New Chair of Frontline Health Workers Coalition Encourages Focus on Women ’s Empowerment, Economic Growth

March 19, 2019Kate Greene of Abt Associates is the newest chair of theFrontline Health Workers Coalition’s member-led steering committee.IntraHealth International has led the coalition ’s secretariat since 2012.Greene, a health workforce specialist with a strong history of policy and advocacy work, will build on the coalition ’s years of work to urge greater and more strategic US investment in frontline health workers around the world and solidify global policies that support these workers to provide high-quality health services to every community.“We are now seeing the importance of frontline health workers reflected in a number of strategies and reports across the US government and global institutions,” Greene says. “We are now the go-to coalition for global health policymakers addressing human resources for health and for health syst ems. I think that’s a really great achievement.”Since its inception in 2012, the coalition has advocated for greater and more strategic investment in frontline health workers in low- and middle-income countries as a cost-effective way to save lives and foster a healthier, safer, and more prosperous world. During that time, the first ever global strategy on the health workforce (Workforce 2030) was adopted, a specific target on strengthening the health workforce was included in the Sustainable Development Goals, the US government has made several new commitments across US global health programs, and new US legislative requiremen...

Source: IntraHealth International - March 19, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: Policy & Advocacy Source Type: news