Newsletter Archive
HRH Global Resource Center December Newsletter
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- Special Highlight: In response to requests from our users, the GRC has an improved navigation menu and new features including:
- Latest Added Resources Page: The HRH Global Resource Center collection grows quickly. Visit the Latest Resources Page to easily find the most recent additions.
- Rate Resources: You can now click on one of the five stars at the bottom of each resource page to let others know which resources you found useful and help GRC staff decide which resources should be removed.
- More to come! The GRC will be announcing other improvements in the coming months, so be sure to visit the site to see all the new features.
- Italy has been added to the geographic category
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,866 resources including “Focusing on the Essentials: Learning for Performance” an article published in Human Resources for Health by Cathy Murphy and some of the latest Capacity Project publications: “HIV for Health Workers: Perceptions and Needs,” “Study on Workplace Violence within the Health Sector in Rwanda: Final Report” and “National Impact: Local Ownership of Health Workforce Initiatives in Uganda.” You can see all of the latest additions on our new Latest Resources Page.
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HRH Global Resource Center November Newsletter
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- Fiji and Samoa have been added to the geographic category
- The GRC has launched a new and improved version of the site that includes some exciting additional features. More information about these features will be coming soon, and we encourage you to explore the updated GRC.
- News articles this month include:
- International Conference on Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health
- International Conference on Scaling Up
- PEPFAR Reauthorization Passes U.S. Senate
- Care and Support Program for People Living with HIV/AIDS
- Fifteenth Canadian Conference on International Health
- Global Health Challenges and Opportunities in Africa Conference
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,831 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publication: "Human Relations: Building Leadership in Southern Sudan's Health Sector."
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HRH Global Resource Center October Newsletter
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- Kuwait has been added to the geographic category
- News articles this month include:
- International Forum on HIV and AIDS in Conflict, Post-Conflict and Emergency Contexts
- International Training Program on Evaluating Health Care Interventions
- International Conference on Workplace Violence in the Health Sector
- WHO Public Hearings on Draft Code for International Recruitment of Health Personnel
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,820 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including two Capacity Project publications: "Better Service for the Client and the Community: Strengthening HIV Training in Belize," and "Susan's Story: Keeping Secrets and Promoting Family Planning in Rural Kenya."
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HRH Global Resource Center September Newsletter
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- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- Double Burden of Human Resource and HIV Crises: a Case Study of Malawi
- Interoperability and the Impacts of Health Information Systems
- Forecasting the Global Shortage of Physicians: an Economic and Needs Based Approach
- Crisis in Human Resources for Health Care and the Potential of a Retired Workforce: Case Study of the Independent Midwifery Sector in Tanzania
- Guidelines: Incentives for Health Professionals
- The GRC currently has 1,787 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications: “Data Quality Considerations in Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) Strengthening,” “Mid-Term Evaluation of the Kenya Emergency Hiring Plan,” “Overview of Human Resources for Health (HRH) Projection Models,” and “Building the Bridge from Human Resources Data to Effective Decisions: Ten Pillars of Successful Data-Driven Decision-Making.”
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HRH Global Resource Center July Newsletter
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- Oman has been added to the geographic category.
- The GRC has published an original resource created by the Capacity Project and the Ministry of Health in Uganda, Mapping the Human Resources Management Processes in Uganda.
- French versions of all the Capacity Project Technical Briefs are now available on the GRC.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,753 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications "Yielding Very Positive Results: Improving Decentralized HIV Services in Costa Rica."
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HRH Global Resource Center June Newsletter
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- The GRC has published an original user submitted resource, Role of Networking in Managing Migration of Human Resources for Health in the Philippines.
- Barbara Stilwell has contributed the GRC’s first expert resource review to add valuable critical feedback to a GRC resource. You can also or see her Reviewer Bioto learn more about her.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,751 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications "Working from the Inside: Mainstreaming HIV into Government Planning in Kenya" and "I Can Make a Difference in One's Family Life: Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Ethiopia" as well as a letter in The Lancet written by Barbara Stilwell, Anne Wilson and Jim McCaffery "Non-Physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa."
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HRH Global Resource Center May Newsletter
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- The GRC has launched the first online video version of its HRH Leaders in Action interview series with Dr. Eddie Mukooyo.
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Dominica and Trinidad & Tobago have been added to the subject category.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,733 resources, and 77 have been added this month. Ten of the latest additions are below.
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HRH Global Resource Center April Newsletter
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- Health Sector Managers has been added to the subject category.
- The IntraHealth website has posted a news article, "Featured at the Conference on Global Health - The HRH Global Resource Center."
