Global Health Sustainability: Focusing on the Workforce

1
Global Health Sustainability Focusing on the
Workforce

• Nigel Crisp
• 24 September 2007

2
Background

• Global Health Partnerships
• GHWA Taskforce on scaling up education and
  training
• What works in practice in a local situation - and
  the need for continuous learning and evaluation

3
Vertical Programmes

• The international agencies and partnerships
  such as IHP- are changing their approach
• A single conversation and country plans and
  data with transparency and audit
• Generic and pre-service training

4
Workforce depletion and brain drain

• The movement of people and transfer of knowledge
  is desirable, but so is continuity and community
• A global problem, with developed countries
  responsibilities as global employers
• Understanding and tackling the "push" factors
• Policies of "localness" - for rural migration as
  well as international

5
Supporting new Public Health Institutions

• Existing as well as new institutions
• Structured collaborative learning, between
  institutions in developing countries, best
  practice and knowledge management
• Partnerships between institutions in developing
  and more developed countries
• Strengthening leadership ultimately leadership
  is local