technologists, venture capitalists, artists, and others gathered for the conference, which was hosted by the University of Utah at Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana, to explore the latest in humanitarian technologies and new approaches to improving health and well-being in the region.

“Our friends from Utah invited IntraHealth and our SwitchPoint production team to help create an unusual gathering within the conference,” says Rebecca Kohler, senior vice president for strategy and development at IntraHealth. “Together we infused the academic conference with the creativity, artivism, humanitarian tech, and entrepreneurial energy our annual SwitchPoint conference in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, is known for.”

Microlabs gave participants a chance to design hands-on, practical solutions to real-world problems.

This SwitchPoint event was the first of its kind in Africa and featured topics such as:

The role of photography in global health and development. Ghanaian artist and photographer Nana Kofi Acquah discussed the power of visualization, respect, privacy, identity, and advocacy through the visual arts.
How bicycles are helping more people get health services. Ensign College’s Stephen Adler and Sharon Talboys lead sessions on Health 2 Go, an initiative that equips community health volunteers with high-quality training, a year’s worth of medical supplies, and durable bicycles that are helping them cross Ghana’s rocky terrain and reach the communities most in need.
Effective governance and civil engagement. Jerry Sam of Penplusbytes is developing communication technology platforms for citizen engagement, including reporting and mapping, to fight corruption and promote free and fair elections across West Africa.
Affordable, high-tech platforms for training and education. Kafui Prebbie of TECHAiDE uses information and communication technologies in Africa to improve education, support youth development, and provide the most appropriate technologies for delivering health services. Kafui spoke at SwitchPoint 2018 in April about TECHAiDE’s new low-cost tool, Asanka.

Four microlabs—or interactive breakout sessions—gave participants a chance to work side-by-side with presenters to design hands-on, practical solutions to real-world problems.

And as part of SwitchPoint’s artivism theme, the program featured a live performance by Ghanaian sound artist Steloo, whose performance art piece on drones and surveillance, Drone Scrap Program 2054, intersects with the work of humanitarian organizations like Zipline, which uses drones to deliver medicines and blood to hard-to-reach areas. Yanev Zelnik of Zipline joined via Skype and spoke about new initiatives launching in Ghana in the coming year.

“Unusual gatherings in unusual places—like this SwitchPoint event in Ghana—give us insights into how we can do development differently,” Kohler says, “and how we can perhaps have greater, more lasting impact.”

SwitchPoint Goes to Ghana

mnathe — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 18:52:09 +0000

SwitchPoint Goes to Ghana mnathe July 18, 2018

July 18, 2018

At the Extreme Affordability Conference in Accra, we saw some of the unusual partnerships and switchpoints that are transforming West Africa’s health and tech landscape.

Nestled on the banks of the Volta River, about 50 miles outside of Accra, Ghana, something big is happening.

Ensign College of Public Health in Kpong is quietly demonstrating how its creative partnership with the government of Ghana, private philanthropists, and the University of Utah can serve as a model for preparing the next generation of global health leaders—and for making extreme affordability a reality.

Extreme affordability—that is, making the highest standard of health care universally accessible and affordable to everyone—could be the key to overcoming extreme poverty and achieving universal health coverage, according to the University of Utah, which coined the phrase through its annual Extreme Affordability Conference in Salt Lake City. This year, they held the event in sub-Saharan Africa, where the need is greatest but the opportunity for progress is palpable.

Ghana and its neighbors are tackling the biggest global health challenges of our day.

I was one of more than 200 people, nearly half of whom were students, gathered at Ensign last week to explore how Ghana and countries throughout West Africa are tackling the biggest global health challenges of our day. Global health thought leaders from the region and from around the world challenged participants to be bold, embrace innovation in all its forms, engage deeply with citizens and patients as true partners in achieving their own health aspirations, and partner with those who see the world differently.

Our friends from Utah had invited IntraHealth International and our SwitchPoint production team to help create an unusual gathering within the event, infusing the academic conference with the creativity, artivism, humanitarian tech, and entrepreneurial energy our annual SwitchPoint conference in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, is known for.

Just like at SwitchPoint, my head was spinning and my heart filled with optimism. My fellow participants were surgeons, internal medicine specialists, public health practitioners, researchers, bench scientists, MBAs, venture capitalists, students, artists, photographers, economists, technologists, industrial designers, school teachers, and others, and we were all focused on the innovations underway by Ghanaians, other Africans, and university faculty and staff.

For example, the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business organized a mini innovation challenge where we role-played as investors who must vote on the top health technology innovation among seven products currently under development. The winner was a low-cost, reusable device designed to use vacuum extraction to immediately stop profuse bleeding following childbirth, one of the leading causes of maternal death.

The runner up was the Umbilikit, a device for home delivery kits designed to safely and effectively cut umbilical cords. This idea came from a doctor who regularly found that razor blades went missing from the home delivery kits because there are so many other uses for them in resource-constrained environments.

Just as we do at SwitchPoint, we organized microlabs where participants could have more hands-on experiences with products and ideas.