- The IntraHealth site also now includes an RSS feed of all the GRC Resource Spotlight articles in attractive, easy to read format.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,661 resources, and 65 have been added this month. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications, "Assessment of the Additional Duties Hours Allowance (ADHA) Scheme: Final Report" and "Planning, Developing and Supporting the Health Workforce: Human Resources for Health (HRH) Action Workshop."
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HRH Global Resource Center March Newsletter
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- Work Environment has been added to the subject category.
- Are you aware that the GRC provides librarian support to anyone who has a question on HRH resources? To contact us for help or with suggestions, use our online form.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC published the latest HRH Leaders in Action Interview with Adeline Kimambo.
- The GRC currently has 1,597 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publications, "Linking Up: Creating a Complete Picture of Swaziland's Health Workforce," "Looking to the Future: Improving Family Planning Access and Quality in Rwanda," "Assessing the Human Resource Capacity for Implementation of the National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Process Description and Tool Library," and "Human Resource for Health (HRH) Strategic Planning."
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HRH Global Resource Center February Newsletter
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- Latvia, Switzerland, Lithuania and Estonia have been added to the geographic category.
- The GRC has reorganized the Education and Training category to better classify the resources and make it easier for users to navigate. The new section has the following categories:
- Education and Training – general documents about educating and training health workers
- Continuing Education – resources about continuing education for health workers
- Curriculum - curriculum that can be used to train health workers
- Training Effectiveness – resources that discuss the impact of training programs
- Training Interventions – resources concerned with health worker training programs
- In-Service Training – resources about training programs for current health workers
- Pre-Service Education – resources about training programs for future health workers
- Training Methodologies – resources about developing training systems and different methods of training
- Distance Education – information about health worker training that can be done remotely
- Training of Trainers – resources on how to train health worker trainers
- Course on Health Systems Through Conflict and Recovery
- Conference on Migrant Health in Europe
- Community-Based Family Planning Workshop
- Global Alliance for Pre-Service Education
- Second Global Summit on HIV/AIDS, Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge
- Berkeley Conference on the Global Health Workforce: From Evidence and Research to Public and Health Care Industry Policy
- Task Shifting to Tackle Health Worker Shortages
- Where Have All the Workers Gone? The Extent of the Global Healthcare Worker Shortage, Why Workers are Leaving and Some Strategies for Addressing the Crisis
- Guideline for Incorporating New Cadres of Health Workers to Increase Accessibility and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy
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HRH Global Resource Center December Newsletter
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- Somalia and Saudi Arabia have been added to the geographic category.
- The GRC has published an original paper, Community Health Workers: a Review of Concepts, Practice and Policy Concerns.
- The Capacity Project in coordination with the GRC has produced a "Voices from the Capacity Project" that focuses on how the GRC is being used by HRH leaders.
- Are you aware that the GRC provides librarian support to anyone who has a question on HRH resources? To contact us for help or with suggestions, use our online form.
- News articles this month include:
- World Health Professions Conference on Role and Future of Health Professions Regulation
- African Health Care Worker Shortage: Forum on Private Sector Responses
- Demo Launches for iHRIS Qualify: A Health Professional Certification & Licensing System
- New Frontiers in Primary Health Care: Role of Nursing and Other Health Professions
- Health Human Resources: Connecting Issues and People 2007 Conference
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,529 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publication, "Zanzibar Health Care Worker Productivity Study: Preliminary Study Findings."
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HRH Global Resource Center October Newsletter
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- The term Staffing Ratio has been added to the subject category.
- Israel, Singapore, Serbia, Czech Republic, Sierra Leone and Zanzibar have been added to the geographic category.
- The GRC coordinated a review of its resources and subject terms with 5 technical area experts to ensure the quality of the collection and taxonomic appropriateness. Based on their recommendations the GRC removed 7 resources judged to be outdate or not useful; added 16 resources on topics identified as critical for the collection; and modified the taxonomy to include better HIV/AIDS classification and is planning a reorganization of the Education and Training resources as well.
- The GRC was proud to post an HRH Leaders in Action Interview with Khamis Khamis, the Head of the Human Resource Division of the Zanzibar Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Tanzania.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,482 resources and has added 109 new resources this month. Ten of the latest additions are below including two documents the GRC now hosts for the Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone: "Sierra Leone Human Resource for Health Development Plan 2006-2010" and "Human Resources for Health Policy in Sierra Leone for the Ministry of Heath and Sanitation;" and two new Capacity Project publications, "Zanzibar Health Care Worker Productivity Study: Preliminary Study Findings" and" Developing the Health Workforce: Training Future Nurses and Midwives in Rwanda."
