The Global Health Workforce Should Be at the Center of New White House Initiative

By Janet Muriuki, Senior director of health workforce development (interim) ; David Bryden, Director of the Frontline Health Workers Coalition and senior policy and advocacy advisor at IntraHealth International Babito, a medical lab technologist at Westlands Medical Center in Kenya, takes COVID-19 patient samples and stores them before they are taken to the lab for testing. Phot by Edwin Joe for IntraHealth International.February 10, 2022As the White House considers launching a new initiative to strengthen the global health workforce around the world, I sat down with Janet Muriuki, a doctor and health workforce expert from Kenya who serves asIntraHealth International’s interim director of health workforce development and Kenya country director.We talked about what she thinks the Biden Administration needs to consider in order to help build a strong and sustainable health workforce in Africa.DB: How could this new White House initiative lead to more high-quality health care in Africa?JM: To improve quality of care in Africa and beyond, the US initiative should focus on three things: Health workers must be trained adequately to implement high-quality services and include quality improvement and management approaches to address bottlenecks and challenges I have seen partners come in and do ad hoc quality improvement for teams at health facilities, but is there a reporting structure upwards to the national level? Quality management units need to be se...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Health workforce development Policy & Advocacy Health Workers Source Type: news