Unusual gatherings in unusual places offer insights into how we can do development differently.

I was especially inspired during the microlabs by Ghanaian Jerry Sam of Pensplusbytes. His team spent years developing effective communication technology platforms for citizen engagement to promote free and fair elections across West Africa.

Jerry took on the problem of poor-quality health care by applying these same proven technologies to create an integrated SMS, voice, and web-based tool that enables citizen to report problems directly to the authorities responsible for these services and to use civil society pressure to ensure problems are addressed. His team was able to leapfrog over the design challenges typical in creating new tools, and showed results faster and cheaper.

That’s what we call a switchpoint—when two seemingly unrelated fields come together to produce real results.

Unusual gatherings in unusual places, such as the one at Ensign College last week, offer insights into how we can do development differently and perhaps have greater, more lasting impact. Here are some of my recommendations:

Encourage more local institutions to host regional gatherings.

Ensign College not only educates Ghana’s future workforce, but offers top-notch relationships with key country counterparts, strong logistics, and rich insights into the local context. There are growing numbers of indigenous training institutions across sub-Saharan Africa that could host similar events that would raise their profiles and help strengthen their reach and impact.

Deepen relationships among nongovernmental organizations and academic health institutions.

Over the last nine months of conference planning, I gained a deep appreciation for the breadth and depth of University of Utah’s long-term institutional partnerships across many low- and middle-income countries. As countries face the challenge of addressing the evolving burden of disease—whether by expanding emergency medicine, managing diabetes and hypertension, or understanding US patent law—universities bring incredible assets to countries’ efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.

Harness the power of creative convening.

Creative gatherings don’t need to be costly, high-tech, or in the elite halls of Austin or San Francisco. Ghanaians such as photographer Nana Kofi Acquah and performance artist @steloolive are based in Accra, and are making waves on the global stage. And simple interactions among creative people can be the most powerful. Participants received colorful glass bead bracelets, hand-crafted in the Ghanaian tradition by a group organized by the local queen mother. Throughout the conference, we were encouraged to trade them with someone we didn’t know and strike up a conversation.

2018 Extreme Affordability Conference

intrahealth — Wed, 23 May 2018 19:45:07 +0000

2018 Extreme Affordability Conference intrahealth May 23, 2018 July 08, 2018 - July 10, 2018

IntraHealth is a proud co-sponsor of the 2018 Extreme Affordability Conference hosted by the University of Utah with the Ensign College of Public Health (ECOPH) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana.

This conference celebrates health innovations and sheds light on regional insights to challenges facing extreme affordability. It is an agenda-setting event where policymakers, technologists, medical practitioners, development professionals, investors, students, and businesses take steps together toward a world where high-quality health care is universally accessible and affordable to everyone.

IntraHealth's President and CEO, Pape Gaye, is a plenary speaker, and IntraHealth is hosting a SwitchPoint sidebar inspired by our signature annual SwitchPoint event, incuding four interactive breakout sessions led by West African innovators.

IntraHealth staff are giving the following presentations:

Graduating More Health Workers: Approaches to Make Education Affordable
Engaging Communities, Training Surgeons: A Team-Based Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Mali
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Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development

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Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships

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383,000 Women in Francophone West Africa Started Using Modern Contraception in 2017

intrahealth — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:07:01 +0000

383,000 Women in Francophone West Africa Started Using Modern Contraception in 2017 intrahealth January 31, 2018 January 31, 2018

In 2017, the nine countries of the Ouagadougou Partnership together prevented 100,000 unintended pregnancies, 32,000 unsafe abortions, and 400 maternal deaths in francophone West Africa by bringing modern contraceptives to over 383,000 new users. In two years, the partnership has reached 41% of its goal of an additional 2.2 million women in the region using contraceptives by 2020.

Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire are leading the way, reporting last month at the partnership’s annual meeting in Conakry, Guinea, that they added 73,000 and 88,000 women respectively in 2017, surpassing their expected contributions.

West Africa has suffered historically from persistently low contraceptive prevalence rates, largely due to socio-cultural barriers, weak health systems, limited political will, and a lack of resources.

The Ouagadougou Partnership formed in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in February 2011 among the governments of nine francophone West African countries, their technical partners, and donors to accelerate the use of family planning services in the region. The countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.

We are all driven by the same ideals and aspirations, those of: reducing maternal mortality, promoting the development of women and girls, guaranteeing the success of our youth, and contributing to the economic emergence of our countries.

And many countries are making big gains.

The modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) among married women in Burkina Faso has risen from 17.5% in 2012 to 27.3% in 2017. In Cote d’Ivoire, it’s increased from 13.1% to 20.9%, and in Togo from 16.8% to 25.9%.

But the region still as has far to go. The United Nations estimates the region’s mCPR among married women is 20% compared to 43% in East Africa and 63% worldwide.

“We are confident that we will get there,” says Fatimata Sy, director of the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit. “We are all driven by the same ideals and aspirations, those of: reducing maternal mortality, promoting the development of women and girls, guaranteeing the success of our youth, and contributing to the economic emergence of our countries.”