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HRH Global Resource Center September Newsletter
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- The terms Counseling and Testing and Mother to Child Transmission have been added to the subject category.
- The GRC was proud to post an HRH Leaders in Action interview with Malena Mohalenyana, the Director of Human Resources for the Ministry of Health in Lesotho.
- News articles since the last newsletter include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,375 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the new Capacity Project publication, “Developing the Health Workforce: Training Future Nurses and Midwives in Rwanda.”
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HRH Global Resource Center August Newsletter
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- The terms Coping Strategies and Home-Based Care have been added to the subject category.
- Romania, Togo, Guyana and Argentina have been added to the geographic category.
- News articles since the last newsletter include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,355 resources and has added 143 new resources this month. Ten of the latest additions are below including two new Capacity Project publications, “Guideline for Incorporating New Cadres of Health Workers to Increase Accessibility and Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy,” and “Guideline for Outsourcing Human Resources Services to Make Antiretroviral Therapy Rapidly Available in Underserved Areas.”
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HRH Global Resource Center July Newsletter
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- The GRC has launched a public user survey to get feedback about the usefulness of the site and suggestions about how we can improve the GRC. We encourage all users to take the survey and share your experiences with the GRC.
- Barbara Stilwell has become the first GRC expert reviewer. She will creating reviews of several GRC resources to provide added value to these documents for our users. You can find more information about her in her Reviewer Bio.
- News articles since the last newsletter include:
- Global Health, Justice and the Brain Drain: Conference on International Health Worker Migration
- Striking South African Health Workers Dismissed
- Towards a Scaling-Up of Training and Education for Health Workers: Call for Papers
- From Grassroots to Global: Partnerships to Strengthen Human Resources for Health
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,214 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including two new Capacity publications, "Working with Faith-Based Organizations to Strengthen Human Resources for Health," and "Health Workforce Innovations: a Synthesis of Four Promising Practices," as well as a new resource hosted by the GRC, "State of Human Resources for Health in Zambia: Findings from the Public Expenditure Tracking and Quality of Service Delivery Survey, 2005/06."
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HRH Global Resource Center May Newsletter
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- The GRC is proud to release the third HRH Leaders in Action interview:
- The GRC has a new advanced search that has now allows users to:
- search by keyword or subject, and
- search or limit by publisher, series, journal, language or date.
- Madagascar has been added to the geographic category.
- News articles this month include:
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HRH Global Resource Center April Newsletter
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- The GRC has a new simple search that provides additional features for users:
- allows searching by phrases using quotation marks;
- accepts non-alphanumeric characters;
- provides the option to filter search results by the category to help refine the choices by subject, country or document type, which also aids new users in finding appropriate subject categories for their topics;
- gives the number of resources in each category; and
- provides options for Boolean operators and the ability to restrict results by the date the resource was published.
- The GRC has added a language field to all resources to help users locate documents available in other languages than English.
- All journal records have been updated to include volume and issue information for better citation reference.
- In response to user requests, GRC resources now open in new window so that it is easier to return to search results.
- Honduras has been added to the geographic category.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,167 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including four resources from the Christian Health Association’s Conference that the HRH Global Resource Center now hosts with permission from Interchurch Medical Assistance and the authors and the new Capacity Project publication, "Partnership Building: Practical Tools to Help You Create, Strengthen, Assess and Manage Your Partnership or Alliance More Productively."
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HRH Global Resource Center March Newsletter
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- Staff Performance has been moved up to the main subject category menu.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The GRC currently has 1,138 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the "HRH Action Framework," a joint project of the Capacity Project, the Global Health Workforce Alliance, USAID and WHO; and the latest Capacity Project publication, "Meeting of the Africa Health Workforce Observatory."
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HRH Global Resource Center February Newsletter
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- The term Quality Improvement has been added to the subject category.
- Belgium and Iraq have been added to the geographic areas.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The HRH Global Resource Center currently has 1,119 resources, and 64 new resources have been added since the last newsletter.
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HRH Global Resource Center January Newsletter
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- There is a new page, HRH Global Resource Center RSS Feeds, that provides instructions on how to set-up a tailored RSS feed to be notified of new resources added to the collection.
- The term "Leadership" has been added to the subject category.
- Marshall Islands, Denmark, Iceland and Japan have been added to the geographic areas.
- The Global Resource Center collaborated to provide resources suggestions for the upcoming Virtual Leadership Development Program.
- News articles this month include:
- Resource Spotlights include:
- The HRH Global Resource Center currently has 1,049 resources, and 110 new resources have been added since the last newsletter.
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