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New Regional Advisors Will Guide Coalition's Health Workforce Policy and Advocacy Work

We're expanding our leadership to include health workers and health workforce experts in the regions where we focus our advocacy.

COVID-19 , Africa , Asia , Community Health Workers , Digital Health , family planning , Gender , Health Workers , HIV/AIDS , Nurses , women , Youth
A New Nurse, a New Virus: Combating COVID-19
Indrani Kashyap, Jhpiego Krithika Murali, Jhpeigo Maryalice Yakutchik, Jhpiego

Chetna Sharma's days—and nights—are full of seeing patients, sharing information about COVID-19, and enlisting the help of community leaders.

#FrontlinePerspectives , Nurses , women , Jhpiego
These Nurses Are Shining a Light on the Gender Barriers They Face at Work
Samantha Rick

The obstacles that keep many nurses out of leadership roles are systemic, structural, and age-old.

women , Nurses , IntraHealth International
Advancing Nurse Leadership in the Health Workforce

By: Dr. Vanessa Kerry, Co-founder and CEO, Seed Global Health A stark example of the entrenched barriers to nursing leadership was made evident to me on a trip to meet with partners from leading training institutions. We were to discuss ways we could collaboratively advance medicine, nursing, and...

Nurses , women , health workforce financing
It’s Time to NORMAL-ize Menstrual Bleeding Changes for Contraceptive Users
Kate H. Rademacher Jill Sergison

This World Menstrual Hygiene day take a look at some of the tools and practices that frontline health workers around the world use to help women understand the menstrual changes that can take place in their body while using hormonal contraception.

women , family planning , education and training
Midwives Can Reduce the Number of Preventable Deaths From Pre-Eclampsia: Research from Kenya and Nigeria
Amy Dempsey

This International Day of the Midwife, learn from the Population Council on how they are working with midwives to reduce preventable deaths from Pre-Eclampsia.

family planning , maternal and child health , Midwives , women
Enabling and Elevating Midwives with “Whole-System” Support
H.E. Madame Toyin Saraki / Wellbeing Foundation Africa Rachel Deussom, Chemonics International

This International Day of the Midwife, let's support midwives so they can reach their full potential and be the change agents we need.

Midwives , women , International Day of the Midwife
Why Hospital Medical Equipment Maintenance Is So Critical To Saving Lives, As Told By One of Tanzania’s Few Female Biomedical Engineering Technicians
Taylor Birnbaum Jessie Cohen

Meet Nziza Pachal Rufutu, a 28 year old woman working a biomedical engineering equipment technician in Tanzania. Nziza supports frontline health workers and ensures that critical health equipment is operating to the highest possible standard.

Africa , Touch Foundation , women
From Malaria Prevention to Postpartum Family Planning, Midwives Are Changing the Story for Women in Rural Senegal
Margarite Nathe IntraHealth International Editorial Team

For our World Health Worker Week blog series, we are featuring a number of posts that focus on different cadres of health workers, within health workforce teams. This great piece from IntraHealth International focuses on a midwife named Fatou in Senegal.

Africa , maternal and child health , IntraHealth International , women
Newborn Plans: Nurse Leader in Ghana Encourages First-Time Teen Moms to Take Charge of Their Lives
Maryalice Yakutchik, Jhpiego

For our World Health Worker Week blog series, we are featuring a number of posts that focus on different cadres of health workers, within health workforce teams. This piece from Jhpiego focuses on Nurse Julia Doudu in Ghana.

Africa , Jhpiego , women , #WHWWeek , Nurses
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