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A Solution Pathway for Preterm Birth

By Sarah B. Alexander Director of External Relations, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), an initiative of Seattle Children’s When Megan suddenly goes into labor at just 25 weeks gestation, she rushes to the hospital and gives birth to Sophia 15 weeks early. Sophia is...

Q&A With EGPAF’s new Director of Health Systems Strengthening

By Chelsea Bailey, Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation This fall, Francesca Celletti, MD, joined the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) as the new Director of Health Systems Strengthening. We sat down with Dr. Celletti to talk about the hallmarks of a robust health system, how...

A Commitment Is a Promise, a Promise Is a Debt

By Judith Winkler, IntraHealth International Note: This blog was originally published in IntraHealth’s blog Vital. From A to Z, countries lined up to announce their commitments to health workers at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil, last week. Delegate after...

Make Recife Count: Adapt HRH to the UHC Agenda

Jonathan Jay, Management Sciences for Health Note: This piece was originally posted on Devex.com. Frontline Health Workers Coalition Chair Mary Beth Powers moderates a session on advocating for policy change at the Third Global Forum for Human Resources for Health in Recife, Brazil. Worldwide, there...

Health workforce report feels like Groundhog Day for global health

By Mary Beth Powers, Frontline Health Workers Coalition and Save the Children Groundhog Day is the day in February where in the United States, people wait for a groundhog to emerge from his underground winter home to see if he sees his shadow. If he does, it means we will have 6 more weeks of winter...

Aligning for Access: Family Planning, Health Workers and Universal Health Coverage

By Fabio Castaño and Jonathan Jay, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) Photo by Warren Zelman. Courtesy MSH. In a week and a half, as a team of our colleagues arrive in Ethiopia for this year’s International Conference on Family Planning, others will already be in Brazil for the Third Global Forum...

Closing the Gap; Millennium Development Goals 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

By Victoria Melhado , Women Deliver 100 Young Leader “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead Today, I say proudly that nurses are changing the world. Women Deliver 100 Young Leader Victoria...

Community Mobilizer in South Sudan Helps Women Survive Childbirth

By Ann LoLordo, Jhpiego Lanyi, South Sudan – Not much can keep Mary Rose Dalaka from ensuring pregnant women in this verdant farming community receive the lifesaving care they need to survive childbirth. When the motorbike she was riding on got stuck in knee-high mud, this nurse-midwife hopped off...

Health Workers Count – From Catch Phrase To Bold Vision

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition From the halls of the United Nations, to the set of Good Morning America, to the cheers from 75,000 gathered for a concert in Central Park – a common refrain reverberated in New York City last week: “health workers count.” Now, the global health...

Ensuring health workforce takes its place at center of global health architecture

By Richard Seifman, Consultant, IntraHealth International Courtesy IntraHealth International NOTE: This piece was originally posted on the IntraHealth Global Health Blog. Every so often, a prevailing system or approach changes dramatically. Small changes and tweaks to the status quo give way to a...

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