The partnership is designed to improve coordination among donors and partners, optimize resources, and provide more opportunities for countries to learn from each other’s efforts. In 2015, the partnership surpassed its initial goal of reaching one million additional women with modern contraceptives and announced its current, ambitious goal for 2020.

IntraHealth International hosts the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (OPCU) in Dakar, Senegal. The OPCU is jointly funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Key donor members of the Ouagadougou Partnership include Agence Française de Développement (AFD), French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, US Agency for International Development (USAID), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dutch Ministry of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, and Canadian International Development Agency.

Benin Burkina Faso Ghana Mali Mauritania Niger Senegal Togo Family Planning & Reproductive Health Policy & AdvocacyA client receives a contraceptive implant in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Photo by Trevor Snapp for IntraHealth International.Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit

Picture It: Family Planning in Ghana

intrahealth — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:10:01 +0000

Picture It: Family Planning in Ghana

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The Human Resources for Health Effort Index: A Tool to Assess and Inform Strategic Health Workforce Investments

intrahealth — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:03:09 +0000

The Human Resources for Health Effort Index: A Tool to Assess and Inform Strategic Health Workforce Investments 2017 intrahealth August 15, 2017

It’s tough to measure progress on an issue as big and complex as the health workforce. The HRH Effort Index helps.

Despite its importance, the field of human resources for health (HRH) has lagged in developing methods to measure its status and progress in low- and middle-income countries suffering a workforce crisis. Measures of professional health worker densities and distribution are purely numerical, unreliable, and do not represent the full spectrum of workers providing health services. To provide more information on the multi-dimensional characteristics of human resources for health, in 2013–2014, the global USAID-funded CapacityPlus project, led by IntraHealth International, developed and tested a 79-item HRH Effort Index modeled after the widely used Family Planning Effort Index.

The results of applying the index in Burkina Faso, Dominican Republic, Ghana, and Mali are detailed in this article published in Human Resources for Health.

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Countries Burkina Faso Ghana Mali

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Topics Measurement & Analytics Health Workforce & Systems

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By Alfredo L. Fort, Rachel Deussom, Randi Burlew, Kate Gilroy, David Nelson

Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana: A Case Study

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Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana: A Case Study 2013 Anonymous (not verified) October 06, 2016

Like many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana faces health worker shortages, limiting the country’s likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goals. Working together with the stakeholders and partners that make up the Ghanaian health care system, CapacityPlus supported the revitalization of the Ghana Health Workforce Observatory to address key human resources for health issues. This case study discusses the steps taken to revitalize the observatory through the application of Guidelines for Forming and Sustaining Human Resources for Health Stakeholder Leadership Groups. Success factors that contributed to the observatory’s revitalization are highlighted, along with challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations.

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Countries Ghana

Topics Leadership and Governance

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By Amanda Puckett BenDor, James McCaffery, Kathy Alison, Paul Marsden

Dr. Christian Osae Obirikorang: "I'm a Health Worker"

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Dr. Christian Osae Obirikorang: "I'm a Health Worker"

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July 25, 2014

Spend one minute with Dr. Christian Osae Obirikorang, a lecturer in the Department of Molecular Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology's School of Medical Sciences in Kumasi, Ghana.

He explains why he chose to focus on health worker education and how he thinks eLearning will help his school train more doctors and other much-needed medical professionals. IntraHealth’s Carol Bales and Gracey Vaughn interviewed Dr. Obirikorang during a documentation trip to Ghana.

We are going to improve knowledge transfer from the faculty members to the students. It's going to improve the whole health system, at the end of day.

Learn more:

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The "I'm a Health Worker" video series features short, informal conversations with health workers all over the world. Contact us if you’d like to share your own interview with a health worker.

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By Gracey Vaughn

Former special projects advisor, IntraHealth International

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Newborn Plans: Nurse Leader in Ghana Encourages First-Time Teen Moms to Take Charge of Their Lives

Global Access to Quality, Affordable Care

Leveraging Combined Strengths and Connections

Record Turnout in Ghana

Collaboration & Innovation in Action

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SwitchPoint Event in Ghana Showcases West Africa’s Humanitarian Tech

SwitchPoint Goes to Ghana

SwitchPoint Event in Ghana Showcases West Africa’s Humanitarian Tech

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SwitchPoint Goes to Ghana

Encourage more local institutions to host regional gatherings.

Deepen relationships among nongovernmental organizations and academic health institutions.

Harness the power of creative convening.

Read more: SwitchPoint Event in Ghana Showcases West Africa’s Humanitarian Tech

2018 Extreme Affordability Conference

Our Participation

Participants

Pape Gaye

Rebecca Kohler

Heather LaGarde

383,000 Women in Francophone West Africa Started Using Modern Contraception in 2017

Picture It: Family Planning in Ghana

The Human Resources for Health Effort Index: A Tool to Assess and Inform Strategic Health Workforce Investments

Applying Stakeholder Leadership Group Guidelines in Ghana: A Case Study

Dr. Christian Osae Obirikorang: "I'm a Health Worker"