PHA-Exch> Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, 2-7 March 2008, Kampala

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Vern Weitzel <vern at coombs.anu.edu.au>
crossposted from: "[health-vn discussion group]" <health-vn at cairo.anu.edu.au
>
From: Neil Pakenham-Walsh, UK <Neil.Pakenham-Walsh at ghi-net.org>
From: Eric Friedman, Senior Global Health Policy Advisor
Physicians for Human Rights USA, Website:
http://www.physiciansforhumanrights.org


As many of you know, the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) will be
holding the first Global Forum on Human Resources for Health early next
year, in Kampala, Uganda, March 2-7, 2008. I strongly encourage you to
register for the Forum, and if you have health workforce-related
lessons, perspectives, and experiences to share, to consider submitting
an abstract. Abstracts are due at the end of the year, December 31,
2007. Registration is due a month later, by January 31, 2008. I
encourage early registration. There will be some funds available to
support travel expenses for the Forum.

A mix of activities should make the Forum a valuable experience for all
participants, including panels, skills-building workshops, and an "HRH
capacity marketplace," where different organizations will be able to
share their work and help develop the connections and networks that can
help individuals and countries overcome barriers in their efforts to
strengthen the health workforce. The Forum will also be an important
opportunity to talk to policymakers about what they are doing - and what
they need to be doing - to strengthen the health workforce to as to
dramatically improve people's health. For more on the Forum, please
see the GHWA website at: http://www.ghwa.org/

The Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI), which is the civil
society-led network of the Alliance, is planning to hold several skills
building workshops that we anticipate will be of particular interest to
civil society and health workers, in particular on advocacy, on
incorporating human rights into health workforce plans, and on
macroeconomic literacy. Other likely skills building workshops should
also be of much interest, such as on using the Global Fund to support
health systems strengthening and scaling up to universal access to HIV
services.

I encourage you to share this information with colleagues, including
NGOs and health workers, who might be interested in attending the Forum.
A large part of the success of the Forum will depend on what sort of
energy in creates towards moving from serious global attention to the
health workforce crisis to where we need to be: serious global action.
A strong civil society voice at the Forum and beyond is integral to
making that happen.

The Forum will also introduce the Roadmap (Global Action Plan) on Human
Resources for Health. That Roadmap is presently being developed, and
should be a guide to what governments and other actors need to do to
address the health workforce crisis, a basis for holding various actors
accountable for taking the actions necessary to address the crisis, and
an impetus for action. If you are interested in providing feedback to
GHWA on what this Roadmap should contain, please let me know, and I can
send you additional information.

More information on registration and the call for papers is below.


Call for papers:
http://www.who.int/entity/workforcealliance/forum/GHWA_Forum_Call_For_Papers/en/index.html

Deadline: December 31, 2007

Registration:
http://www.who.int/entity/workforcealliance/forum/GHWA_Forum_Registration/en/index.html

Deadline: January 31, 2008

Call for papers

A call is now made for submission of abstracts for presentation during
the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. The abstracts
should present experiences, lessons learnt and/or other intriguing new
information that contribute to the achievement of the forum objectives
and should be developed under any of the following Forum Themes:

* Leadership
* Education, Training and Skill mix
* Migration and Retention
* Financing
* Management
* Partnerships and linking up for action

Once abstracts have been received, they will be subjected to review by
the Forum Programme Team and the respective authors will be advised on
the outcome. It is, therefore, essential to comply fully with the
deadline provided below and the need for provision of detailed contact
addresses of the principal/corresponding author of each abstract.

Authors have a choice of either making oral presentation of their work
during the breakout sessions on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th March,
2008 or presenting summaries of their abstracts during the multi-day
non-stop poster presentations. Abstracts accepted for presentation will
be included in the final 2008 Forum programme, a publication that will
be distributed to all registered participants.

SPECIFIC GUIDELINES
* Abstracts should be structured with clear titles.
* Should provide names of all authors, their position titles,
institutional affiliation and email addresses. Indicate the name of the
corresponding author with full contact information.
* Abstracts should outline key information on the presentation
including context, objectives, methods, new findings, conclusions and/or
lessons learnt.
* Abstracts must be original contributions.
* Abstracts should be submitted in either English or French, and be
limited to 300 words.
* During submission, authors should indicate the theme under which the
paper has been prepared and their preference for presentation (oral or
poster presentation).

How to submit?
Abstracts should be submitted to the Forum Organizing Committee (FOC)
via email by 31 December 2007.

Submit your paper by email:
ghwaforum at who.int
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