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World Health Worker Week: Recognizing the Work of Laboratory Professionals

Jarret Cassaniti, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs (JHU-CCP) Note: This blog originally appeared on the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Blog. Since I joined K4Health almost two years ago, I have had the privilege of working with the Association of Medical Laboratory...

Five Key Steps to Making the Health Workforce a Post-MDG Priority

By Pape Amadou Gaye, IntraHealth International NOTE: This blog first appeared in IntraHealth International's blog VITAL. This is a pivotal year for the international development community. Fourteen years ago, world leaders gathered at the United Nations headquarters and set eight major goals to...

Celebrating Heroes in Health

Joint World Health Worker Week Statement by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, Global Health Workforce Alliance, Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative Every year on April 7, people from around the world celebrate World Health Day, designed to mark the anniversary of the World Health Organization...

Empowered Health Workers Improve Health Care, One Facility at a Time

By Sarah Dwyer, IntraHealth International Uganda strengthens health service delivery by focusing on the people who provide quality care Agnes Masagawyi provides integrated HIV and family planning counseling to a client in Mbale, Uganda. Courtesy Carol Bales, CapacityPlus/IntraHealth International....

Julia Bluestone of Jhpiego Elected as New Chair of Frontline Health Workers Coalition

Press Inquiries contact: Vince Blaser +1 202-407-9444 or vblaser@intrahealth.org WASHINGTON, DC, March 31, 2014 – The 37 member organizations of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition (FHWC) – an alliance working together to urge greater and more strategic U.S. investment in frontline health workers...

World Health Worker Week 2016

WORLD HEALTH WORKER WEEK 2016 April 3-9, 2016 Global Leaders on Why #HealthWorkersCount Gallery: Health Workers Speak WHWWeek Twitter Chat: #WHWWeek #HealthWorkersCount April 4th 1 PM http://worldhealthworkerweek.tumblr.com/ WHAT IS WORLD HEALTH WORKER WEEK? #WHWWeek World Health Worker Week is an...

Images Save Lives: Frontline health workers improve maternal health outcomes using illustrations

By Julia Nakad, Hesperian Health Guides High in the Andes, the organization DESEA Peru has relied on images to improve local health outcomes. The group found creative ways to use images as a training resource with community health workers locally known as “qhalis” – from the Quechua expression...

Building a Health Workforce To Achieve an AIDS-Free Generation

By Mandy Folse, Director, Frontline Health Workers Coalition At 2 p.m. Eastern today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes up the nomination of Dr. Deborah Birx to be the next leader of one of the great successes in United States foreign assistance – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS...

Ugandan frontline health worker is a natural at saving lives

By Melissa May, Accordia Global Health Foundation The old adage “it takes a village to raise a child” is never more apt than in the lead-up to and first day in that child’s life, especially in rural and remote locations like Uganda’s Kibaale district. The Saving Mothers, Giving Life program — a...

The Health Worker of the Future: Four Key Roles They’ll Play in the 21st Century

By Rebecca Kohler, IntraHealth International The health worker of the future—whether it’s a primary care physician, a community health worker, a faculty member, or other frontline health worker—will be living in a whole new paradigm. The challenges and opportunities will be unique. And health...